De-)constructing cultural colonialisms: A narratological investigation of Austria-Hungary's inner and extra-European discourses of identity and differ

解构文化殖民主义：对奥匈帝国内部和外部欧洲身份和差异话语的叙事学调查

• 批准号: 2877091
• 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: 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-2877091
• 关键词: De; constructing; cultural; colonialisms; narratological

In multi-ethnic Austria-Hungary, colonialism manifested itself less as socio-economic exploitation overseas than as internal power structures, reflected and enforced by cultural discourses. Despite the early-established paradigm that these cultural narratives were the primary manifestation of colonialism in Austria-Hungary (Ruthner 2002: 99), my research is one of the first projects investigating how narrative form in Germanophone writing shaped Habsburg's cultural colonialisms. Exploring how colonialist power structures in Central Europe were expressed or challenged by aesthetic forms (Olson and Copland 2016: 207), I will answer three research questions: RQ1: Which narrative patterns shaped Austria-Hungary's cultural colonialisms? RQ2: What was the potential of narrative form in undermining colonialist discourses within Habsburg's Germanophone culture? RQ3: Can explorations of non-hegemonic aesthetics of sameness in Habsburg literature serve as a paradigm extension for postcolonial narrative studies? Project plan:Using Germanophone prose fiction alongside newspaper articles, I will investigate how narrative form in Habsburg culture shaped inner-European colonialisms and co-present narratives of colonialism overseas. My research will also explore in how far formal means were capable of undermining prevalent cultural colonialisms. In this context, less canonical works of multi-ethnic Germanophone Austro-Hungarian writers testify to an intersectional complexity that is only beginning to be explored (Bach 2016, Ruthner 2017: 305-9). Taking Deleuze and Guattari's conception of a 'minor practice of major language' (1986: 18) as a point of departure, I will analyse in how far formal 'minor' practices destabilised dominant colonialist discourses. Close reading constitutes the main methodological approach for the literary analyses; complemented by a quantitative newspaper analysis to identify larger patterns in the formal shaping of Habsburg's colonialist discourses. Capturing diachronic developments from 1850 to the 1930s, I will firstly compare realist writing preceding and following Austria-Hungary's 'Compromise' of 1867, with markers of ethnic difference gaining significance after this event. I will then analyse how modernist writers used narrative techniques to reflect and, to some extent, counter colonialist ideas underpinning growing ethno-national tensions until 1914. Lastly, my DPhil will explore colonialist discourses in retrospective post-war Habsburg novels, often seen to depict all-too peaceful (Spreicer 2021: 368) notions of the empire's multiculturality. Project aims and contributions:Austria-Hungary's unique context of multiple overlapping colonialist discourses (Stachel 2003: 260-61) will enable me to develop a nuanced methodology for narratologically oriented postcolonial studies. Almost exclusively focused on writing based on British extra-continental colonialism and its highly asymmetric power structures, such research has so far hardly modified existing narratological concepts (Heinen 2021: 22). My attention to narrative techniques emerging from the varied intermediary positions of multi-ethnic writers in Austria-Hungary promises to deliver new analytical categories to advance postcolonial narratology, providing a basis for investigating a colonialist politics of form that was central to European colonialist practices more widely. With recent warnings that the field's current fixation on cultural representations of difference inadvertently perpetuates colonialist binaries of identity and difference (Heinen 2021: 23-25), and as yet sceptical references to similarity as a potential concept for advancing Habsburg Studies (Ruthner 2017: 337), my DPhil will investigate whether formal structures within Habsburg literatures convey notions of sameness and community, exploring whether these concepts constitute productive extensions to analytical frameworks in postcolonial narrative research

在多种族的奥匈帝国中，殖民主义表现出的是在海外的社会经济剥削，而不是由文化论述反映和实施的内部权力结构。尽管早期建立的范式是这些文化叙事是奥地利 - 匈牙利殖民主义的主要体现（Ruthner 2002：99），但我的研究是研究德语叙事形式的第一个项目之一，该项目是如何在德国人写作形式的形式形式的形式。探索中欧的殖民主义力量结构是如何通过美学形式表达或挑战的（Olson and Copland 2016：207），我将回答三个研究问题：RQ1：哪些叙事模式塑造了奥地利 - 匈牙利的文化殖民主义？ RQ2：叙事形式在破坏哈布斯堡的德国人文化中的殖民主义话语中的潜力是什么？ RQ3：哈布斯堡文学中非霸权美学的探索可以作为后殖民叙事研究的范式扩展吗？项目计划：使用德语散文小说与报纸文章一起，我将研究哈布斯堡文化中的叙事形式如何塑造欧洲殖民主义的内部殖民主义和海外殖民主义的共同叙述。我的研究还将探索正式手段能够破坏普遍的文化殖民主义的程度。在这种情况下，多种族的德国人奥匈帝国作家的规范较少，证明了刚开始探索的交叉复杂性（Bach 2016，Ruthner 2017：305-9）。我将以德勒兹和瓜塔里的“主要语言实践”（1986：18）的概念为出发点，我将分析正式的“次要”实践破坏主导的殖民主义者的稳定范围。紧密阅读构成了文学分析的主要方法论方法；通过定量的报纸分析进行补充，以确定哈布斯堡殖民主义话语的正式塑造中的较大模式。从1850年到1930年代，我将首先比较前面的现实主义者在1867年的“妥协”之前比较现实主义者的写作，并在此事件发生后获得了差异的标志。然后，我将分析现代主义作家如何使用叙事技术来反思并在某种程度上进行反殖民主义的思想，直到1914年，越来越多的民族民族紧张局势为基础。项目的目标和贡献：奥匈帝国在多个重叠的殖民主义话语中的独特背景（Stachel 2003：260-61）将使我能够开发出一种细微的叙事学后殖民研究方法。此类研究几乎完全专注于基于英国英国大陆殖民主义及其高度不对称能力结构的写作，迄今为止，此类研究几乎没有修改现有的叙事概念（Heinen 2021：22）。我对叙事技术的关注来自奥地利 - 匈牙利多种族作家的各种中间位置，他们承诺将提供新的分析类别，以推动后殖民叙事学，为调查欧洲殖民主义实践的殖民主义形式政治提供了基础。 最近警告说，该领域目前对差异的文化表示形式的持续存在，无意间永久存在身份和差异的二进制（海因森2021：23-25），并且既定地提及相似性作为潜在的概念作为潜在的概念，以促进哈布斯堡研究（Ruthner 2017：337）探索这些概念是否构成后殖民叙事研究中分析框架的生产性扩展