Telling the Stories of Others: Applying an Ameliorated Concept of 'Culture' to the Subject Appropriation Debate

AHRC(WRoCAH)：Nadia Mehdi：AH/L503848/1我的研究项目将审查主题拨款。我会争辩说，主题挪用--来自另一种文化的艺术家对一种文化的表现--是道德上的关切，因为占主导地位的艺术家(男性、白人等)歪曲了被压迫者的经历和主观性，因为歪曲进一步加剧了边缘化。我首先会解释什么是歪曲构成的，这一点在关于主题挪用的辩论中还没有做过。然后，我必须证明，与流行的哲学信仰背道而驰的是，确实有可能歪曲最终是虚构的经历。其次，我必须证明，观众从小说中学习是可能的。我将探讨小说的现象学维度，那些与消费小说的体验相关的维度，以证明小说可以传授一种关于与被边缘化的身份生活是什么样子的知识。然后，我将确定为什么观众在社会认识论中学习关于被压迫的、拉票工作的谎言是一个问题，以阐明错误陈述在物质和意识形态层面支持压迫的方式。

AHRC (WRoCAH) : Nadia Mehdi : AH/L503848/1My research project will examine subject appropriation. I will argue that subject appropriation - the representation of a culture by an artist from another culture - is of moral concern when dominantly situated artists (men, white people, and so on) misrepresent the experiences and subjectivities of the oppressed given that misrepresentations further perpetuate marginalization.I will first develop an account of what misrepresentations are comprised of, something that has yet to be done in the debate regarding subject appropriations. I must then show, against popular philosophical belief, that it is indeed possible to misrepresent what is ultimately a fictional experience.Next, I must establish that it is possible for audiences learn from fiction. I will explore the phenomenological dimensions of fictions, those dimensions related to the experience of consuming fictions, to demonstrate that fiction can impart a knowledge-of-what-it-is-like to live with a marginalized identity.I will then determine why it is a problem for audiences to learn falsehoods about the oppressed, canvassing work in social epistemology to articulate the ways in which misrepresentations uphold oppression at both the material and ideological level.