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Research Leave Creating Memorials, Building Identities:The Politics of Memory in the Black Atlantic

研究留下创造纪念碑，建立身份：黑大西洋的记忆政治

基本信息

批准号：
AH/F005660/1
负责人：
Alan Rice
金额：
$ 3.43万
依托单位：
University of Central Lancashire
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2007 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FF005660%2F1
关键词：
Research Leave Creating Memorials Building

项目摘要

This project follows on from my critically acclaimed debut monograph Radical Narratives of the Black Atlantic (Continuum: 2003). The book seems to have provided much needed multi-dimensional textual examples to help embellish a contemporary post-national interpretation of black cultures in the diaspora. My first book, however, only scratched the surface of a variety of interesting transnational case studies that I believe would make an original follow-up study. Two areas in particular were touched on in my first monograph but are ripe for more extensive coverage / ideas of memorials and memorialisation and an interesting group of contemporary visual arts across the diaspora. These would be foregrounded in this new study. Since Toni Morrison's 1989 observation that there was an almost complete lack of memorialisation of African American history and particularly of the slave trade in America and beyond, there has been a marked improvement with memorials and memorial projects being initiated in Europe, the Americas and Africa. My new study will investigate several of these projects through a series of case studies which will, following Morrison, interpret widely what a memorial can mean. So that museum exhibitions, musical, visual and literary texts relating to the middle passage and its aftermath will be discussed alongside more traditional memorials. Pierre Nora's concept of lieux de memoire will be utilised to show how texts and sites become important spaces for memorialisation, whilst Paul Ricoeur's magisterial study Memory, History and Forgetting will provide a series of philosophical questions and arguments to rub against the grain of the various memorial texts. The dynamic interventions of African Atlantic critics such as Dionne Brand, Caryl Phillips, Lubaina Himid, James Baldwin, Wole Soyinka and Toni Morrison who have talked about the inter-relationship of memory history and memorials will be used to widen out what has often been a Eurocentric discussion of memorialisation in Anglo-American academia. On contemporary visual arts I will show the redolence of the middle passage and its consequences for a variety of artists whose political agenda is to remember this traumatic past in a cultural context which all too often elides it. I will show how artists from Europe, the Americas and Africa exhibit Transatlantic, Trans-national linkages in symbolism and ideology across a range of work and talk back to histories of race, class, sex and ethnic exploitation and use that history to talk to contemporary discussions of these issues. As academics across a range of disciplines respond to globalisation, postnationalism and postmodern fragmented identity, a study that deals with African Atlantic cultures and their history through these prisms is not only timely but vital. This study will interrogate African Atlantic cultures in their full historical and cross-cultural contexts. Through a series of case studies ideas of memory and memorialisation will be used to discuss contemporary artistic literary and musical responses to slavery and its aftermath in America, Europe and to a lesser extent the Caribbean and Africa. The various texts will be thoroughly contextualised and placed in a theoretical context of the black Atlantic established by Paul Gilroy in the wake of the work of such theorists as Stuart Hall, Hal Roach, Immanuel Wallerstein and Edouard Glissant that moves us to an intercultural and transnational approach to diasporan cultures. The book will use a series of interviews with artists used in the case studies to provide continuity throughout the study. Questions asked will include the efficacy of memorials, the difficulties of memorialising invisibilised presences, the intersection of class, gender and race and the politics of memorialisation. Though the case studies are diverse, the focus will remain on the issue of memorialisation throughout.

这个项目是从我广受好评的处女作《黑大西洋的激进叙事》（Continuum：2003）开始的。这本书似乎提供了急需的多维文本的例子，以帮助美化在散居黑人文化的当代后民族的解释。然而，我的第一本书只是触及了各种有趣的跨国案例研究的表面，我相信这些案例会成为一个原创的后续研究。特别是在我的第一本专著中涉及到两个领域，但对于纪念和纪念的更广泛的报道/想法以及散居各地的当代视觉艺术的有趣群体来说，这两个领域已经成熟。这些将在这项新研究中得到重视。自从托妮·莫里森1989年观察到美国和其他地区几乎完全没有纪念非裔美国人的历史，特别是奴隶贸易以来，欧洲、美洲和非洲的纪念馆和纪念项目有了明显的改善。我的新研究将通过一系列案例研究来调查其中的几个项目，这些案例研究将遵循莫里森的观点，广泛地解释纪念馆的含义。因此，博物馆展览，音乐，视觉和文学文本有关的中间通道及其后果将被讨论一起更传统的纪念。皮埃尔·诺拉的回忆录概念将被用来展示文本和遗址如何成为纪念的重要空间，而保罗·利科的magnetic研究记忆，历史和遗忘将提供一系列哲学问题和论点，以摩擦各种纪念文本的颗粒。动态干预的非洲大西洋评论家，如迪翁品牌，卡里尔菲利普斯，Lubaina Himid，詹姆斯·鲍德温，沃尔·莫林卡和托尼莫里森谁谈到了记忆的历史和纪念馆的相互关系将被用来扩大什么往往是在英美学术界的纪念欧洲中心的讨论。关于当代视觉艺术，我将展示中间通道的芬芳及其对各种艺术家的影响，这些艺术家的政治议程是在一个文化背景下记住这个创伤性的过去，而这个文化背景往往忽略了它。我将展示来自欧洲，美洲和非洲的艺术家如何在一系列作品中展示跨大西洋，跨国家的象征主义和意识形态联系，并与种族，阶级，性剥削和种族剥削，并利用历史来谈论当代对这些问题的讨论。随着一系列学科的学者对全球化，后民族主义和后现代碎片化身份的回应，通过这些棱镜处理非洲大西洋文化及其历史的研究不仅及时而且至关重要。这项研究将在其完整的历史和跨文化背景下询问非洲大西洋文化。通过一系列的案例研究，记忆和纪念的想法将被用来讨论当代艺术文学和音乐对奴隶制及其在美国，欧洲和加勒比和非洲的后果的反应。各种文本将被彻底语境化，并置于保罗·吉尔罗伊在斯图尔特·霍尔，哈尔·罗奇，伊曼纽尔·沃勒斯坦和爱德华·格利桑等理论家的工作之后建立的黑色大西洋的理论背景中，这将我们带到了对散居文化的跨文化和跨国方法。这本书将使用一系列的采访艺术家在案例研究中使用，以提供整个研究的连续性。提出的问题将包括纪念馆的功效，纪念无形存在的困难，阶级，性别和种族的交叉以及纪念的政治。虽然案例研究多种多样，但重点始终是纪念问题。