Beyond Cli-Fi: Exanding the Boundaries of American Climate Literature
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20K00446
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima City University |
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Principal Investigator |
ゴーマン マイケル 広島市立大学, 国際学部, 教授 (20625892)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | Climate Fiction (Cli-Fi) / rural alliances / Environmental Crisis / Environmental Justice / Petrocolonialism / Lake Superior / Slow Violence / Water Protectors / Civil Disobedience / Climate Crisis / Environmental Humanities |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
2020--Research the Climate Crisis in American literature and culture.
2021--Conduct research and deepen professional contacts in America.
2022--Expand knowledge about visual art and environmental issues; visit museums and galleries.
2023--Disseminate research findings at conferences and workshops.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the third year of this kaken project I investigated historical events, issues, legacies, and transnational movements reflected in environmental literature and cultural texts. For instance, I explored logging’s links to destruction of salmon habitat and water contamination depicted in Ash Davidson’s 2021 Damnation Spring. Texts including Winona LaDuke’s To Be a Water Protector (2020) and Zoltan Grossman’s Unlikely Alliances (2017) helped me extrapolate lessons from Davidson’s novel set in northern California’s redwood country during the late 1970s and make connections to contemporary environmental justice movements and interracial rural alliances working to defend indigenous rights and resist the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure in Canada and the United States.
Accomplishments include 1) conducting research overseas to learn about the Lake Superior and Mississippi River watersheds; 2) learning about the history of the Anishinaabe people in the Great Lakes region and reserved Treaty Rights by visiting the Fond du Lac Cultural Center and Museum; 3) learning about Anishinaabe culture by attending an exhibit of Rabbett Before Horses Strickland’s paintings at the Madeline Island Museum, a performance of “Anishinaabe Dibaajimowin: An Ojibwe Story,” a poetry reading by Denise Sweet and Frank Montano, Red Cliff Cultural Days, and Honor the Earth’s Water Is Life Festival; 4) learning about the environment and history of the Great Lakes region from exhibits at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor’s Center and the Great Lakes Aquarium.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The research project is progressing steadily in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic. This is partly due to two overseas research trips made possible by the kaken funding.
An August-September 2022 research trip to the United States has contributed substantially to my knowledge of art/literature response to the Climate/Environmental Crisis, the history and culture of the Lake Superior, the treaty rights of the Anishinaabe people, and the threat posed to the Great Lakes by extractive industries and the military industrial complex. This understanding will shape my research and scholarly production in the final year of the kaken project.
In October 2022, I attended the Western Literature Association conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, where I presented a conference paper, attended informative panel presentations, and formed meaningful contacts with other academics.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Over the next couple of years, I will make use of the material and experiences gathered during the third year of the kaken project for lectures, conference papers, and publications.
In October 2023, I intend to present a paper at the 2023 Western Literature Conference in Idaho, USA. Other venues where I intend to present research findings include the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment (ASLE US) biennial conference in the summer of 2025, the Society for the Study of Literature and the Environment (Japan), and the HPI English Lecture Series.
In terms of publishing I am writing a monograph exploring representations of the environmental crisis and resistance to petrocolonialism and co-editing a book collection for which I will contribute an article using research conducted for the kaken project. In addition to these projects already in progress, over the next couple of years I intend to submit articles to Western American Literature (WAL), Cather Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies of Literature and the Environment (ISLE), and Ecocriticism Review.
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