Diasporic Encounters: Journeys between France and the Maghreb in Contemporary Art

研究背景：我的研究探讨当代艺术（从1980年至今）的妇女谁认为自己是法国和阿尔及利亚，摩洛哥或突尼斯。它探讨了他们使用摄影，装置和行为艺术来表达他们复杂身份的方式。它展示了他们的作品如何与法国文化的静态、同质概念形成对比，以及它如何挑战法国东方主义者对马格里布妇女的形象，或当今法国对马格里布血统妇女的陈规定型观念。特别是，我分析了他们的工作中使用的方式旅行的主题-并越来越多地，代表法国和马格里布之间的实际行程-证明个人和集体的法国和马格里布的历史和身份的必然相互联系。目的和目标：澳大利亚人权委员会的研究假期将用于完成一本关于五位艺术家的专著，我认为这五位艺术家是1980年以来“佛朗哥-马格里布”艺术演变的代表。这将涉及到写五个相互关联的章节中的三个，为此，主要研究-和相关的产出-将已经完成：第3章：Zoulikha Bouabdellah（8，000）第4章：Majida Khattari（8，000）第5章：Zineb Sedira（10，000）我还将写一个10，000字的结论。导言和前两章（第1章：Houria Niati和第2章：Samta Benyahia）将在此期间之前完成，两份出版物将于2008年2月提交（详情请参阅“出版物”）。这些出版物，以及我被邀请在卡迪夫大学在2008年2月，将提供必要的临时反馈项目，并将被用来（沿着我在2006-7学年交付的三篇论文）作为论文的其余章节的草稿，从而导致其在研究休假期间顺利完成。潜在的应用和好处：虽然主要有助于法国和更广泛的法语国家的文化和身份的知识，并对跨文化关系的法国研究的新兴重点，这一跨学科的专着将有助于奖学金和大学课程在广泛的相互关联的领域，如后殖民研究，艺术史，当代文化史，性别研究，并在旅行写作的研究。离散遭遇：法国和马格里布在当代艺术中的合作将产生一些相关的个人和集体研究项目。除了已经编写的出版物和论文外，与专著有关的其他产出包括至少一篇文章、一章和一篇论文，将在布里斯托大学批准的休假期间完成（如上所述）。这项研究将导致（在2008- 2009年）一系列进一步的文件，侧重于专题论文探讨的主题，其版本将提交给当代法国和法语国家的研究，法语后殖民研究和浪漫研究杂志的文章。合作项目包括一系列研讨会在法国和法语国家的文化旅行（这是我今年在布里斯托大学共同举办的）的延续，以及在现代语言旅行的区域研讨会系列，我计划与同事从卡迪夫大学和斯旺西大学。这些项目将导致至少一个合作卷，提交给旅行写作研究。同时扩大这个项目（在2008-9年），包括撒哈拉以南非洲和越南侨民的法语艺术家的作品的比较分析，我计划组织一个国际会议在视觉艺术的后殖民主义，这将导致进一步的合作量。

Research Context:My research examines contemporary art (from 1980 to the present day) by women who see themselves both as French and as Algerian, Moroccan or Tunisian. It explores the ways in which they use photography, installation and performance art to express their complex identities. It shows how their work provides a counterpoint to static, homogenous notions of French culture, and how it challenges French Orientalist images of Maghrebi women or more recent stereotypes of women of Maghrebi descent in France today. In particular, I analyse the ways in which their work uses the theme of travel - and, increasingly, represents actual journeys between France and the Maghreb - to demonstrate the inevitable interconnectedness of personal and collective French and Maghrebi histories and identities. Aims and Objectives:The period of AHRC research leave would be used to complete a monograph on five artists who I believe to be representative of the evolution of 'Franco-Maghrebi' art since 1980. This would involve writing up three out of five interconnected chapters, for which the primary research - and related outputs - would have been completed: Chapter 3: Zoulikha Bouabdellah (8,000)Chapter 4: Majida Khattari (8,000)Chapter 5: Zineb Sedira (10,000)I would also write a conclusion of 10,000 words. The introduction, and the first two chapters (Chapter 1: Houria Niati and Chapter 2: Samta Benyahia), will be completed before this period, as will two publications to be submitted in February 2008 (for details, please see 'Publications'). These publications, as well as a paper I have been invited to give at the University of Cardiff in February 2008, will provide essential interim feedback on the project, and will be used (along with the three papers I delivered in the academic year 2006-7) as drafts for the remaining chapters of the monograph, thus leading to its successful completion within the period of research leave. Potential Applications and Benefits:Whilst contributing primarily to the knowledge of French and wider francophone cultures and identities, and to the emerging focus of French studies on intercultural relations, this interdisciplinary monograph will contribute to scholarship and university courses in a wide range of interconnected fields such as postcolonial studies, art history, contemporary cultural history, gender studies, and studies in travel writing. Diasporic Encounters: Journeys between France and the Maghreb in Contemporary Art will give rise to a number of related individual and collective research projects. In addition to publications and papers already produced, further outputs related to the monograph include at least one article, one chapter and one paper, to be completed during a period of leave awarded by the University of Bristol (as mentioned above). This research will lead (in 2008-9) to a range of further papers, focusing on themes explored by the monograph, versions of which will be submitted as articles to Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Francophone Postcolonial Studies and the Journal of Romance Studies. Collaborative projects include the continuation of a series of seminars on Travel in French and Francophone Cultures (which I co-organised at the University of Bristol this year), as well as a regional seminar series on travel in Modern Languages, which I am planning with colleagues from the University of Cardiff and the University of Swansea. These projects will lead to at least one collaborative volume, to be submitted to Studies in Travel Writing. Whilst expanding this project (in 2008-9) to include comparative analyses of work produced by francophone artists of the sub-Saharan African and Vietnamese diasporas, I plan to organise an international conference on Postcolonialism in the Visual Arts, which would result in a further collaborative volume.