| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project researches the formation of discourse on and the representation of the “borderland” in contemporary American literature. Focusing mainly on analyzing Cormac McCarthy’s archival materials and bearing in mind the “border-crossing” of race, class, gender, religion, language, geography, biology, etc., this project demonstrates how the typical “American Character,” based on the Western, white, male-centered notion of the American “West,” is subverted, and questions the relation between the “American Self” and the multiculturalism of the Cold-War era. In so doing, this project clarifies the highly complicated ethical values inherent in McCarthy’s works.
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