Becoming Native: Settler-Colonial Life Writing in Israel/Palestine and South Africa

我的研究旨在探索20世纪犹太-以色列和南非白人的生活写作，探索在谈判定居者主体性中自我叙述的文学策略。通过分析诸如“土著”、“归属”和“家”等概念，并阅读以色列/巴勒斯坦和南非代表的文化政治，我将重点关注作家与“空间”的关系，探讨作家如何利用生活写作来想象、表达和叙述他们自己的“位置”。运用比较方法，整合生活写作研究、定居者-殖民地研究和档案工作，将揭示定居者身份的全球共性，以及更特殊的地方差异。更好地理解定居者身份的动机和形成将推动定居者-殖民地研究超越定居者/土著二分法，并为定居者-殖民地的非殖民化提供具体途径。

My research sets to explore 20th century Jewish-Israeli and white South African life writing, exploring literary strategies of self-narration in negotiating settler subjectivity. Focusing on the writers' affiliation to 'space' by analysing notions such as 'indigeneity', 'belonging' and 'home', and read against the cultural politics of representation in Israel/Palestine and South Africa, I will explore how writers utilise life writing to imagine, articulate and narrate their own 'locations'. Applying a comparative methodology, integrating life writing studies, settler-colonial studies, and archival work will reveal global commonalities in settler identities, alongside more idiosyncratic local variations. Better understating settler identity's motivations and formation will advance settler-colonial studies to think beyond the settler/native dichotomy and offer concrete paths towards the decolonisation of the settler-colony.