Intersectional Inferiorities: Explorations of the Intersectional in Euripidean and Ovidian poetry

交叉的自卑：欧里庇得斯和奥维德诗歌中交叉的探索

• 批准号: 2732839
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2732839
• 关键词: Intersectional; Inferiorities; Explorations; Euripidean; Ovidian

Previous scholarship abundantly examined how Euripidean tragedies challenge established hierarchies, yet did not examine their intersection. For instance, Goff separately analyses the thematic focuses in 'Trojan Women' on class, race, and gender (Goff 2009), yet refuses to investigate the thematic interconnection. While Allan rightly notices that the comparison between Andromache and Hermione in 'Andromache' is articulated with regard to their gender, and that it is further complicated by the recurrent discussion on what being barbarian means (Allan 2000), he does not proceed to unravel such complication. Following Roselli (2007), who provides a partial approach to intersectionality by investigating the overlap of gender and class in Euripides, I propose to investigate the intersection of these issues in 'Andromache', 'Trojan Women', 'Hecuba', and 'Bacchae', also including understudied, fragmentary plays of Euripides such as 'Andromeda' and 'Hypsipyle'. By separately analysing single hierarchies, scholarship, I argue, risks offering only a partial reading of these tragedies, especially those where all three hierarchical discourses simultaneously figure as crucial and underlying themes. I ask why this intersection appears to recur in Euripides' characters; if there is any such a thing as an awareness of how hierarchies intersect to create layers of oppression or foster solidarity between the oppressed; if intersectionality entails implications for the interplay of sameness and difference often noticed in Euripidean drama (Goldhill 1988); if, as it is currently happening in modern social theory, exploring intersected hierarchies rather than one at a time can 'broaden and deepen understandings of human life and behaviour' (Hill-Collins, Bilge 2020). Given the frequently noticed interrelation between Euripidean and Ovidian poetry, it will be of interest to analyse how Ovid handles Euripidean intersectional hierarchies. His 'Heroides' furnish a tantalising parallel to Euripides both because of their thematic affinities and because they give these 'inferior' characters a chance to speak (Curley 2013). I am minded to analyse how Ovid exploits the affinity between the tragic code and the elegiac one, specifically for their shared simultaneous exploration of gender, class, and race. The comparison of Euripides and Ovid necessarily responds to the final plea of Matzner to extend the intersectional analysis of the 'weaker voice' to literature other than Latin (Matzner 2018) to identify structural peculiarities of literary intersectionality. In fact, the ultimate aim of my doctoral research consists in entertaining whether a literary theory of intersectionality could be formulated at all in its application to classical texts and shed light on the partiality of previous feminist, post-colonialist, and Marxist literary approaches.My research then promises to have a significant impact not only on classical studies, but also on literary theory, and to stand in a relationship of mutual support with social sciences. The relationship I envision between my research and social sciences is one of mutual enrichment and reciprocal insight. I ask, for instance, whether intersections of gender, class, and race are further complicated by the addition of other hierarchies. Asking this means progressing along with social sciences, for the breadth of 'intersection' is one of the crucial issues in contemporary studies of intersectionality (Lutz 2015; Ludvig 2006). Because of the fundamentally interdisciplinary nature of my research, I am determined to make great use of the resources provided by TORCH, specifically through the Intersectional Humanities Programme. Through the broad range of critical conversations it promotes, both within and outside academia, Intersectional Humanities constitutes support for the development of my doctoral research that is globally unparalleled.

以前的学术研究大量研究欧里庇得斯悲剧如何挑战既定的等级制度，但没有研究他们的交叉点。例如，戈夫分别分析了《特洛伊妇女》中关于阶级、种族和性别的主题重点（戈夫，2009），但拒绝调查主题的相互联系。虽然艾伦正确地注意到，在《安德洛玛刻》中安德洛玛刻和赫敏之间的比较是关于他们的性别的，而且由于反复出现的关于野蛮人意味着什么的讨论而进一步复杂化（艾伦2000），他没有继续解开这种复杂性。Roselli（2007）通过研究欧里庇得斯的性别和阶级的重叠，提供了一种部分的交叉性方法，我建议研究这些问题在“Andromache”，“Trojan Women”，“Hecuba”和“Bacchae”中的交叉点，也包括欧里庇得斯的未充分研究的片段戏剧，如“Andromeda”和“Hypsipyle”。我认为，通过单独分析单一的等级制度，学术研究有可能只提供对这些悲剧的部分阅读，特别是那些所有三个等级制度话语同时作为关键和潜在主题的悲剧。我问为什么这种交叉在欧里庇得斯的人物中反复出现;是否有这样一种意识，即等级制度如何交叉以创造压迫层或促进被压迫者之间的团结;交叉性是否意味着欧里庇得斯戏剧中经常注意到的相同和差异的相互作用（Goldhill 1988）;如果像现代社会理论中目前发生的那样，探索社会等级制度而不是一次一个，可以“扩大和加深对人类生活和行为的理解”（Hill-Collins，Bilge 2020）。由于经常注意到欧里庇得斯和奥维德诗歌之间的相互关系，这将是有趣的分析奥维德如何处理欧里庇得斯交叉层次。他的“英雄”提供了一个诱人的平行欧里庇得斯既因为他们的主题亲和力，因为他们给了这些“劣等”人物一个说话的机会（柯利2013）。我想分析奥维德是如何利用悲剧代码和挽歌代码之间的亲和力，特别是他们对性别、阶级和种族的共同同时探索。欧里庇得斯和奥维德的比较必然回应了Matzner的最终请求，即将“较弱声音”的交叉分析扩展到拉丁文以外的文学（Matzner 2018），以确定文学交叉性的结构特点。事实上，我博士研究的最终目的在于探讨交叉性的文学理论是否能在经典文本中得到应用，并对先前的女性主义、后殖民主义和马克思主义文学方法的混乱有所启发。我的研究不仅对经典研究，而且对文学理论，要与社会科学保持相互支持的关系。我设想我的研究和社会科学之间的关系是相互丰富和相互洞察力之一。例如，我会问，性别、阶级和种族的交叉是否会因为其他等级制度的加入而进一步复杂化。提出这一问题意味着与社会科学一起沿着前进，因为“交叉”的广度是当代交叉性研究的关键问题之一（Lutz 2015; Ludvig 2006）。由于我的研究基本上是跨学科的，我决心充分利用TORCH提供的资源，特别是通过跨学科人文计划。通过广泛的关键对话，它促进了学术界内外，交叉人文学科构成了我的博士研究是全球无与伦比的发展的支持。