2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Rural Texts, Global Contexts: Willa Cather's Cosmopolitan Imagination
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16K02501
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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 | Hiroshima City University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Keywords | Cosmopolitanism / Imperialism / Modernism / Rurality / Boxer Rebellion / Willa Cather / World War I / Slow Violence |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
With this project, I sought to expand the critical understanding of Willa Cather, a writer traditionally considered a celebrant of Euroamerican culture. In order to reveal her global significance and contemporary relevance, I explored multicultural, cosmopolitan, and transnational themes in her writing and personal statements. Specifically, I deepened my familiarity with American indigenous civilization and scoured Cather’s texts for allusions to indigenous themes, learned about Chinese customs practiced in America and used this knowledge to analyze early stories with Chinese characters, and explored Cather’s writing in relation to sustainability and the environmental crisis.
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| Free Research Field |
American Literature
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究の学術的・社会的意義は、これまでリージョナルな作家、あるいはヨーロッパとの関連性を中心とした文化的検証に限定されてきたウィラ・キャザー研究の拡大に貢献したことにある。キャザーのアジアへの関心やアメリカにおける周縁化された人びとに対する共感に光を当てると同時に、アメリカ例外主義、セトラー・コロニアリズム、帝国主義に対するキャザーの鋭い認識を明らかにした。
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