2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
The Gendered Experience of Hansen's Disease in Literature and Public Discourse
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20K12936
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| Research Institution | University of Hyogo |
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Principal Investigator |
田中 キャサリン 兵庫県立大学, 国際商経学部, 准教授 (50740049)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | gender / Hansen’s disease / leprosy literature / Japanese literature / cinema / poetry |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This year I made several academic presentations based on my research (“‘Leprosy’ in Translation: Lois Johnson Erickson and Hansen’s Disease in Japan,”“Women and Medicine in the Japanese Empire” 3rd virtual symposium; From Private Trauma to Public Memory: Hansen's Disease
Poetry and Social Reconciliation, Global Japanese Studies Research Workshop, Osaka University; Heterglossia and the Poetics of Kojima no Haru, and all of them virtual and open to the public. In particular, the presentations I gave drew on two different chapters for my book and one book chapter about Ogawa Masako (Heterglossia and the Poetics of Kojima no Haru; Medical Culture in East Asian Cinema and Media) and gender in a volume on the body in East Asian cinema that is forthcoming in summer 2022. I also have several additional presentations on the remaining book chapters scheduled for 2022, both in person and online, and the work on the book manuscript continues at a good pace despite limited access to archival materials.
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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
With limited access to archives some portions of the research are slightly delayed but others have progressed more smoothly than expected so that overall I am on schedule.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
In 2022 I plan to publish a book chapter on Ogawa Masako and complete the remaining archival research that allows me to finish a draft on the book that can be sent to publishers. I will also make several academic and publish presentations this year. I hope, if time permits, to also publish some translations of the writers I have been working on.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due to the ongoing novel Coronavirus pandemic travel for conferences and archival research was not possible.
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