2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study on Eighteenth-Century African-British Writers and the Literature of Abolition Movement
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20520223
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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 |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Aichi University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
KUNO Yoichi Aichi University of Education, 教育学部, 教授 (40242888)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 英文学 / 18世紀 / アフリカ系作家 |
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| Research Abstract |
As a result of this study on eighteenth-century African-British writers, papers on the following topics were published : (1) Francis Williams as one of the first self-conscious black writers ; (2) The identity of Ignatius Sancho as the first black composer of music and a man of sensibility who successfully assimilated into European culture ; (3) Olaudah Equiano's double consciousness in his uses of Igbo vocabulary.
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