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Multiculturalism and Hybridity in Japanese American Women Writers

Research Project

Project/Area Number 13610594
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 英語・英米文学
Research InstitutionWaseda University (2002)
Meiji University (2001)

Principal Investigator

KOBAYASHI Fukuko (2002)  Waseda University, School of Commerce, Professor, 商学部, 教授 (00063751)

サトウ ゲイルK. (2001)  明治大学, 文学部, 教授 (20215784)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KAWARASAKI Yasuko  Gunma Pers Gakuen Junior College, Associate Professor, 助教授 (80341808)
HIRAISHI Taeko  Kyoritsu Women's University, International Culture, Professor, 国際文化学部, 教授 (80060705)
小林 富久子  早稲田大学, 商学部, 教授 (00063751)
Project Period (FY) 2001 – 2002
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
KeywordsJapanese American literature / African American / mixed-blood / hybridity / international marriage / Japanese American community / family / multicultural / アジア系アメリカ研究 / 日系移民 / ジェンダー / 越境 / アジア系作家 / 多文化的書きもの / ハワイ / ネイティヴ / エスニック・スタディーズ / マイノリティ / 人種主義
Research Abstract

During the year 2001, Sato Gayle, Professor at Meiji University, acted as the head of our project, but in 2002 , she was allowed a one-year leave to stay at the University of Hawaii, so during that year Kobayashi became the head, while Kawarasaki joined us as a new member. So overall our project has been conducted by four members in total.
In 2001, Sato, Hiraishi, and Kobayashi visited respectively the University of Hawaii, UCLA, and UC Berkeley and were able to collect first-hand materials concerning our project. In 2002, Hiraishi got a half-year leave to stay at UC Davis and Stanford University, while Kobayashi and Kawarasaki made visits to UCLA and UC Berkeley, each engaging in lively exchange with Japanese American writers and scholars in the those universities. Above all the significant were the interviews Kobayashi and Kawarasaki conducted in the Southern California area-namely with the Japanese American playwright Velina Hasu Houston and the promising young Japanese American lite … More rary scholar Traise Yamamoto. Both writers' works are characterized by the multi-cultural hybrid writing. This seemed especially marked in writing by Houston, borm as a mixed child between her US-borm father, who himself had a mixed heritages of his African American and native American parents, and her Japanese-born mother who came to the US as a "war bride." Houston celebrated her rich cultural resources received in her hybrid multi-cultural environment, However, both Yamanoto and Houston emphasized that the concept of hybridity be not easily accepted by mainstream US society, still prone to the whiteness as the norm Interestingly enough, even Japanese American commuunity had long been antagonistic against the so-caled "hapa" people as somewhat "degenerate" and "impure." It is only recent that they began to accept the sense of hybridity as the new dynamic force to activate the otherwise somewhat stagnant Japanese American community.
It is our desire that the result of our two-year project add a new dimension to the scholarship in Japanea American literature which has tended to focus on the issues of family and community, and open up the newly revitalized discussion in the future. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 2002 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (16 results)

All Other

All Publications (16 results)

  • [Publications] 小林富久子: "Producting Asian American Spaces"The Japanese Journal of American Studies. 13. 63-81 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 佐藤ゲイル: "Cultural Recuperation in Garret's Hongo's The River of Heaven"Studies in American Literature. 32. 57-74 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 河原崎やす子: "アジア系アメリカ文学におけるテーマとしてのジェンダー"群馬パース学園紀要. 5. 1-9 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 平石妙子(共著): "食の政治学-ヒロミ・ゴトーの『マッシュルームのコーラス』"『脱植民地の諸相-カナダにおける新しい社会像の構築』. 83-91 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 河原崎やす子: "フェミニズムの名著50(共著)"平凡社. 528 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Fukuko Kobayashi: "Producing Asian African Spaces : From Cultural Nation to the Space of Hybridity as Represented in Texts by Asian American Writers"The Japanese Journal of American Studies. 13. 63-81 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sato Gayle: "Cultural Recuperaticn In Garret's Hongo's The River of Heaven"Studies in American Literature. 32. 57-74 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kawarasaki Yasuko: "The Gender as a Theme in Asian American Literature"Gunma Perse Gakuai Journal. 5. 1-9 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kamarasaki Yasuko (co-author): "Trinh T. Minh-ha"Classics in Feminism. 50. 385-393 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiraishi Taeko: "Food Politics : Hiromi Goto's Mushrooms' Chorus"Aspects of Decolonization : Construction of the Image of the New Canada. 83-91 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Fukuko Kobayashi(小林富久子): "Producing Asian American Spaces : from Cultural Nation to the space of Hybridity"The Japanese Journal of American Studies. 13. 63-81 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 平石妙子: "食の政治学-ヒロミ・ゴトーの『マッシュルームのコーラス』"脱植民地の諸相-カナダにおける新しい社会像の構築. 83-91 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 河原崎やす子: "アジア系アメリカ文学におけるテーマとしてのジェンダー"パース学園短期大学紀要. 2巻・6号. 1-9 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 河原崎 やす子(共著): "フェミニズムの名著50"平凡社. 528 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] サトウ ゲイル K.: "Cultural Recuperation in Garret Hongo's The River of Heaven"Studies In American Literature. No.32. 57-74 (2001)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 小林 富久子, 平石 妙子(アジア系アメリカ文学研究会編による共著): "アジア系アメリカ文学-記憶と創造 小林 富久子「移動・越境・混血-最近の日系女性作家における新しい主体意識」 平石 妙子「戦前の日系社会とその変容-トシオ・モリとヒサエ・ヤマモト」"大阪教育図書出版. 514(437-459, 149-172) (2001)

    • Related Report
      2001 Annual Research Report

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