2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Centrality of African American Intellectuals to the U.S.-Soviet Cultural Exchange in the Era of Artistic Modernism
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18520180
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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 |
ヨーロッパ語系文学
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| Research Institution | Rikkyo University (2007-2009)
Hitotsubashi University (2006) |
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Principal Investigator |
NITTA Keiko Rikkyo University, 文学部, 准教授 (40323737)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2006 – 2009
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| Keywords | アメリカ合衆国 / ソヴィエト連邦 / モダニズム / 黒人 / 文学批評 / 越境文化 / ハーレム・ルネサンス / 民族意識 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study has clarified the cultural and artistic connections between the United States and Soviet Russia, particularly ones that African American artists/intellectuals led from the 1920s to the 1960s. The detailed findings regarding such initiatives testify to a unique subject position of the Renaissance artists. Existing researches have demonstrated that their aesthetic subjectivity was inescapably under the colonial as well as commercial influences of white patrons. My study has, on the other hand, substantiated their contradictory independence, by which they tested the validity of their aesthetic concerns through their own international exchanges. Since the present study has verified the strain of activity up to the era of Cold War and Civil Rights Movement, a new dimension of the Harlem Renaissance's political initiative is at the same time authenticated.
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