《震荡的眼镜:(前)殖民主义、旅行和祖先的抒情在中世纪和雷蒙德》

IF 0.3 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Arts Pub Date : 2025-08-28 DOI:10.3390/arts14050101
Kathryn Emily Dickason
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本文考察了中世纪欧洲文化和芭蕾舞剧《雷蒙达》(Раймoнда)中(原型)殖民主义的比喻,该舞剧于1898年在圣彼得堡首演,背景设定在第五次十字军东征(1217-1221)期间。本研究将前现代的旅行记录与后中世纪的舞蹈创作并置,阐明了宗教差异性、帝国野心和女性抵抗如何构成舞蹈奇观和观赏性的表现。在芭蕾舞剧的概要之后,接下来的部分将考虑雷蒙德达的穆斯林角色与-à-vis中世纪的文本和图像。在这里,我结合了十字军时代的资料,旅行文学,以及他们伴随的肖像,以及遍布雷蒙德的人物塑造和美学。这些比较理解了十字军意识形态和俄罗斯帝国主义的种族化和(原型)殖民主义推力。最后一部分通过中世纪的抒情诗将雷蒙达历史化,并指出了抒情诗和芭蕾中世纪的非伊斯兰血统。因此,虽然传统版本的《雷蒙达》表现出对伊斯兰教的恐惧,但我认为,对中世纪的严格审视使这部芭蕾舞剧充满了深度和跨文化的细微差别。最后,本文展示了对前现代旅行和后中世纪舞蹈的综合研究如何帮助学者挑战欧洲中心主义、殖民主义和白人主义,这些观点普遍存在于中世纪研究和芭蕾艺术中。
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Saltatory Spectacles: (Pre)Colonialism, Travel, and Ancestral Lyric in the Middle Ages and Raymonda
This article examines tropes of (proto)colonialism in medieval European culture and Raymonda (Раймoнда), a ballet that premiered in St. Petersburg in 1898 and is set during the Fifth Crusade (1217–1221). Juxtaposing premodern travel accounts with a postmedieval dance creation, this study illuminates how religious otherness, imperial ambitions, and feminine resistance frame representations of dance spectacle and spectatorship. Following a synopsis of the ballet, the subsequent section considers Raymonda’s Muslim characters vis-à-vis medieval texts and images. Here, I incorporate Crusades-era sources, travel literature, and their accompanying iconography alongside the characterizations and aesthetics that pervade Raymonda. These comparisons apprehend the racializing and (proto)colonial thrust of crusader ideology and Russian imperialism. The final section historicizes Raymonda through medieval lyric and gestures toward an Afro-Islamicate ancestry of lyricism and ballet medievalism. Therefore, while traditional versions of Raymonda project Islamophobia, I posit that a rigorous examination of the Middle Ages imbues this ballet with profundity and intercultural nuance. Ultimately, this article demonstrates how a combined study of premodern travel and postmedieval dance may help scholars challenge the Eurocentrism, colonialism, and Whiteness that pervade medieval studies and the art of ballet.
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