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

我的研究集探讨20世纪世纪犹太以色列和白色南非的生活写作，探讨自我叙事在谈判定居者的主体性文学策略。通过分析“本土性”，“归属感”和“家”等概念，并对以色列/巴勒斯坦和南非的代表性文化政治进行阅读，重点关注作家对“空间”的从属关系，我将探索作家如何利用生活写作来想象，表达和叙述自己的“位置”。应用比较方法，整合生活写作研究，定居者殖民研究和档案工作将揭示定居者身份的全球共性，以及更多的特质的地方变化。更好地理解定居者身份的动机和形成将推进定居者殖民研究，超越定居者/本地二分法的思考，并提供具体的道路，实现定居者殖民地的非殖民化。

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.