Reinterpreting Marianne North: life writing, botanical travel, and the legacies of empire

重新解读玛丽安·诺斯：生活写作、植物旅行和帝国遗产

• 批准号: 2773002
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Royal Holloway University of London
• 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-2773002
• 关键词: Reinterpreting; Marianne; North; life; writing

The reputation of Marianne North (1830-1890) rests largely on two projects completed in her final decade: the unique public gallery she established at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (designed to permanently display her botanical oil paintings and wood specimens), and her posthumously published life writing. This study aims to reinterpret these projects - North's work as a traveller, writer, artist, and gallery maker - by taking their colonial, intellectual, and social contexts as a key focus. In so doing, the study will examine the curatorial and historiographical challenges of narrating the life of a remarkable individual while at the same time engaging explicitly with the ways race, colonialism, class, and gender structured both the production of her work and its representation. In foregrounding issues of race, empire, and the colonial labour that enabled North's travels, the project will contribute to a wider (re)evaluation of Kew's colonial heritage and help inform plans for the gallery's reinterpretation. The project's findings will, through collaboration with non-HEIs such as the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), help to inform wider discussions among heritage organisations about how most appropriately to negotiate legacies of imperialism in their collections.

玛丽安·诺斯（Marianne North，1830-1890）的名声主要来自她在生命最后十年完成的两个项目：她在皇家植物园基尤建立的独特公共画廊（旨在永久展示她的植物油画和木材标本），以及她死后出版的生活写作。本研究旨在重新解释这些项目-北的工作作为一个旅行者，作家，艺术家和画廊制造商-通过采取他们的殖民，知识和社会背景作为一个重点。在这样做的时候，这项研究将探讨策展和史学的挑战，叙述一个显着的个人的生活，而在同一时间明确参与的方式，种族，殖民主义，阶级和性别结构都生产她的工作和它的代表。在突出种族，帝国和殖民劳工的问题，使北方的旅行，该项目将有助于更广泛的（重新）评估基尤的殖民遗产，并帮助通知画廊的重新解释计划。该项目的研究结果将通过与皇家地理学会（与英国地理学家研究所）等非高等教育机构的合作，帮助遗产组织更广泛地讨论如何最适当地在其收藏中谈判帝国主义遗产。