| Project/Area Number |
20520254
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
KOBAYASHI Fukuko Waseda University, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (00063751)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KAWARASAKI Yasuko 岐阜聖徳学園大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (80341808)
HIRAISHI Taeko 共立女子大学, 国際学部, 教授 (80060705)
TAMURA Ryo 早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 助手 (20507983)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2010)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2010: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2009: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2008: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
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| Keywords | アジア系アメリカ文学 / 基地 / 戦争 / 記憶 / 語り / 韓国系アメリカ文学 / フィリピン系アメリカ文学 / ベトナム系アメリカ文学 |
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| Research Abstract |
In order to explore what we call "Asian American literatures of the U.S. bases," we conducted a series of interviews with the writers of Japanese, Korean and Filipino origins, analyzing as well those works dealing with the issue of the U.S. military bases in Asia. As a result, we have come to gain the following insights : 1) By vividly depicting the everyday lives of common Asian people surrounding the U.S bases in Asia, those works seem to deconstruct the fixed image of the Americans as just and good people and Asians as the inferior "other" who need to be saved by the U.S. 2) they simultaneously show each writer's hope for the new kind of subjectivities more hybrid and multicultural, 3) they demonstrate that the perspectives of gender and postcolonialism should be essential to explore such themes as military prostitution, war brides and mixed children.
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