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

在多民族的奥匈帝国，殖民主义与其说表现为对海外的社会经济剥削，不如表现为通过文化话语反映和执行的内部权力结构。尽管早期建立的范式认为这些文化叙事是奥匈帝国殖民主义的主要表现形式（Ruthner 2002: 99），但我的研究是调查德语写作中的叙事形式如何塑造哈布斯堡文化殖民主义的首批项目之一。探索中欧的殖民主义权力结构是如何被美学形式表达或挑战的（奥尔森和科普兰2016:207），我将回答三个研究问题：RQ1：哪些叙事模式塑造了奥匈帝国的文化殖民主义？RQ2：在哈布斯堡的德语文化中，叙事形式在削弱殖民主义话语方面的潜力是什么？RQ3：哈布斯堡文学中非霸权的同一性美学的探索是否可以作为后殖民叙事研究的范式延伸？项目计划：使用德语散文小说旁边的报纸文章，我将调查如何叙事形式在哈布斯堡文化塑造欧洲内部的殖民主义和海外殖民主义共同呈现的叙述。我的研究还将探讨在多大程度上正式手段能够破坏流行的文化殖民主义。在这种背景下，多民族德裔奥匈作家的不太规范的作品证明了一种交叉性的复杂性，这种复杂性才刚刚开始被探索（Bach 2016, Ruthner 2017: 305-9）。以德勒兹和瓜塔里关于“主要语言的次要实践”（1986:18）的概念为出发点，我将分析正式的“次要”实践在多大程度上破坏了占主导地位的殖民主义话语的稳定。细读是文学分析的主要方法论；辅以定量的报纸分析，以确定哈布斯堡殖民主义话语正式形成的更大模式。从1850年到20世纪30年代的历时发展，我将首先比较1867年奥匈帝国“妥协”之前和之后的现实主义写作，以及种族差异的标志在此事件之后变得重要。然后，我将分析现代主义作家如何使用叙事技巧来反映，并在某种程度上反对殖民主义思想，这些思想支撑着直到1914年不断增长的种族与国家之间的紧张关系。最后，我的博士学位将探讨殖民主义话语在回顾战后哈布斯堡小说，经常看到描绘太和平（Spreicer 2021: 368）帝国的多元文化的概念。项目目标和贡献：奥匈帝国多重重叠殖民主义话语的独特背景（Stachel 2003: 260-61）将使我能够为叙事学导向的后殖民研究开发一种微妙的方法。这类研究几乎完全集中在基于英国大陆外殖民主义及其高度不对称的权力结构的写作上，迄今为止几乎没有修改现有的叙事学概念（Heinen 2021: 22）。我对奥匈帝国多民族作家在不同媒介地位下出现的叙事技巧的关注，有望为推进后殖民叙事学提供新的分析范畴，为更广泛地研究殖民主义形式政治提供基础，而这种形式政治对欧洲殖民主义的实践至关重要。最近有警告称，该领域目前对差异的文化表征的关注无意中延续了殖民主义对身份和差异的二元对立（Heinen 2021: 23-25），并且对相似性作为推进哈布斯堡研究的潜在概念持怀疑态度（Ruthner 2017）。337)，我的博士学位将调查哈布斯堡文学中的正式结构是否传达了同一性和社区的概念，探索这些概念是否构成后殖民叙事研究中分析框架的有效延伸