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African American Women Writers in the Air-Atomic Era

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00367
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
Research InstitutionUniversity of Tsukuba

Principal Investigator

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

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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)
Keywordsジョセフィン・ベーカー / ロレイン・ハンズベリー / エセル・ペイン / 航空時代 / 原爆 / 占領ベビー / ヒロシマ / 航空写真 / Beate Sirota Gordon / Douglas MacArthur / ブラウン・ベイビー / 占領期日本 / Lorraine Hansberry / A Raisin In the Sun / Hiroshima / aerial archive / 虹の部族 / 地下空間 / African Americans / women / literature / atomic airpower age / Japan
Outline of Final Research Achievements

A turn to transnational aeriality in the mid-twentieth century United States changed the way of seeing the Earth, races, and species, and their relationships to one another and to the environment. This project examines a diverse but select set of what I heuristically call aerial archives. The operative definition of this term refers to texts (literary, visual, material, or otherwise) that operate as archiving systems, representing a shift in aeriality and the corollary shifting ground of race―and the human race―that it caused.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

近年のアメリカ文学研究は、トランスナショナルな視座への転回と連携し、地表レベルのメタジオグラフィー(海洋、半球、島、島嶼)に依拠し、間大西洋、半球、環太平洋、島嶼といった空間論的な展開を見せてきた。本研究は「航空アーカイヴ」という概念を導入し、新しいアフリカ系アメリカ文学研究の方法論を呈示するものである。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2021 2019 2018

All Journal Article (6 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 5 results) Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Aerial Archives: American-Occupied Japan2021

    • Author(s)
      Etsuko Taketani
    • Journal Title

      Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies: Evidence, Transmission, and Inheritance in Japanese Literature and Media

      Volume: 20 Pages: 3-13

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia2021

    • Author(s)
      Taketani Etsuko
    • Journal Title

      Journal of American History

      Volume: 108 Issue: 1 Pages: 154-154

    • DOI

      10.1093/jahist/jaab097

    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] ハーレム・ルネサンス再訪2019

    • Author(s)
      竹谷悦子
    • Journal Title

      日本アメリカ文学会東京支部会報

      Volume: 80 Pages: 1-2

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] ハーレム・ルネサンスの制度化―都市空間と時代区分2019

    • Author(s)
      竹谷悦子
    • Journal Title

      日本アメリカ文学会東京支部会報

      Volume: 80 Pages: 3-10

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Review of Tricksters and Cosmopolitans: Cross-Cultural Collaborations in Asian American Literary Production, and East-West Literary Imagination: Cultural Exchanges from Yeats to Morrison2019

    • Author(s)
      Taketani Etsuko
    • Journal Title

      American Literature

      Volume: 91 Issue: 4 Pages: 895-897

    • DOI

      10.1215/00029831-7917440

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Review of Facing the Rising Sun: African Americans, Japan, and the Rise of Afro-Asian Solidarity, by Gerald Horne2018

    • Author(s)
      Etsuko Taketani
    • Journal Title

      Modernism / Modernity

      Volume: 25 Issue: 4 Pages: 839-841

    • DOI

      10.1353/mod.2018.0064

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 空から読むアメリカ占領期の日本2019

    • Author(s)
      竹谷悦子
    • Organizer
      日本語日本文化フォーラム 復旦大学 上海
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] ハーレム・ルネサンスの制度化―空間的含意と「時代区分」2018

    • Author(s)
      竹谷悦子
    • Organizer
      日本アメリカ文学会東京支部
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] ‘Aerial Archive’: Postwar-Occupied Japan2018

    • Author(s)
      Etsuko Taketani
    • Organizer
      27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies, University of California, Berkeley
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Book] Trans-Pacific Americanism (edited by Takayuki Tatsumi)2019

    • Author(s)
      Etsuko Taketani
    • Total Pages
      284
    • Publisher
      Sage Publications
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Book] American Literature in Transition: 1930-1940 (edited by Ichiro Takayoshi)2018

    • Author(s)
      Etsuko Taketani
    • Total Pages
      458
    • Publisher
      Cambridge University Press
    • ISBN
      9781108429382
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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