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2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Native American Representation in Herman Melville's Novels

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15520209
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field ヨーロッパ語系文学
Research InstitutionFukuoka University

Principal Investigator

OSHIMA Yukiko  Fukuoka University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (40168919)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) OGURA Izumi  Daito Bunka University, Faculty of Law, Professor, 法学部, 教授 (00185563)
Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2006
KeywordsAmerican literature / Herman Melville / Native American representation / the Pequot
Research Abstract

Yukiko Oshima studied the representation of Native Americans by a 19^<th> century American writer, Herman Melville (1819-1891). While Melville's African representations have been explored by critics since Carolyn Karcher's groundbreaking Shadow over the Promised Land (1980), Native American representation has suffered long neglect, although such representation should be weighed as heavily as the African question for Melville. Oshima has extracted Native American elements from Melville's major novels such as Moby-Dick, Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence Man and show how they extend into "John Marr," his late work.
Oshima along with Izumi Ogura focused on the gap between the Pequot War accounts and historical "facts." Ogura, whose special field is Puritan studies, analyzed how the white settler desire to expand their land made them uphold the idea of "natural right." Ogura analyzed this in a monograph John Cotton and Puritanism and, in details, another full-length analysis of the war. Oshima explored the war from Native American perspectives focusing on the relevant works, such as Moby-Dick whose setting is a whaler named after the tribe and Israel Potter whose protagonist Potter is once compared to a Pequot slave, and concluded Melville had significant knowledge of the tribe. Oshima, through her exploration of Melville's other treatment of Amerindian tribes, concluded that one of the unique characteristics of Melville is his ability to imagine the racial Other: significant characters assume their voices and gestures.

  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003

All Journal Article (11 results)

  • [Journal Article] Native America in The Confidence-Man2007

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko OSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Leviathan Vol.8, No.3

      Pages: 51-60

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Reading Israel Potter as National Amnesia : What to the "Impounded Pequod" Slave is the Fourth of July?2006

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko OSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Sky-Hawk(日本メルヴィル研究センター) 22号

      Pages: 5-14

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] From Hope Leslie to Moby-Dick2006

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko OSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Ungraspable Phantom (Kent State Universety Press) 38巻2号

      Pages: 238-251

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 「ジョン・マー」に見る転覆のメカニズム-"flower of life"と先住民を巡って2006

    • Author(s)
      大島由起子
    • Journal Title

      福岡大学人文論叢(福岡大学)

      Pages: 489-508

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Native America in The Confidence-Man : Quite an Original Satire and Scene2006

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko OSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Leviathan (国際メルヴィル学会) 8巻3号

      Pages: 51-60

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Reading Israel Potter as National Amnesia : What to the Impounded Pequod Slave is the Fourth of July?2006

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko OSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Sky Hawk (Japan Melville Study Center) 22号

      Pages: 5-14

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] From Hope Leslie to Moby-Dick, John Bryant, Mary K. Bercaw Edwards, Timothy Marr (eds.) Ungraspable Phantom : Essays on Moby-Dick2006

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko OSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Kent State University Press

      Pages: 238-251

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Subversive Mechanism in John Marr--On flower of life2006

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko OSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Fukuoka University Faculty of Humanities Bulletin Vol.38, NO.2

      Pages: 489-508

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 「ルイス・オーエンズの『白鯨』評 に学ぶー先住民ゆえの慧眼と死角と」(or, Lewis Owens on Moby-Dick-Native American Perspective and Limitation2005

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko OSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Fukuoka University Faculty of Humanities Bulletin A. Vol.4, NO.9

      Pages: 15-34

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 「The Confidence-Manに潜む先住民」(or, Native American Lurking in The Confidence-Man)2004

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko OSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Eigo Seinenn, (or The Rising Generation,) 2004-March

      Pages: 12-14

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Isabel as a Native America Ghost in Saddle Meadows2003

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko OSHIMA
    • Journal Title

      Leviathan Vol.5, No.2.

      Pages: 5-17

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2008-05-27  

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