Self-Reflexive/Self-Confident Narratives: Textuality and Social Relevance in Contemporary US-American Culture

在过去的三年里，这个计划探索了军事博客，即派驻战区的士兵所写的博客，作为自信/自我反思叙事的语料库，也就是说，其正式的动态和文化工作是基于自信和自我反思的相互作用，使博客能够为当代社会参与战争和战争经验做出贡献。利用比较文化研究方法，将部落格与原住民战士文化联系起来，我们将部落格理论化为一种仪式叙事的实践，通过表演和同时反映仪式交流模式，可以发挥社会治疗作用。我们的研究表明，通过关注与军事博客密切相关但却在该类型参数之外展开的叙事实践来补充这个项目是至关重要的：关于退伍军人重返公民社会的仪式剧本，由各种媒体和模式主持的剧本，我们称之为“返乡场景”。“返乡场景”在不同的文本和表演形式中反复出现，与milblogs分享其对仪式叙事仪式的追索。此外，它与军事博客有一个顺序关系，立即关注军事博客预期的回归平民生活的时刻。因此，作为一个总体现象的一部分，军事博客和“返乡场景”的实例需要一起作为一种特征文化模式的表达进行审问，当代美国社会通过这种文化模式参与战争经验，并协商军事与公民社会之间的关系。对“返乡场景”选定形式的研究将与迄今为止对军事博客的研究相结合，重点关注它如何揭示关于战争经历的仪式叙事的媒介特定属性，以及为其提供信息的时间性效应（战争或返乡经验与其在叙事中的中介之间的时间关系）。

In the course of the last three years, this project has explored milblogs, weblogs written by soldiers during deployment to the war zone, as a corpus of self-confident / self-reflexive narratives - as a corpus, that is, whose formal dynamics and cultural work are predicated on an interplay of self-confidence and self-reflexivity that enables the blogs to contribute to contemporary social engagements with war and war experience. Drawing on a comparative cultural studies approach that correlates milblogs to Indigenous warrior cultures, we theorized milblogs as a practice of ceremonial storytelling which, by performing and simultaneously reflecting on ritual communicative patterns, can do socially therapeutic work. Our research has shown that is vital to complement the project by paying attention to narrative practices that are closely related to milblogs yet unfold outside the genre's parameters: ritual scripts about the return of veterans into civil society, scripts hosted by a variety of media and modes, that we call the "Homecoming Scenario." Iterated in diverse textual and performative formats, the "Homecoming Scenario" shares with milblogs its recourse to rituals of ceremonial storytelling. Moreover, it has a sequential relationship to milblogs, immediately attending to the moment of return to civilian life that milblogs prospectively anticipate. Parts of an overarching phenomenon, milblogs and instances of the "Homecoming Scenario" thus need to be interrogated together as expressions of a characteristic cultural mode by which contemporary US society engages with war experience and negotiates the relationship between military and civil society. Research on selected forms of the "Homecoming Scenario" is to be integrated with the research on milblogs conducted so far by focusing on the ways in which it throws into relief the media-specific properties of ceremonial storytelling about war experience and the temporality effects (temporal relationship between the experience of war or of homecoming and its mediation in storytelling) that inform it.