| Summary: | 接觸場域：原住民經驗的(跨)關係研究Contact Zone: A (Trans-)Relational Study of Indigenous Experiences子計畫一原住民文學與文化中夢域的(跨)關係研究：基經驗和超經驗的接觸場域A (Trans-)Relational Study of Dream Vision in Indigenous Literature and Culture:Contact Zone of Infra- and Extra-Experiences本計畫以原住民文學文化的夢/夢境/夢域研究，跨出現代性夢的解析侷限，參與當代人文反思。原住民夢境經驗為原住民以及非原住民的文學和文化創作泉源，本研究基於此以夢域之（跨）經驗詩學、政治學、美學，針對深具啟示作用的原住民之夢域視界提出探討，將此夢域視界做為底層的的土生經驗和宇宙（cosmic）的超越經驗，兩者之間的過渡和激發（transport, transportation），探討對象以北美原住民文學與文化為主(Native North American literature and culture)，參酌澳洲原住民Dreamtime的觀念和藝術作品，並帶入台灣原住民研究，傳達跨越物種的連帶關係（(trans-)relation），從互動到連動，是知識的表述，也是情感的傳輸，特別著重人和環境的互感，與人類中心之認同政治協商，分三年進行：1.Dream Vision: Presenting Indigenous (Trans-)Relational Experiences夢境視界：原住民(跨)關係經驗的展現第一年墊定研究基礎，耙梳夢的理論以及原住民夢的理論，以原住民文學文化作品探討原住民的夢/夢域敘述、溝通、跨越，及其文化生產，出脫象徵的研究，探入「即身」的面向（embodied materiality）。參考著作：C. G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions, Dream Seeker, Dreaming2.Living the Dream: (Trans-)Relating Indigeneity第一年探討夢做為跨原住民經驗的聯繫，從個人夢境到族群夢域到夢國/夢土，並帶進澳洲原住民Dreamtime, Dreaming,以及Country的概念及其藝術表現，進一步探討Deborah Bird Rose所說的，"So this is a human being: sharing flesh with [dream] country and with other species" (Dingo: 2000)，從互動的主體到互感的身體其多重聯繫（multi-dimensional relations）。3.Performing the Dream: Performativity in Indigenous (Trans-)Relational Experiences第三年探討原住民夢域文學文化創作做為跨關係展演，使跨物種關係可視可見(making relations visible)，運用表意文化(expressive culture)的展演理論（performance theory），參照Walter Ong口傳/口語文化的行動性、展演性、即身性（對比書寫文化的抽象、分析和離身性）進行探討，並引用Spivak的論述，以「土著報導人」（native informant）做為轉義詞（trope），述說原住民作家/藝術家從一個不可能的觀點，換置成一種拮抗的網絡，織造原住民可然之世界（possible worlds）。探討作品包含主要的北美原住民作家的文學作品，如Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, Thomas King, Gordon Henry；非文學作品，如Greg Sarris的Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (1994)；民族藝師紀錄片，如Killer Whale and Crocodile；以及非原住民的延伸創作和運用，如兩部重要的電影，Werner Herzog's Where The Green Ants Dream（荷索，綠蟻安睡的大地），和Peter Weir's The Last Wave，都敏銳的刻畫澳洲Dreamtime的生態精神。Dreamtime的概念和神話並多見於科幻作品，如Tad Williams史詩之作"Otherland"四部曲和Spider Robinson的科幻三部曲"Stardance"。其他還有Rabbit-Proof2Fence和Australia等等。 This project plans to conduct a research and study in indigenous literature and culture with a focus on dreams from a perspective attentive to indigenous communal experiences. A new light will be shed on the interpretation of dreams beyond Freud's modernist model of human psyche. Indigenous dream culture has been a major source of inspiration for both indigenous and non-indigenous writers; however, it remains esoteric to most literary critics. Aiming at bridging the gap this project will explore dream narratives and presentations in indigenous fiction, non-fiction, films and arts by studying the poetics, aesthetics, and significance of these transpersonal experiences. Based on the foundation thus built, this project will take transpersonal dreams as the contact zone where corporeal experiences in indigenous environments are transported to become cosmic imaging. This interpretive model of dream negotiates between the material and the spiritual world with emphasis on revelations of cross-species relations. To carry out the project a three-year study is proposed with each year's focus as follows:1. Dream Vision: Presenting Indigenous (Trans-)Relational ExperiencesThe first year lays the theoretical and textual foundation of the project. The study of indigenous dream culture will be investigated as well as major dream theory of non-indigenous perspectives. Based on the critical frame established, indigenous literary and cultural texts of dream will be explored regarding issues of narrativity, boundary crossing and cross-boundary communication, and indigenous cultural production to decentralize the symbolic dream system of repressed unconscious, and usher in the embodied materiality of primal human-nature bonding.Reference works: C. G. Jung and the Sioux Traditions, Dream Seeker, Dreaming2. Living the Dream: (Trans-)Relating IndigeneityWith the foundation built in the first year, the study will be extended to mapping a indigenous dream culture with reference to Australian Aboriginal myth of Dreamtime. The study of arts and themes developed from Aboriginal belief of Dreaming will support Australian ecological humanist scholar Deborah Bird Rose's words, "So this is a human being: sharing flesh with [dream] country and with other species" (Dingo: 2000). Lived indigeneity in dream is emphasized in this inquiry.3. Performing the Dream: Performativity in Indigenous (Trans-)Relational ExperiencesThe third year will investigate the trans-relational performativity of indigenous dream culture. Indigenous dream texts in this inquiry will be taken as performances of (trans-)relating the human and environments. Act of writing indigenous dream vision is also construed as performing indigeneity. The indigenous cultural poetics of performing dream renders the cross-species relations visible. The supporting reference includes: performance theory of expressive culture developed by such anthropologists as Turner and Bauman, Walter Ong's comparative cultural study of orality as embodied performance, etc. In the end Spivak's reviving of native informant in reasoning postcolonialism will be2borrowed as a trope to highlight an "impossible" perspective to weave possible worlds into narrative.The primary texts to be investigated include: those by major Native North American writers, such as Linda Hogan, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, Thomas King, Gordon Henry; nonfictions, such as Greg Sarris's Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (1994); documentaries, such as Killer Whale and Crocodile; sensitive and serious portray of Aboriginal Dreamtime in films, such as Werner Herzog's Where The Green Ants Dream and Peter Weir's The Last Wave as well as the film Rabbit-Proof Fence and the popular film Australia. Science fiction also touches upon myth of Dreamtime, for instance Tad Williams four-volume epic "Otherland" and Spider Robinson's trilogy "Stardance."
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