2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
African American Global Imaginary
| Project/Area Number |
15K02333
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | African Americans / Air-Age Globalism / Walter White / Edith Sampson |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project proposes to revisit a spatial paradigm shift that occurred in the 1940s United States, which imagined a break with the long-accepted Mercator projection―a shift that, I suggest, had a significant bearing on the African American planetary imaginary. Mercator’s map rapidly lost its narrative power during World War II. Instead, an innovative cartography adopting an aerial perspective―popularized by Richard Edes Harrison’s “One World, One War” map, drawn in an azimuthal projection centered on the North Pole―represented the United States’ fresh world outlook. It ushered in what Alan K. Henrikson has termed “air-age globalism.” By examining the air travels of Walter White and Edith Sampson, who navigated this changing spatial context, this project examines what I term “the black global imaginary.”
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| Free Research Field |
米文学
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