外国文学研究 ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (2): 1-16.

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残疾研究、文学与人文:迈克尔·贝鲁贝访谈录

阳洋, 迈克尔·贝鲁贝   

  • 出版日期:2022-04-25 发布日期:2022-04-29
  • 作者简介:阳洋,四川大学外国语学院博士生,主要研究领域为当代美国南方文学、视觉文化和残疾研究。迈克尔·贝鲁贝,美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学英文系的爱德温·艾尔莱·斯巴克文学教授、前美国现代语言协会主席,主要研究领域为文学的残疾研究、英语文学、文化政治。
  • 基金资助:
    国家留学基金委“建设高水平大学博士联合培养项目”9/2019-9/2020(201906240047); 湖南省社科基金项目“英语文学中的殖民医学研究”(17YBA343)

Disability Studies, Literature, and Humanities: An Interview with Michael Bérubé

Yang Yang, Michael Bérubé   

  • Online:2022-04-25 Published:2022-04-29
  • About author:Yang Yang is a PhD candidate at the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sichuan University (Chengdu 610065, China). Her areas of research include contemporary American Southern literature, visual culture, and Disability Studies. Email: hely0107@163.com. Michael Bérubé is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Literature at the Department of English, Pennsylvania State University (University Park 16802, U.S.) and the former president of Modern Language Association of America. His areas of research include literary disability studies, English literature and cultural politics. Email: mfb12@psu.edu
  • Supported by:
    The Joint Doctoral Student Training for Building High-Level Universities Program funded by China Scholarship Council, 9/2019-9/2020 (201906240047); “Colonial Medicine in English Literature” (17YBA343) sponsored by the Social Science Fund of Hunan Province.

内容摘要: 迈克尔·贝鲁贝是前美国现代语言协会主席,英语文学、残疾研究和文化政治领域的著名学者。他对残疾现象、残疾的社会接受以及残疾的文学研究有着深刻见解。他的主要学术著作包括《杰米了解的生活:特殊儿童的成长》(2016)、《故事的秘密生命:从唐吉诃德到哈利波特,智力残疾如何转变我们的阅读之道》(2016)等,他的“再现”“残疾、民主和新的基因学”及“残疾和叙事”等文章收录在著名的残疾研究著作和A&HCI来源期刊当中。在2020年现代语言协会年会上,贝鲁贝接受了四川大学博士生阳洋的采访。访谈涉及残疾和残疾研究的界定、贝鲁贝基于自身家庭经历的残疾生命书写、西方20世纪残疾文学生成的社会环境、文学的残疾研究的方法和未来趋势等议题。文学的残疾研究将文学作品中残疾人与残疾现象置于考察的焦点,在拓宽文学研究的人文广度与丰富文学批评的伦理关怀方面具有重要的意义。

关键词: 残疾研究, 文学, 人文, 贝鲁贝

Abstract: Michael Bérubé is the former president of Modern Language Association of America and a renowned scholar in English literature, Disability Studies, and cultural politics. He has profound understandings about the phenomenon of disability, the acceptance of disability in society, and the literary studies of disability. His major works include Life as Jamie Knows It: An Exceptional Child Grows Up (2016), The Secret Life of Stories: From Don Quixote to Harry Potter, How Understanding Intellectual Disability Transforms the Way We Read(2016)and so on. His articles, such as “Representation,” “Disability, and Democracy, and the New Genetics,” and “Disability and Narrative,” are included in famous Disability Studies works and A&HCI journals. At the 2020 Modern Language Association convention, Bérubé accepted the invitation of Yang Yang, a doctoral candidate of Sichuan University, to do an interview. The interview touches upon the definition of disability and Disability Studies, the life writing of disability based on Bérubé's own family experience, the generating social environment of disability literature in the West in the 20th century, the approaches and future trends of literary disability studies, etc. Literary disability studies investigates disabled characters and the issues of disability in literature, thus playing an important role in expanding the humane width of literary studies and enriching the ethical care of literary criticism.

Key words: Disability Studies, literature, humanities, Bérubé

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