2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Political, Cultural, and Psychoanalytical Aspects of Hearing and Gender
| Project/Area Number |
13610560
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
英語・英米文学
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Gakugei University |
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Principal Investigator |
ZETTSU Tomoyuki Tokyo Gakugei University, Dept. of English, Associate Professor, 教育学部・第一部・言語文学第二学科, 助教授 (40262216)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NITTA Keiko Tokyo Gakugei University, Dept. of English, Associate Professor, 教育学部・第一部・言語文学第二学科, 助教授 (40323737)
KONDO Hiroyuki Tokyo Gakugei University, Dept. of English, Associate Professor, 教育学部・第一部・言語文学第二学科, 助教授 (00302901)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2002
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| Keywords | hearing / gender / music / Cold War / sexual violence / Orientalism / marriage / Shakespeare |
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| Research Abstract |
This study aims at throwing new light on the relationship between "hearing" and gender in its political, cultural, and psychoanalytical aspects. By introducing the concept of "hearing" to the classic feminist studies of "looking" and its power politics, we have examined various literary/cultural phenomena while focusing on many ambiguous ways of engendering power, which cannot be subsumed into the simplistic binary of the "looking" subject and the "looked" object. Throughout this study, we have addressed the following two issues : 1) How do spoken words or sounds addressed to a person (in the form of literary as well as cultural utterances) influence his/her gender identity? 2) How are such auditory operations connected with the question of power?
To clarify these issues, we have covered a wide range of topics and materials. Focusing on twentieth-century American literature, Tomoyuki Zettsu has pointed out that poetic as well as dramatic utterances often engender "floating signifiers," thereby enabling the auditory subversion of gender identities. With emphasis on political feminism, moreover, Keiko Nitta has investigated Asian-American literary culture to find that "silence" figures largely at the intersection of different national identities. In addition, Hiroyuki Kondo has demonstrated the ways in which theatrical voices enact gender-related sufferings, calling attention to a variety of British dramatists from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett.
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Research Products
(20 results)
