Reading Vulnerability in the Novels of Anna Kavan, Ann Quin, and Kathy Acker

该项目通过对20世纪三位重要的女性文学实验家安娜·卡万(1901-1968)、安·奎因(1936-1873)和凯西·阿克尔(1947-1997)的比较，论证了诗学与脆弱政治的当代相关性。它认为，它们各种形式上的创新预见到了法律、政治和哲学领域中较新的脆弱性理论的关切和概念，并对其进行了微妙的改变。它试图发展一种超越对颠覆性内容的认识的脆弱性理论，并将其作为一种重新思考性别政治历史和理论的方法。支持拟议项目的关键研究问题是：-作为一种“反应条件”，“脆弱性”的含义是什么(Ahmed，2016：485)，以及最近的脆弱性政治理论如何被翻译成文学批评背景？-卡万、奎因和阿克尔的特定文本如何通过挪用、切割、碎片化和自动虚构实验的正式策略在文本层面上描述“表演”和制定脆弱性？这些策略如何突出“响应性”和“渗透性”？他们的主题关注如何解开脆弱的性别经历？-通过这条贯穿脆弱的线，对这三位作家的比较分析能告诉我们他们的个人文学作品、与女权主义的令人担忧的关系和不同的遗产？-如何使用一个国际框架来探索这三位作者文本中精神、语言和地理置换之间的联系？这些形式的置换如何反映和折射作为一种文学-政治实践的脆弱性？--创新的文学实践如何作为一种批评范式和性别政治战略来细微区别脆弱性理论？

This project argues for the contemporary relevance of a poetics and politics of vulnerability, via a comparativereading of three key female literary experimentalists of the twentieth century: Anna Kavan (1901-1968), Ann Quin(1936-1873) and Kathy Acker (1947-1997). It contends that their diverse formal innovations anticipate and nuancethe concerns and concepts of more recent theorizations of vulnerability in the spheres of law, politics, andphilosophy. It seeks to develop a theory of vulnerability that goes beyond the recognition of subversive content andworks instead as a method to rethink the history and theory of gender politics.The key research questions underpinning the proposed project are:- What are the meanings of 'vulnerability' as a 'condition of responsiveness' (Ahmed, 2016: 485), and howmight recent theorizations of the politics of vulnerability be translated into a literary-critical context?- How do particular texts by Kavan, Quin, and Acker depict 'perform' and enact vulnerability on a textuallevel, through formal strategies of appropriation, cut-up, fragmentariness and autofictionalexperimentation? How do these strategies foreground 'responsiveness' and 'permeability'? How do theirthematic concerns unpick gendered experiences of vulnerability?- What can comparative analyses of these three authors, by way of this throughline of vulnerability, tell usabout their individual literary projects, fraught relationships to feminism and diverse legacies?- How might an international framework be used to explore the connections between psychic, linguistic, andgeographic displacement in these three authors' texts? How might these forms of displacement reflect andrefract vulnerability as a literary-political practice?- How might innovative literary practices serve to nuance vulnerability theory as a critical paradigm andgender-political strategy?