| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research investigates the representation of Japan by female travellers and writers in the British Empire across the periods of the two world wars. It outlines its shifts from a humane ally during the First World War to 'formidable fighting machines' through the Japanese imperial scheme with aggressive expansionism in Korea and China. It focuses on three writers, namely Elizabeth Keith, Priyambada Devi, and Ada Elizabeth Chesterton. It examines their writings in terms of gender, race, class, nationality, and occupation at the nexus of political ambitions of the two empires and personal relationships between the writers and their Japanese friends. The research opens up a new archive of long-forgotten writers and their Japan travelogues and contributes to such fields as literary criticism, postcolonial studies, and gender studies.
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