Representations of Muslim Masculinities in Contemporary British and American Diaspora Novels

本项目主要关注当代英美侨民小说中穆斯林男性气概的表现。这项研究旨在揭示围绕男子气概的规范性价值观和社会实践如何进入叙事，以及它们如何在人物对各种散居背景下的日常生活的描述中传达关于男子气概和性的文化、社会和宗教规范。将男子气概视为一个身份范畴，与年龄、性取向、种族和阶级交织在一起，具有话语和表演效果，入选的小说将生活在海外的穆斯林人物描绘为高度复杂的交叉主题，挑战性别规范，并使其成为问题。尽管散居海外的穆斯林的形象在当代文化和文学研究中获得了相当大的知名度，但拟议的项目在处理散居海外的男性时避免了顺式性别和以同性恋为中心的阅读，并提供了包括异性恋、同性恋和跨性别者在内的移民经历的更微妙的描述。散居海外的穆斯林角色在他们的性别行为和与宗教的关系中占据了不稳定的空间。在对酷儿交叉性的建构主义方法的影响下，这个项目旨在探索(I)男性气概在当代散居文学中被表达、体现和表现的方式，以及(Ii)穆斯林人物成为社会批评的代理人。预测这个项目的问题包括：英语文学中的穆斯林男性气概如何使性别、宗教、散居海外和性的交叉操作复杂化？性别和性的流散体验中的流动性和约束条件是什么？穆斯林男子气概如何与身份政治的国家和跨国背景相关？当代英语小说中穆斯林男子气概的表现如何受到批评？拟议项目的理论框架将有助于(I)英语文学批评，(Ii)侨民研究，(Iii)性别研究，和(Iv)跨国性行为研究。

This project focuses on the representations of Muslim masculinities in contemporary British and American diaspora novels. The study aims to reveal how normative values and social practices around masculinity enter narratives, as well as how they communicate cultural, social, and religious norms of masculinity and sexuality in characters' accounts of daily life in various diasporic contexts. Treating masculinity as an identity category with discursive and performative effects operating in intersection with age, sexuality, ethnicity, and class, the selected novels represent Muslim characters living in diaspora as highly complex intersectional subjects challenging and problematizing gender norms. Although the figure of the Muslim diasporic subject has gained considerable visibility in contemporary cultural and literary studies, the proposed project avoids cis-gendered and gay-centred readings when dealing with diasporic masculinities, and offers a more nuanced account of migrant experiences that is inclusive of heterosexual, queer and trans characters. The diasporic Muslim characters occupy fluid spaces in both their gendered behaviours and their relationships with religion. Shaped by a constructivist approach to queer intersectionality, this project aims to explore the ways in which (i) masculinities are expressed, embodied, and performed in contemporary diaspora literature, and (ii) the Muslim characters become the agents of social critique. Questions predicating this project include:How do Muslim masculinities in Anglophone literature complicate the intersectional operations of gender, religion, diaspora, and sexuality?What are the conditions of fluidity and constraint in the diasporic experiences of gender and sexuality? How do Muslim masculinities relate to national and transnational contexts of identity politics?How are the representations of Muslim masculinities in contemporary Anglophone novel received critically?The theoretical framework of the proposed project will contribute to the fields of (i) Anglophone literary criticism, (ii) diaspora studies, (iii) gender studies, and (iv) transnational sexuality studies.