2021 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Exploring Typewritten Literary Manuscripts via Kerouac's "On the Road"
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18K00422
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| Research Institution | Kobe City University of Foreign Studies |
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Principal Investigator |
THEADO Matthew 神戸市外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (70733369)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | typewriter / typescript / American literature / 1950s / Jack Kerouac / Beat Generation |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
We held the major cultural exhibition "Discover America and the Beat Generation: Jack Kerouac Types 'On the Road' -- The Genealogy of a Counterculture through Publications.” This was a 30-day exhibition in Kobe, Japan, attended by more than 1,700 people. I delivered a series of five gallery talks open to the public. We also held an academic symposium, with important Japanese scholars and translators. All of these events were recorded by a professional videographer who posted them to Youtube where they are always available. There was also a movie showing introduced by Japanese scholars and translators.
The key piece of the exhibition was the replica of Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD typescript that was made by a Japanese printing company.
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