'Making' History: Archives and Activism in British Lesbian Literature, 1984-2003.

“创造”历史：英国女同性恋文学中的档案和行动主义，1984-2003。

• 批准号: 2891625
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: King's College London
• 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-2891625
• 关键词: Making; History; Archives; Activism; British

In the late 1980s, the children's book Jenny Lives With Eric and Martin served as the pretext for a homophobic public discourse, culminating in the introduction of Section 28, which explicitly centred literature as a site of LGBTQ+ identity and visibility. The moral panic around the 'acceptability of homosexuality as a pretended family relationship' was a direct reaction against a decade of feminist and LGBTQ+ activism around patriarchal andheteronormative social dynamics. This historical moment is where my research begins. Starting from this specific attack on queer literary expression and historical education, I aim to trace a network of lesbian authors who, in addition to their ongoing involvement in both queer and feminist activist spheres, attempted to resist the government-sanctioned suppression of queer visibility by rooting literary expression in an explicitly lesbian history. Built around archival approaches, I examine how these communities worked to construct historical narratives through discrete inclusions and exclusions.An understanding of this recent history is crucial to debates on queer and trans rights in the present. My research - rooted in archives, outlined below - will bring together work of textual recovery with a recontextualisation of lesbian fiction and lesbian literary production. The combination of archival and literary approaches enables me to re-examine the construction of queer history and to work on the recovery of novel perspectives. Archives not only reveal background on the conception and dissemination of literature, but illuminate the gaps of works which were not published or were subject to censorship. The potential of recovery demonstrates how this project will itself actively partake in the processes of historicisation and reconfiguration.Fundamentally, this project aims to learn from late 20th-century endeavours in LGBTQ+ literary history to consider the potential of a historical approach in tackling contemporary issues within intersectional feminist movements. While feminist publishing and history-making of this period have been subject to sustained critical attention, concurrent efforts of lesbian history have rarely been explored as a distinct project. By exploring a moment in time whose effects are still felt in Britain today, I aim to answer the question of how publishing networks facilitated the production and dissemination of specifically lesbian historical narratives. With a particular focus on literary history, I will consider how fictional work responded to this turn to historical grounding and represented archival and publishing efforts. These questions are tied together by an attention to the role of power dynamics and exclusionary ideologies in both the historical narratives themselves and their dissemination.

在1980年代后期，儿童书籍《珍妮与埃里克和马丁生活在一起》成为了同性恋恐惧症公共话语的借口，最终引入了第28节，该节明确将文学作为LGBTQ+身份和可见性的场所。围绕“同性恋作为一种假装的家庭关系的可接受性”的道德恐慌是对十年来女权主义和LGBTQ+行动主义的直接反应，这些行动主义围绕着父权制和异性恋规范的社会动态。这个历史性的时刻是我的研究开始的地方。从这个具体的攻击酷儿文学表达和历史教育，我的目标是跟踪网络的女同性恋作家，除了他们正在进行的参与酷儿和女权主义活动家领域，试图抵制政府批准的镇压酷儿的能见度扎根文学表达在一个明确的女同性恋历史。围绕档案的方法，我研究了这些社区如何通过离散的包容性和exclusions.A最近的历史的理解是至关重要的酷儿和跨性别权利在目前的辩论构建历史叙事。我的研究-植根于档案，概述如下-将把文本恢复工作与女同性恋小说和女同性恋文学作品的重新语境化结合起来。档案与文学的结合使我能够重新审视酷儿史的建构，并致力于小说视角的恢复。档案不仅揭示了文学概念和传播的背景，而且揭示了未出版或受审查的作品的空白。恢复的潜力表明了这个项目本身将如何积极参与历史化和重构的过程。从根本上说，这个项目的目的是从20世纪末LGBTQ+文学史的努力中学习，以考虑在跨部门女权运动中解决当代问题的历史方法的潜力。虽然这一时期的女性主义出版和历史制作一直受到持续的批评关注，但女同性恋历史的同时努力很少作为一个独特的项目进行探索。通过探索一个在今天的英国仍然能感受到影响的时刻，我的目标是回答出版网络如何促进特定女同性恋历史叙事的生产和传播的问题。特别关注文学史，我将考虑虚构作品如何回应这一转向历史基础，并代表档案和出版工作。这些问题是通过关注权力动态和排他性意识形态在历史叙事本身及其传播中的作用而联系在一起的。