2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of Representations of Race and Gender in American Literature
| Project/Area Number |
20520252
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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 | Japan Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
SUGIYAMA Naoko Japan Women's University, 人間社会学部, 教授 (20213506)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 人種 / ジェンダー / 越境 / パッシング / 女性作家 / マキシーン・ホン・キングストン / デインジー・セナ |
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| Research Abstract |
By analyzing novels by American minority women such as Maxine Hong Kingston and Danzy Senna, I found that gender transgression leads us to reconsider the relationship of gender and peace/violence duality and race passing to reconsider the construction of "American" identity itself, and that therefore gender and race transgression is the important theme to be explored further.
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