| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2011: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research examined attitudes to the environment in literary and social discourses on food and eating primarily in Japan and the United States, with a critical focus on issues of toxicity. There are two major findings. 1. In literary approaches to food and toxicity, there is a subtle yet continuous focus on local people’s act of eating local food while knowing of its toxicity. This stands in sharp contrast with the major social attention to food risks and safety. Examining various discourses, this research elucidated a much broader and deeper perspective of literary practices which encompass different values. 2. Comparing American literary approaches, this research found that a focus on people’s knowingly eating locally sourced toxic food is recognized mostly in Japanese literature. This might reflect a difference between a shared interest in human kinship with nature in Japan and that of the environmental turn in the United States, as argued in this research.
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