Representations of Muslim Masculinities in Contemporary British and American Diaspora Novels

当代英美侨民小说中穆斯林男子气概的表现

• 批准号: 2887802
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 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-2887802
• 关键词: Representations; Muslim; Masculinities; Contemporary; British

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.

本项目主要研究当代英美散居小说中穆斯林男子气概的表现。该研究旨在揭示围绕男性气质的规范价值观和社会实践如何进入叙事，以及它们如何在各种散居背景下的人物日常生活中传达男性气质和性行为的文化、社会和宗教规范。这些小说将男性气概视为一种身份范畴，其话语和表演效果与年龄、性别、种族和阶级相交叉，这些小说将散居海外的穆斯林人物描绘成高度复杂的交叉主题，挑战和质疑性别规范。尽管穆斯林流散主体的形象在当代文化和文学研究中获得了相当大的关注，但在处理流散的男性特征时，拟议的项目避免了顺性别和以同性恋为中心的阅读，并提供了一个更细致入微的移民经历，包括异性恋、酷儿和跨性别角色。流散的穆斯林角色在他们的性别行为和他们与宗教的关系中占据着流动的空间。通过对酷儿交叉性的建构主义方法的塑造，该项目旨在探索(i)男性气质在当代散居文学中的表达、体现和表现方式，以及（ii）穆斯林角色成为社会批判的代理人。预测这个项目的问题包括：英语文学中的穆斯林男性是如何使性别、宗教、散居和性的交叉操作复杂化的？在性别和性的流散经验中，流动性和约束的条件是什么？穆斯林男性是如何与国家和跨国背景下的身份政治联系起来的？当代英语小说中穆斯林男子气概的表现是如何受到批评的？拟议项目的理论框架将有助于(i)英语文学批评，（ii）散居研究，（iii）性别研究和（iv）跨国性研究领域。