2018 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
日本文化に現れる日常の描写におけるジェンダー・セクシュアリティの可能性
| Project/Area Number |
18F18741
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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) |
TING GRACE 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) |
2018-07-25 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | gender / sexuality / feminism / queer / literature / popular culture |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
Since her arrival, the fellow has completed several academic articles related to her first book manuscript, as well as additional research using the library at Waseda University and other resources in the Tokyo area.
Her article “The Disgust and Desire of Sweets: Consuming Femininities through Shojo Manga,” forthcoming in 2019 in the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal, uses analyses of gendered Japanese popular culture to contribute to understandings of the relationship between food, femininities, and feminisms. Another article, titled “Ekuni Kaori’s Tears in the Night: The Brilliance of Queer Readings for Contemporary Japan,” is forthcoming in 2021 in the Journal of Japanese Studies and argues for the reevaluation of Japanese women writers as one way to challenge the “end of Japanese literature” narratives of the late 20th century and early 21st century.
In addition to these publications, she has given academic talks related to her research in Japan and in the United States. In October 2018 at Kanagawa University, she presented on “‘Lesbian’ Representation in Japanese Media,” discussing forms of female homoeroticism and homosociality found across multiple genres in Japanese popular culture. In March 2019, as part of the Yanai Initiative Symposium titled The Woman in the Story, she presented a paper titled “Waseda Bungaku’s ‘Women’s Issue’: Transnational Feminist Encounters in the Twenty-First Century,” which dealt with forms of academic and popular feminism found in a special issue of female contributors.
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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, the fellow’s research is proceeding as planned. By the summer of 2019, she will have finished a full draft of her first book manuscript, titled Minor Intimacies: Queerness, the Normative, and the Everyday in Contemporary Japan, which provides an original analysis of the intersections between queer theory, feminisms, and contemporary work by female cultural producers in Japan.
In addition, she is currently working on revisions for an additional academic article titled “Ogawa Yoko’s Intimate Horror: Femininities, Food, and Daily Life,” to be published in Japanese Language and Literature in 2019 or 2020 in a special issue on women and bodies. This article will be a major contribution to English-language scholarship on Ogawa, who has had much fiction translated into English but without equal academic attention.
Due to the amount of Japanese-language materials available in Tokyo, as well as the schedules of museums and other institutions outside of the Tokyo area, she did not travel to other areas in Japan as planned in order to conduct her research.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
During the rest of 2019 and the first half of 2020, the fellow will continue to present her work at international venues and work on her two book projects.
In the summer of 2019, she will chair a round table at the AAS-in-Asia Conference in Thailand in July, titled “Queer Asia 2: Texts, Readings, Flows,” on recent directions in the field of queer Asian studies, gathering experts on queer approaches in Japanese studies, Sinophone studies, Thai studies, and Asian American studies. This event is related to her second book project dealing with transnational flows of queer theory, feminisms, and popular culture in Asia. She will also present a paper on “‘Queer’ and ‘Feminist’ Webcomics in Japan” at the Modern Language Association International Symposium in Portugal in July, which will similarly deal with the transnational reception of Japanese popular culture.
By the fall of 2019, she will begin to revise her first book manuscript and continue to lay the groundwork for her second book project. Due to a desire to focus on resources in Japan, it is possible that she will not visit overseas archives elsewhere in Asia (as previously suggested) in order to allow for sufficient time to focus on gathering Japanese materials.
By early 2020, she will contact academic book publishers in the United States in order to secure a book contract for her first book manuscript.
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