Transatlantic Circulation and Transformation of Ideas:The Impact of the Enlightenment in Contemporary Franco-Caribbean Literatures

在跨大西洋的视角下，关于启蒙运动对法语加勒比地区的影响，我们关注知识的全球化流通，将其作为国际对话的核心。鉴于他们日益增长的文化和语言多样性，这些考虑在欧洲背景下将获得新的社会意义。在跨大陆的框架下对启蒙运动进行这样的研究，有可能加深理解，并指出可能的解决方案。我们的假设是，欧洲启蒙运动的革命潜力并没有在19世纪的非殖民化斗争中耗尽。相反，我们认为，启蒙时代形成的理想对欧洲以外的国家产生了影响，因为它们继续影响着后殖民社会的政治和文化发展。因为思想是循环的，而不是简单的采用，我们试图调查思想在法国-加勒比文学中被改编和修改的具体方式。重点将放在过去三十年，在此期间，加勒比文化理论，知识和文学的重新进口已经发生到欧洲。在重新评价启蒙运动的过程中，我们将受到三个问题的指导：1。与19世纪的法国-加勒比接受和西班牙裔美国启蒙运动相比，当代法国-加勒比文学描绘了哪种类型的新启蒙主义知识？自1804年海地独立以来，海外群岛（马提尼克岛、瓜德罗普岛、圭亚那岛）或欧洲加勒比地区的思想传播与海地有什么不同？从什么意义上说，启蒙运动的人类学和文学的转变是在相反的方向上起作用的？从加勒比海回到欧洲？新人文主义、认知转变、知识组织和信仰体系这四个领域将指导我们的项目。在法国-加勒比文学中发现的对人性和世界主义的普遍概念的构思，是欧洲和加勒比之间跨大西洋关系的核心。此外，认识论的动态作为证据和明确的语义，具有特定的转换，认识论的形成，存档模式，以及叙事中的宗教信仰的融合和神奇形式及其与启蒙运动的关系，将是研究项目的关键关注。由于启蒙思想的传播不能仅仅被理解为思想的转移，我们的目标是阐明启蒙运动对语言实践和写作结构的概念和无意识的影响，例如直接引用lumi<e:1>和克里奥尔语的延期和颠覆。这种方法使得文学、语言和文化研究的合作至关重要。

Operating under a transatlantic perspective regarding the impact of the Enlightenment on the francophone Caribbean, we focus on the globalized circulation of knowledge as central to an international dialogue. Given their growing cultural and linguistic diversity, these considerations stand to gain a new social significance in the European context. Such a study of the Enlightenment in a transcontinental framework has the potential to deepen understanding and point towards possible solutions. It is our hypothesis that the revolutionary potential of the European Enlightenment was not exhausted in the struggles for decolonization in the 19th century. We maintain, rather, that the ideals forged in the age of Enlightenment have an effect beyond Europe as they continue to influence the political and cultural development of postcolonial societies. Because ideas are subject to circulation, rather than simple adoption, we seek to investigate the particular ways in which ideas have been adapted and modified in Franco-Caribbean literatures. Focus will be directed on the last three decades, during which an observable re-import of Caribbean cultural theories, epistemes, and literatures into Europe has occurred. In working towards a re-evaluation of the Enlightenment, we will be guided by three questions:1. What type of neo-enlightenment episteme does contemporary Franco-Caribbean literature delineate in comparison to the Franco-Caribbean reception of the 19th century and the Spanish American Enlightenment?2. In what ways does the circulation of ideas in the overeas départements (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Guyana), or the European Caribbean, differ from that of Haiti since its independence in 1804?3. In what sense can an anthropological, literary transformation of the Enlightenment be said to function in the opposite direction; from the Caribbean back to Europe?The four areas of new humanism, epistemic transformations, knowledge organization, and belief systems will direct our project. The plotting of a universal concept of humanity and cosmopolitanism, as found in Franco-Caribbean literature, is central to the transatlantic relationship between Europe and the Caribbean. Moreover, the dynamics of epistemology as a semantic of evidence and clarity with specific transformations, epistemic formations, modes of archiving as well as the syncretistic and magical forms of religious belief in the narratives and their relationship to the Enlightenment will be of key concern in the research project. Since the circulation of Enlightenment thought cannot be understood as a mere transference of ideas, we aim to shed light upon the conceptual and unconscious impact of the Enlightenment into the very practice of language, and into the structures of writing, such as direct quotations from the Lumières and Creole deferrals and subversion. This approach makes a cooperation of literature, linguistic, and cultural studies absolutely vital.