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African American Global Imaginary

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K02333
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

TAKETANI Etsuko  筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (60245933)

Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
KeywordsAfrican Americans / Air-Age Globalism / Walter White / Edith Sampson / アフリカ系アメリカ文学 / 航空時代 / ジョセフィン・ベーカー / 国際養子縁組 / 虹の部族 / 国連 / シベリア抑留 / イーディス・サンプソン / 冷戦 / グローバリズム / 空間認識 / ウォルター・ホワイト
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project proposes to revisit a spatial paradigm shift that occurred in the 1940s United States, which imagined a break with the long-accepted Mercator projection―a shift that, I suggest, had a significant bearing on the African American planetary imaginary. Mercator’s map rapidly lost its narrative power during World War II. Instead, an innovative cartography adopting an aerial perspective―popularized by Richard Edes Harrison’s “One World, One War” map, drawn in an azimuthal projection centered on the North Pole―represented the United States’ fresh world outlook. It ushered in what Alan K. Henrikson has termed “air-age globalism.” By examining the air travels of Walter White and Edith Sampson, who navigated this changing spatial context, this project examines what I term “the black global imaginary.”

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 2015

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (4 results)

  • [Journal Article] Review of Strange Fruit of the Black Pacific: Imperialism's Racial Justice and Its Fugitives2018

    • Author(s)
      Taketani Etsuko
    • Journal Title

      Journal of American History

      Volume: 104 Issue: 4 Pages: 1045-1046

    • DOI

      10.1093/jahist/jax496

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Review of Lisa Lowe's The Intimacies of Four Continents2016

    • Author(s)
      Etsuko Taketani
    • Journal Title

      Journal of American History

      Volume: 103 Pages: 722-724

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] アフリカ系アメリカ文学の地理的想像力ーーモンロー・ドクトリンの終焉2015

    • Author(s)
      竹谷悦子
    • Journal Title

      アメリカ研究

      Volume: 49 Pages: 99-117

    • NAID

      130008113854

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Black Female Geographies of Aero Mobility: Josephine Baker’s Airy-Fairy Globe Theater2017

    • Author(s)
      Etsuko Taketani
    • Organizer
      アメリカ学会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] The Archipelagic Black Pacific: African American Island Hopping and World War II2016

    • Author(s)
      Etsuko Taketani
    • Organizer
      Pacifisms: The Pacific as a Space of Resistance and Hybridity
    • Place of Presentation
      立教大学(東京都豊島区)
    • Year and Date
      2016-12-10
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] 航空時代の島嶼―アフリカ系アメリカ文学の地理的想像力―2016

    • Author(s)
      竹谷悦子
    • Organizer
      「アメリカ型グローバリズムと島嶼地域の社会的・文化的変容に関する研究」研究会
    • Place of Presentation
      琉球大学(沖縄県中頭郡)
    • Year and Date
      2016-11-28
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Book] Archipelagic American Studies2017

    • Author(s)
      Etsuko Taketani
    • Total Pages
      496
    • Publisher
      Duke University Press
    • ISBN
      9780822363460
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 『モンロー・ドクトリンの半球分割―トランスナショナル時代の地政学』2016

    • Author(s)
      竹谷悦子
    • Total Pages
      303
    • Publisher
      彩流社
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 『帝国と文化―シェイクスピアからアントニオ・ネグリまで』2016

    • Author(s)
      竹谷悦子
    • Total Pages
      510
    • Publisher
      春風舎
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Book] American Studies as Transnational Practice: Turning toward the Transpacific2015

    • Author(s)
      Etsuko Taketani
    • Total Pages
      407
    • Publisher
      Dartmouth College Press
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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