| Project/Area Number |
21K00340
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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 | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
阿部 幸大 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 助教 (40991013)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2024)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
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| Keywords | aerial archives / Occupied Japan / Theodor Seuss Geisel / Lorraine Hansberry / Hiroshima / The nuclear Pacific / Horton Hears a Who! / Malcolm X / Nation of Islam / Mother Plane / 9/11 / A Raisin in the Sun / What Use Are Flowers? / transnational aeriality / aeriality / Japan |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This project examines what I heuristically term “aerial archives.” Aerial archives operate as an archiving system, recording paradigm shifts in aeriality. I analyze the ways in which an aerial perspective can make legible a new constellation of concerns that came to occupy the attention of authors.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Aeriality has emerged as one of the most defining perceptual and cognitive practices of the 20th century. This project explores how aerial power/knowledge was exercised transnationally in occupied Japan (1945-1952), thereby shaping American literary and cultural production. It examines a diverse but select set of what we heuristically call aerial archives. The operational definition of this term refers to texts, literary or otherwise, that operate as archiving systems, representing and relating a shift in the aerial imagination and the corollary shifting ground of (human) races on the planet Earth that it caused.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Our discussion of aerial archives entails an examination of a grounding in the fields of literary and cultural studies and, in particular, of investments in the terrestrial divisions of the planet during recent transatlantic, hemispheric, transpacific, and archipelagic turns in American studies.
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