2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
African American Fiction and Fictions of the Founding Fathers
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20K00459
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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| Research Institution | Kansai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Afro-pessimism / African American / W.E.B. Du Bois / Frederick Douglass / Frantz Fanon |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Over the research period, I nearly completed a monograph about Afro-pessimism, which I titled _Black Hopes/Black Woes: Early African American Optimism and Twenty-first Century Afro-pessimism_ (Routledge, upcoming). I am scheduled to submit the entire manuscript (including preface, introduction, chapters 1-3, coda, bibliography, and index) to my publisher in October 2024. I also co-edited a collection of essays about contemporary African American literature, _The African American Novel in the Early Twenty-First Century_ (Brill, upcoming). In addition to a co-written twenty-page-long introduction about the topic, I contributed a lengthy essay, “Agency and Property in Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad” to the collection, which comprises fourteen essays. As a whole, the collection covers all aspects of contemporary African American fiction.
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| Free Research Field |
African American Studies
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
I nearly completed a monograph Black Hopes/Black Woes (Routledge, upcoming) and co-edited a collection of essays The African American Novel in the Early 21st Century (Brill, upcoming) for which I co-wrote the introduction and contributed an essay on Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad.
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