流动性研究：文学空间研究的新方向

外国文学研究 ›› 2020, Vol. 42 ›› Issue (2): 26-38.

流动性研究：文学空间研究的新方向

刘英

出版日期:2020-04-25 发布日期:2021-02-28
作者简介:刘英,南开大学外国语学院教授,主要从事19和20世纪美国文学研究。
基金资助:
国家社科基金重大项目“美国文学地理的文史考证与学科建构”（16ZDA197）

Mobility Studies: A New Direction in Spatial Literary Studies

Liu Ying

Online:2020-04-25 Published:2021-02-28
About author:Liu Ying is a professor at the School of Foreign Lnaguages, Nankai University (Tianjin 300071, China), specializing in the 19^th- and 20^th-century American literature. Email: 002129@nankai.edu.cn
Supported by:
“American Literary Geography: Textual & Historical Research and Disciplinary Construction” (16ZDA197) sponsored by National Social Science Fund of China

摘要/Abstract

内容摘要： 如果说20世纪九十年代社会科学的“空间转向”催生了文学空间研究的爆发,21世纪的“流动性转向”也同样引发了文学研究对流动性的热切关注。从空间转向中孕育、萌芽、成长起来的流动性转向强调空间的关系性和动态性以及流动性在空间生产中的重要作用。文学对流动性的表征以身体―空间―流动性的三相关联为主要模式,以流动性媒介（交通技术和交通基础设施）和流动性政治为两个基本维度展开。文学流动性的研究意义在于：在微观层面,聚焦流动性的具身性,视流动性为发生在身体上的空间实践;在宏观层面,揭示流动性与文学之间的相互作用：一方面,流动性技术和基础设施的变革影响叙事结构和文学类型的衍变,另一方面,文学见证流动性变迁,揭露流动性政治,参与流动性话语,影响流动性实践。

关键词: 文学空间研究, 流动性, 交通, 空间生产

Abstract: If the “Spatial Turn”of the social sciences in the 1990s triggered the quick rise of Spatial Literary Studies, the “Mobility Turn” that occurred in the early years of the 21^st century may have also drawn enthusiastic attention to the issue of mobility in literary studies. The “Mobility Turn,” whose inception, budding, and growth are deeply indebted to the “Spatial Turn,” stresses the connectivity and dynamics of space and the crucial role mobility plays in the construction of space as well. Literary representation of mobility is mainly executed through an integrated body-space-mobility model and laid out with mobility medium (transport technology and transport infrastructure) and mobility politics as the two basic dimensions. The significance of Mobility Literary Studies is: on the micro level, it focuses on the embodiment of mobility and sees mobility as spatial practice of the body; on the macro level, it reveals the interplay between mobility and literature, namely, the changes in narrative structure and literary genre impacted by the transformation of mobility technology and infrastructure on the one hand and, on the other, a series of ways in which literature functions, such as observing mobility evolution, revealing mobility politics, participating in mobility discourse, and intervening mobility practice.

Key words: Spatial Literary Studies, Mobility Turn, transport, the construction of space

刘英. 流动性研究：文学空间研究的新方向[J]. 外国文学研究, 2020, 42(2): 26-38.

Liu Ying. Mobility Studies: A New Direction in Spatial Literary Studies[J]. Foreign Literature Studies, 2020, 42(2): 26-38.

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