Beyond the Margins: the Off-modern in the writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Violette Leduc.

超越边缘：西蒙·德·波伏娃和维奥莱特·勒杜克著作中的非现代。

• 批准号: 2873696
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2873696
• 关键词: Beyond; Margins; Off; modern; writings

In light of four key republished, posthumous, and previously overlooked works by French authors Simone de Beauvoir and Violette Leduc, this project re-evaluates these authors' depictions of female friendship, identity and sexuality through a new critical lens: theorist Svetlana Boym's concept the 'off-modern', providing an original intervention into Beauvoir-Leduc scholarship. The 'off-modern' reconsiders writings about 'unconventional' women's relationships/subjectivity, less as 'outlandish', but rather offering up new ways of understanding how women experience their selfhoods. My critical re-examination of literary/philosophical intra-female bonds changes scholarly understanding of Beauvoir-Leduc, by showing the wider philosophical significance of writings previously considered personal/off-limits to scholars. This research proposes a new examination of female subjectivity, sexuality, and friendship in Simone de Beauvoir and Violette Leduc's writings, exploring ethical and aesthetic questions about intra-female relationships (e.g., childhood/adulthood/posthumous). Little scholarship exists on the posthumous primary texts, which are semi-autobiographical writings, respectively relating to Beauvoir and Leduc's intensely intimate girlhood friendships. Due to (self-)censorship in the 1950s, 'Thérèse et Isabelle' (Leduc) was only published in 2000 and 'Les Inséparables' (Beauvoir) in 2020. With the release of new publications e.g. Beauvoir's 'Lettres d'amitié', republications e.g. Leduc's 'Trésors à prendre', and current LGBTQ+ and feminist writings on Beauvoir (by Manon Garcia, Édouard Louis and Caroline Criado-Perez), these authors are rapidly gaining (reclaiming for Beauvoir) public-academic attention. A study is urgently required into this new material as it illustrates a more complex image of the authors' understanding of 'womanhood' and contributes to our comprehension of 'womanhood' today. My analysis begins through Svetlana Boym's interpretative theory, the 'off-modern', which explores the philosophical in the 'everyday'. Boym's off-modern theory is invaluable since it evaluates 'feminine' friendships, intimacy and perspectivism in censored or marginalised stories from a 21st-century female viewpoint. It therefore is indispensable for revealing detailed insight on our authors' intimate texts, allowing us to better understand their positions on and expressions of subjectivity, previously hidden through censorship. The chosen texts are significant as they address women's subjectivity/relationships in a complementary and revelatory manner. My reading redresses blindspots in criticism, and reconsiders our standpoint of the authors. Chapter 1 analyses intimate childhood friendships through the self/Other duality. This shifts scholarship's focus from the clichéd Beauvoir-Sartre binary onto a Simone-Zaza pairing (Zaza was Beauvoir's childhood friend) and reassesses Thérèse-Isabelle's censored relationship, thus uncovering unconventional intimate friendships that 'linger in margins' (Jefferson 2016). Chapter 2 explores how narrative perspectives alter the authors' perceptions of their selfhood in LB/MJFR through depictions of the past e.g., the Other becoming a past-self. These autobiographies illuminate the authors' changing relationships with women as their subjectivity shifts through time. Chapter 3 examines how the authors' selfhood and relationships transform when travelling as they encounter new situations/people. TP/AJJ offer new findings on Beauvoir and Leduc's considerations of how subjectivity relates to space.

根据法国作家西蒙娜·德·波伏娃和维奥莱特·勒杜克的四部重要的再版、死后出版和以前被忽视的作品，本项目通过一个新的批评透镜：理论家斯韦特兰娜·博伊姆的“非现代”概念，重新评估这些作者对女性友谊、身份和性的描述，为波伏娃-勒杜克奖学金提供了一个原始的干预。“非现代”重新考虑了关于“非传统”女性关系/主体性的作品，不那么“古怪”，而是提供了理解女性如何体验自我的新方法。我对文学/哲学女性内部纽带的批判性重新审视改变了学术界对Beauvoir-Leduc的理解，通过展示以前被认为是个人/学者禁区的著作的更广泛的哲学意义。本研究提出了一个新的研究女性主体性，性，和友谊在西蒙娜德波伏娃和维奥莱特勒杜克的作品，探讨伦理和美学问题的女性内部关系（例如，童年/成年/死后）。关于其死后的主要文本，即半自传体作品，分别涉及波伏娃和勒杜克的少女时代的亲密友谊，几乎没有什么学术研究。由于20世纪50年代的（自我）审查，《泰蕾兹与伊莎贝尔》（勒杜克）于2000年才出版，《无法比拟的人》（波伏娃）于2020年出版。随着新出版物的发行，如波伏娃的“Lettres d 'amitié”，重新出版物，如Leduc的“Trésors à prendre”，以及当前的LGBTQ+和女权主义者关于波伏娃的著作（由Manon Garcia，Edouard Louis和Caroline Criado-Perez撰写），这些作者正在迅速获得（重新获得波伏娃）公众学术界的关注。迫切需要对这种新材料进行研究，因为它说明了作者对“女性”理解的更复杂的形象，并有助于我们今天对“女性”的理解。我的分析开始于Svetlana Boym的解释性理论，即“非现代”，它探讨了“日常”中的哲学。Boym的非现代理论是无价的，因为它从21世纪女性的角度评估了被审查或边缘化的故事中的“女性”友谊，亲密关系和透视主义。因此，它是必不可少的，以揭示我们的作者的亲密文本的详细见解，使我们能够更好地了解他们的立场和表达的主观性，以前通过审查隐藏。所选文本意义重大，因为它们以互补和启示的方式处理妇女的主体性/关系。我的阅读纠正了批评中的盲点，并重新考虑了我们对作者的立场。第一章通过自我/他者的二元性来分析童年时期的亲密友谊。这将学术界的关注点从陈腐的波伏娃-伊莎贝尔二进制转移到西蒙娜-扎扎配对（扎扎是波伏娃的童年朋友），并重新评估了泰蕾兹-伊莎贝尔的审查关系，从而揭示了“徘徊在边缘”的非传统亲密友谊（杰斐逊2016）。第二章探讨了叙事视角如何通过对过去的回顾来改变作者对自己的自我认知，他者变成了过去的自己。这些自传阐明了作者与女性的关系的变化，因为她们的主体性随着时间的推移而变化。第三章考察了作者在旅行中遇到新的情况/人时，自我和关系是如何转变的。TP/AJJ提供了新的发现，在波伏瓦和Leduc的考虑如何主观性与空间。