Inhospitable Modernisms: The Ecological Value of Modernist Alienation (INMODERN)

INMODERN分析了四位现代主义作家--詹姆斯·乔伊斯(1882-1941)、让·里斯(1890-1979)、内拉·拉森(1891-1964)和朱娜·巴恩斯(1892-1982)对不适宜居住环境的描绘。该项目将把现代主义者的疏远与冷漠的概念联系起来，冷漠被认为是社会排斥和环境敌意。利用现代主义研究、文学理论和环境人文科学的最新学术成果，INMODERN将展示现代主义异化如何不仅仅是一种生存状态，而是各种压迫的结果，有助于创造社会和自然的不适宜居住的环境。该项目声称，文学现代主义独特的情感档案(即沮丧、不满、犹豫……)对于揭示某些类别的个人与社会背景和更广泛的环境之间的隔阂是必不可少的。通过关注处于社会边缘的人物如何适应和挣扎于一个荒凉的世界，INMODERN将强调在主体与更广泛的环境之间的互动中经常涉及的挑战，并将评估现代主义和现代性在当今生态危机背景下的相关性。INMODERN拓宽了当前关于复原力和可持续性的论述，回顾了二十世纪初，认为这是一个关键变化时期，在这个时期，今天普遍的生态危机开始形成。通过展示自然、社会和个人生态是如何相互联系的，该项目将建立一个重要的框架，以重新思考发展、进步和适应问题。

INMODERN analyses the depiction of inhospitable environments in the works of four modernist authors - James Joyce (1882-1941), Jean Rhys (1890-1979), Nella Larsen (1891-1964), and Djuna Barnes (1892-1982). The project will link modernist alienation to the concept of inhospitality, considered as both social exclusion and environmental hostility. Drawing on recent scholarship in modernist studies, literary theory, and the environmental humanities, INMODERN will demonstrate how modernist alienation is not simply an existential condition but an effect of various kinds of oppression contributing to the creation of social and natural inhospitable environments. The project claims that literary modernism's unique archive of feelings (i.e. frustration, disaffection, hesitation...) is essential in uncovering the estrangement of certain categories of individuals from social contexts and broader environments. By focusing on the ways in which characters at the fringe of society adapt to and struggle with an inhospitable world, INMODERN will highlight the challenges often entailed in the interaction between subjects and broader environments and will assess the relevance of modernism and modernity in the context of the present-day ecological crisis. INMODERN broadens the current discourse on resilience and sustainability, looking back at the early twentieth century as a time of pivotal change in which today's generalized ecological crisis started to take shape. By showing how natural, social, and individual ecologies are interconnected, the project will develop an important framework to rethink issues of development, progress, and adaptability.