Migration and transcultural memory: literature, film and the social life of media

这个项目对媒介、跨文化和记忆的交叉感兴趣。研究围绕着移民的经历如何在今天的文学和电影中表现出来，跨越地理和文化边界传播，从而有可能成为中介跨文化记忆实践的焦点。该项目希望将记忆研究（近年来见证了“跨文化转向”）与移民和侨民研究以及后殖民研究结合起来，特别关注媒体理论和叙事学。它有三个主要目的：1)详细研究作为跨文化记忆媒介的英语移民小说：这些文本如何在跨文化空间中表现个人和集体记忆？哪些叙事特征有助于它们作为跨越既定界限的记忆载体的潜在影响？2)移民电影作为跨文化记忆媒介的详细研究；这也是关注媒体特定形式的表现及其潜在影响；3)小说和电影在社会星座内的一致语境化，在那里它们被用作跨文化记忆的媒介。以“媒体的社会生活”的公式为出发点，这一部分的研究是关于全球传播的文本和图像的旅行和本地化，关于它们在特定的社会和媒体环境中的嵌入性，在这些环境中，它们被实现并履行某些（可能是发散的）功能。

This project is interested in the intersections of media, transculturality, and memory. The research revolves around the question of how experiences of migration are represented in today's literature and cinema, circulated across geographic and cultural borders, and thus potentially become the focus of a mediated transcultural memory practice. The project wants to combine memory studies (which has witnessed a 'transcultural turn' in recent years) with migration and diaspora studies and postcolonial studies, with a special focus on media theory and narratology. It has three main aims: 1) a detailed study of Anglophone novels of migration as media of transcultural memory: how do those texts represent individual and collective memory in a transcultural space? which narrative features contribute to their potential effect as a carrier of memory across established boundaries? 2) a detailed study of migrant cinema as a medium of transcultural memory; this, too, with a focus on media-specific forms of representation and their potential effects; 3) a consistent contextualization of novels and movies within the very social constellations, where they are used as media of transcultural memory. Taking the formula of the 'social life of media' as a point of departure, this part of the research is about the travels and the localisations of globally circulating texts and images, about their embeddedness within specific social and media contexts, in which they are actualized and fulfil certain (and possibly diverging) functions.