| Project/Area Number |
20K00459
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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 | Kansai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Keywords | Afro-pessimism / African American / W.E.B. Du Bois / Frederick Douglass / Frantz Fanon / Franck B. Wilderson, III / David Marriott / WEB Du Bois / Universalism / Founding Fathers / Agency / US Constitution / Constitution / Property |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Situated at the intersection of African American literature, history and political science, my research project is quite interdisciplinary and requires extensive theoretical background reading. I will therefore devote my first year to building as complete a bibliography as possible. Over the second year, I intend to develop my argument in the form of essays, and then chapters. The Founding Fathers’ principles, and most particularly the notion of property, will constitute the golden thread of my project throughout. In the third year, I want to start contacting potential academic publishers.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Over the research period, I nearly completed a monograph about Afro-pessimism, which I titled _Black Hopes/Black Woes: Early African American Optimism and Twenty-first Century Afro-pessimism_ (Routledge, upcoming). I am scheduled to submit the entire manuscript (including preface, introduction, chapters 1-3, coda, bibliography, and index) to my publisher in October 2024. I also co-edited a collection of essays about contemporary African American literature, _The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century_ (Brill, upcoming). In addition to a co-written twenty-page-long introduction about the topic, I contributed a lengthy essay, “Agency and Property in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad” to the collection, which comprises fourteen essays. As a whole, the collection covers all aspects of contemporary African American fiction.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
I nearly completed a monograph Black Hopes/Black Woes (Routledge, upcoming) and co-edited a collection of essays The African American Novel in the Early 21st Century (Brill, upcoming) for which I co-wrote the introduction and contributed an essay on Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
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