2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Studies on the bright and dark sides of orientalism in Meiji Era

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21520251
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Kobe University
Principal Investigator	TODA Masaru 神戸大学, 国際文化学研究科, 教授 (60148484)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	比較文学
Research Abstract	The term "orientalism" is widely used to describe a prejudiced Western attitude, both academic and artistic, toward the East. It is supposed to be closely related to imperialism and colonialism in the 18th and 19th centuries. However, it played a different role in Meiji Japan. It was accepted as a new way of interpretation and representation, and changed the traditional way of seeing and telling native things. We found out such cases in the writings of Basil Hall Chamberlain and Lafcadio Hearn.

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