新自由主義文化的「西方」問題:不自由主義與女性培力
白瑞梅
科技部
科幻小說;奇幻;新自由主義;女性培力敘事
政府委託研究報告
國立中央大學英美語文學系
基礎研究
749
其他(社會);;;
science fiction; fantasy; neoliberalism; female empowerment narrative
2017
本計劃將探究以堅毅女性為主角的特定21 世紀流行文化文本如何呈現有關「治理」的問題,以及如 br>何發展出複雜而批判的政治語言,以反思當代後冷戰民主政體所仰賴的諸多信念與思惟。當代之新 br>自由主義文化是一種挪用(人權、民權、女權等)權利論述、將培力過程個人化的敘事形式,因此, br>當代新自由主義的文化生產也在此種挪用之人權論述中把女主角的培力過程刻劃為針對厭女主義和 br>暴力犯罪而戰。我在本計畫中要顯示的,就是這類敘事其實如何崁入了一個更大的後冷戰地緣政治 br>想像,這個願景把西方建構為自由和權利的捍衛者以抵抗否定自由和權利的封建統治或共產統治, br>後兩者因此被顯示為前現代的過時之物。我將在此三年計畫之進程中,讓這類奇幻小說及其文類評 br>論與晚近針對新自由/不自由主義之文化批評相互對話,以探究文化文本如何創造女性培力之轉 br>喻,如何展現並挑戰新自由主義那些挪用、併吞、既高舉個人也以家庭為本的政治語言。女性培力 br>小說的情節處理,在與晚近討論新自由/不自由主義的學術論述並置對話之時,也可對後冷戰脈絡 br>下形構的民主詞彙(如公開透明、自由、個體、國家主權、人權)進行批判的反思。;The goal of this project is to understand how select popular cultural texts of the 21st century, br>especially those that feature strong female protagonists, address the problem of governance and br>develop a complicated and critical political language for reflecting on the underlying beliefs and br>concepts supporting contemporary post Cold War democracies. Neoliberal culture is understood br>as a form of narrative that appropriates rights discourse (such as human rights, civil rights, br>women’s rights) toward an individualization of empowerment. In contemporary neoliberal cultural br>production, the female protagonist’s story forms within the appropriated discourse of human rights br>that appears to pose her empowerment against the threat of misogyny and violent crimes against br>women. The issue I will address in this project is how that narrative is embedded in a larger br>post-Cold War geopolitical vision that tropes misogyny as anti-West. In other words, this vision br>constructs the West as the guarantor of freedoms and rights over and against both feudal and br>communist regimes which are seen as denying them, and are therefore seen as pre-modern. By br>putting popular texts and genre criticism on sff in dialogue with recent cultural criticism on br>neoliberalism and illiberalism, I will, in the course of this three year project, explore how the cultural br>texts create tropes of female empowerment to illustrate and challenge what has now been br>identified as the appropriative, incorporating and individualistic yet family-modeled political br>language of neoliberalism. Putting them in dialogue with recent academic work on neoliberalism br>and illiberalism, these emplotments also serve as critical reflections on the constitutive terms of br>democracy in a post-Cold War context, such as transparency, freedom, the individual, national br>sovereignty and human rights.
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