Decolonization, Appropriation and the Materials of Literature in Africa and its Diaspora

LITAID解决了关于文学材料的基本问题--诗歌、戏剧、小说和故事的素材--以及这些素材如何从一种文学文化中被挪用到另一种文学文化中。它通过关注非洲文学的非殖民化及其流散来做到这一点，因为在这里，挪用的含义特别令人烦恼。LITAID特别关注加纳的文学领域，加纳是第一个从英国独立出来的撒哈拉以南非洲国家，也是非殖民主义运动和艺术的早期焦点，它从（a）当地艺术家和机构;（B）为自己的社区寻求非殖民资源的文学旅行者的角度考虑这一领域的跨国层面。驱动LITAID的研究问题是：什么样的挪用模式出现在文学去殖民化的要求和回应？该项目提出了一种原创的专用战略类型学;描述了南南跨国主义的独特形式;概述了面向非洲及其散居地的世界文学批评的新方法;说明了艺术在非殖民化中的作用以及艺术非殖民化的手段;并审查了文学材料的性质和可移植性。为此，LITAID采用了一种创新的方法，将世界文学，文学社会学，图书史，诗学和叙事学，教育史和数字人文学的方法结合起来。它提供了开创性的帐户（1）加纳印刷文化;（2）艺术教育政策和学校和大学在文学非殖民化中的作用;（3）加纳文学文化的跨国层面;（4）加纳，南非，加勒比和非洲裔美国人文学文化之间的关系;（5）包括Efua Sutherland，J.H. Nketia，Richard Wright，Kamau Brathwaite and Guy Butler.其产出将包括9篇期刊文章和4本专著。

LITAID addresses fundamental questions about the materials of literature - the stuff from which poems, plays, novels and stories are made - and about how these are appropriated from one literary culture for another. It does this by focusing on literary decolonization in Africa and its diaspora, because here the meanings of appropriation are particularly vexed. LITAID looks especially at the literary field in Ghana, the first sub-Saharan African nation to achieve independence from Britain and an early focus of decolonial activism and art. It considers this field's transnational dimensions from the perspective of (a) local artists and institutions; and (b) literary travellers who came seeking decolonial resources for their own communities. The research question driving LITAID is: what modes of appropriation arise within and respond to the demands of literary decolonization? The project produces an original typology of appropriative strategies; describes distinctive forms of South-South transnationalism; outlines a new methodology for world literary criticism oriented to Africa and its diaspora; gives an account of the role of the arts in decolonization and the means of decolonizing the arts; and examines the nature and portability of literary materials. To these ends, LITAID adopts an innovative approach combining methodologies of world literature, literary sociology, book history, poetics and narratology, the history of education, and digital humanities. It gives ground-breaking accounts of (1) Ghanaian print culture; (2) arts education policy and the role of schools and universities in literary decolonization; (3) the transnational dimensions of Ghanaian literary culture; (4) relations between Ghanaian, South African, Caribbean and African American literary cultures; and (5) the careers of several major authors including Efua Sutherland, J. H. Nketia, Richard Wright, Kamau Brathwaite and Guy Butler. Its outputs will include 9 journal articles and 4 monographs.