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The U.S. Southern Exceptionalism and Ex-slave Narratives in the New Deal Era

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K13410
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionTokyo Institute of Technology (2018-2019)
Tokyo Metropolitan University (2017)

Principal Investigator

Yamane Ryoichi  東京工業大学, リベラルアーツ研究教育院, 准教授 (90770032)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywordsアメリカ南部例外主義 / William Faulkner / 冷戦 / 大恐慌 / 南北戦争 / プリントカルチャー / William Gilmore Simms / アメリカ文学 / 南部例外主義 / ウィリアム・フォークナー / ウィリアム・ギルモア・シムズ / ドナルド・デイビッドソン / 自由民主主義 / ヒルビリー / エドガー・アラン・ポー / ASA / 日本英文学会 / 日本フォークナー協会 / 英米文学 / アメリカ南部文学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examines the ways in which the US Southern exceptionalism shaped itself in the history of the nation's print culture, criticizing a wide range of literary texts about the regional identity: the former-slave narratives collecetd by Federal Writers' Project in the New Deal era, novels by the 1949 Nobel laureate William Faulkner, and various criticisms by agrarian critics in the 1930s and by cultural Cold Warriors that cemented Faulkner's high reputation, and works by William Gilmore Simms, one of the most productive writers in the 19th-century US South. Academic presentations on this topic were given in international conferences such as American Studies Association, International Poe & Hawthorne Conference, and also in major two conferences in Japan, the English Literary Society of Japan and the American Literature Society of Japan.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、一方で、自らの文化や伝統を例外化しようとするナルシシズム、内側からの南部例外主義がどのように形成されていったかを論じた。他方で、外側からの例外主義、つまり人種問題等を南部のことだけのこととして還元しようとする傾向についても、南北戦争時代から冷戦文化を含む様々な時代における文学テクスト内に探してきた。付言すれば、一貫性のある意思によってこの例外化が達成されたのではなく、むしろ本や雑誌の物流や形式を含む様々な物質的要因によって結果的に南部は例外化されていった。こうした理解は、近年より緊張度を高めるアメリカ分断社会の在り様を解釈するのに不可欠だ。

Report

(4 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Invited: 3 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] Unintentional Fallacy: The Formalist-Liberalist Obviations of Donald Davidson and William Gilmore Simms2020

    • Author(s)
      Ryoichi Yamane
    • Journal Title

      Polyphonia

      Volume: 12 Pages: 7-34

    • NAID

      40022530230

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Echoes of Silence: Old Bayard's Disability in Sartoris/Flags in the Dust2019

    • Author(s)
      Ryoichi Yamane
    • Journal Title

      FLS言語文化論集 Polyphonia

      Volume: 11 Pages: 37-55

    • NAID

      40021844403

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] “Why Do They Live at All”: On the Southern Pneumatology in Absalom, Absalom!2017

    • Author(s)
      Ryoichi Yamane
    • Journal Title

      STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

      Volume: 58 Pages: 21-38

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Presentation] 戦後ヒューマニズムとアメリカ南部例外主義――日本のフォークナー受容をめぐるプリント カルチャーについて2019

    • Author(s)
      山根 亮一
    • Organizer
      日本アメリカ文学会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Hillbilly, Esq.――Mountain Boysと大恐慌時代のプリントカルチャー2019

    • Author(s)
      山根 亮一
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Network Authors of the American South: Edgar Allan Poe and William Gilmore Simms2018

    • Author(s)
      Ryoichi Yamane
    • Organizer
      International Poe & Hawthorne Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] アメリカ南部のオルタナティヴ ―シムズ,ポー,フォークナーのデジタル・アーカイヴ―2018

    • Author(s)
      山根亮一
    • Organizer
      テクスト研究学会第18回大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] “Network Authors of the American South: Edgar Allan Poe and William Gilmore Simms”2018

    • Author(s)
      Ryoichi Yamane
    • Organizer
      International Poe and Howtherne Conference
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] William Gilmore Simms as a Node: Social Network of Antebellum Southern Exceptionalism2017

    • Author(s)
      Ryoichi Yamane
    • Organizer
      2017 Annual Meeting of American Studies Association
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 空のフォークナー文学――『標識塔<パイロン>をめぐるプリントカルチャーについて』(『空とアメリカ文学』 石原 剛 編著)2019

    • Author(s)
      山根亮一
    • Total Pages
      38
    • Publisher
      彩流社
    • ISBN
      9784779125980
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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