2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Postcolonial Representation of Home in terms of the Literary Concept of 'American Tropics'
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21520288
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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 | Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2012
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| Keywords | アジア系アメリカ文学 / アメリカ帝国主義 / フィリピン系アメリカ文学 / ポスト コロニアリズム / 故国表象 |
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| Research Abstract |
I examined the concept of the literatures of the ‘American Tropics (the area of Pacific and Caribbean islands or countries that experienced Spanish and American colonialism) ’ and tried to find out why the Filipino, Cuban, Puerto Rican and Chamorro American immigrant authors stick to representing their homelands. After pointing out several shared visions of the authors (that is, 1. Home as a place to memorize and long for, but not a place to return to, 2. Strict criticism of the Spanish and American colonial rule, 3. Harsh accusation of American Imperialism), I found the themes of division, border crossing and mixed-blood as common and crucial to the authors. This new conceptual framework has so far proved to be vital for analyzing these literatures.
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Research Products
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