Post/colonial travel adventures in pragmatic and fantastic dimensions

该项目旨在探索18世纪至20世纪殖民和后殖民背景下的英语旅行叙事，这些叙事借鉴了冒险写作的比喻和主题，部分重演了传统剧目，同时也部分重新考虑，重新绘制和重写了传统。通过这种方式，我们的旅行文本参与并探索了一种更古老的遗产，这种遗产受到了压力，并且在现代性中经常受到质疑或忽视。然而，它的复兴和再利用，在不同的文化条件下，结果是显着的生产力。在确认或对抗结构性暴力和霸权社会规范时，正如大英帝国文化所表现的那样，我们所研究的探索和旅行的叙事可能会在给定的帝国秩序内移动，或者跨越，甚至可能违反，它的严格限制，因此遵循非常不同的轨迹，并使用继承的冒险形式达到非常不同的目的。考虑到这一点，我们计划重点关注两个感兴趣的领域。第一个个案研究是对英语教学进行对话式阅读。劳伦斯和JRR托尔金，他的共同努力，在牛津学习的基础上，是重新上演或重塑一个充满男性英雄毅力的世界，充满中世纪冒险和强烈的殖民影响。第二个案例研究着眼于克里奥尔人的冒险，如在后殖民加勒比写作自18世纪世纪以来，包括奴隶叙事和克里奥尔海盗故事，使用冒险模式，以要求和执行新的形式的权威和作者。

This project sets out to explore anglophone travel narratives from colonial and postcolonial contexts, between the 18th and the 20th century, which draw on tropes and topoi of adventure writing, partly replaying a traditional repertoire while also partly reconsidering, redrawing and rewriting the tradition. In this way, our travel texts engage with and explore an older legacy that has come under pressure and, in modernity, has frequently been questioned or dismissed. Yet its revival and reuses, under different cultural conditions, turn out to be remarkably productive. In confirming or confronting structural violence and hegemonic social norms, as manifest in the culture of the British Empire, the narratives of quest and travel that we study may either move within the imperial order given or move across, perhaps even against, its strict confines, thus following very different trajectories and using the inherited adventure forms to very different ends. With this in mind, we plan to focus on two areas of interest. The first case study undertakes a dialogic reading of T.E. Lawrence and J.R.R. Tolkien, whose shared endeavour, grounded in Oxonian learning, is to restage or reinvent a world of masculine heroic perseverance, rife with medievalist adventure and full of strong colonial repercussions. The second case study looks at creole adventures, as evinced in postcolonial Caribbean writing since the 18th century, including slave narratives and creole pirate tales, using the adventure modes so as to claim and perform new forms of authority and authorship.