2016 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
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16F16746
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
十重田 裕一 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (40237053)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MITCHELL ARTHUR 早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 外国人特別研究員
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-07-27 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | モダニズム / メディア / 平林たい子 / 戦間期のファミニズム / 愛 / 性 / 婦人問題 |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
I have utilized the Waseda library collection to conduct the research necessary for my final book chapter on Hirabayashi Taiko. My book seeks to uncover links between the language of modernist texts and the discourses of the mass media. Thus, in addition to researching Hirabayashi’s works, I have surveyed mass magazines in the 1920s (e.g. Fujin koron, Josei kaizo), collecting articles related to discourses that are relevant to Hirabayashi’s texts. Specifically, I looked at the discourses of love (愛), sexuality (性), and women’s issues (婦人問題). In addition to this research, I have finalized my introductory and first chapter and have completed a book proposal, which I have sent to three academic presses: Columbia University Press, Oxford University Press, and Johns Hopkins University Press.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
Overall, I have made steady and significant progress in the research for my book on Japanese modernism. The open-stack collection of periodicals at Waseda’s Central Library, the resources provided by Waseda University (e.g. housing and office space), the research funds provided by the JSPS, and the support of Professor Toeda has made it possible to conduct my research extremely efficiently. Regarding the research project itself, I have decided to cut the planned chapter on Hayashi Fumiko and instead focus my attention for my final research segment completely on Hirabayashi Taiko. The six-chapter book will thus become a five-chapter book. But this has allowed to me to focus in-depth on a single writer while making the argument of the overall manuscript more streamlined and economical.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In the months remaining, I plan to draft and edit the final chapter on Hirabayashi Taiko’s modernist fiction based on my investigations of the mass media discourses of love, sexuality, and women’s issues in the 1920s. I also to plan to revise and edit two previous chapters, one on the urban fiction of Yokomitsu Riichi and one on Kawabata Yasunari’s novel Asakusa kurenaidan. With that, I will have completed the first draft of my book manuscript, which I will send to interested university presses in the United States. I will also give a presentation of my research on Hirabyashi Taiko at the American Comparative Literature Association Conference, which will take place in July in Utrecht, Netherlands.
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