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2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Politics of Aging in American Literature

Research Project

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Project/Area Number 22520258
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionKyoto Prefectural University

Principal Investigator

KANAZAWA Satoshi  京都府立大学, 文学部, 教授 (70233848)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) KASHIHARA Kazuko  関西外国語大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (90330216)
ISHIDUKA Noriko  同志社大学, 文学部, 教授 (80257790)
TSUKADA Yukihiro  関西学院大学, 法学部, 教授 (40513908)
Project Period (FY) 2010 – 2012
Keywords米文学
Research Abstract

The aim of this project was to establish the politics of aging in the study of American Literature in Japan. The politics of aging is based on the new understanding of aging proposed by American feminists in 1990s. This new view holds that aging is not a natural phenomenon but in fact constituted by social ideology. This view brings about new dimensions of aging where we have multiple choices of the way of our aging. However, these choices are not available in the free private space but always in the political field of social discourse. Hence the importance of the idea of politics of aging, by which we can make clear just this political nature of aging. The idea is also useful for providing a new insight to the study of American Literature. By focusing on how characters reflect the political nature of aging or the way authors decide their own way of aging, the idea of politics of aging brings forth new field in the study of American Literature.The most important achievement of our project is a book we published in 2012, The Politics of Aging in American Literature(In Japanese. Ed. Satoshi Kanazawa. Kyoto: Shorai-sha, 2012). In this book we collect ten papers, each of which sheds a new light on some works of modern American Literature by focusing various aspects of aging reflected in these works. This is really an important step to establish the politics of aging in American Literature Study in Japan and invigorate the academic filed by introducing the new point of argument. Thus we have made a significantachievement by this project.

  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2013 2012 2010

All Journal Article (3 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results) Presentation (4 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] ハリーの逃走:"The Wild Palms" におけるペン/ペニス2013

    • Author(s)
      金澤哲
    • Journal Title

      コルヌコピア

      Volume: 22/23 Pages: 39-55

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] オールド・ニューヨークの亡霊-イーディス・ウォートンの「ホルバインにならって」2010

    • Author(s)
      石塚則子
    • Journal Title

      同志社大学英語英文学研究

      Volume: 86/87 Pages: 27-52

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 「男たち」の『寓話』--「馬泥棒に関する覚え書き」を読む2010

    • Author(s)
      金澤哲
    • Journal Title

      ALBION

      Volume: 56 Pages: 87-101

    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] Framing Desire/Hemingway-四角、斜線、視線-2010

    • Author(s)
      塚田幸光
    • Organizer
      日本ヘミングウェイ協会第21回全国大会シンポジウム「ヘミングウェイと映画」
    • Place of Presentation
      関東学院大学
    • Year and Date
      2010-12-25
  • [Presentation] Becoming/Framing Soldiers-ハスフォード、キューブリック、『フルメタル・ジャケット』-2010

    • Author(s)
      塚田幸光
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会関西支部第5回大会シンポジウム「英米文学と映像」
    • Place of Presentation
      大阪市立大学
    • Year and Date
      2010-12-18
  • [Presentation] Caribbean Blood Cross: Eating and Body Politics in Ernest Hemingway'sThe Old Man and the Sea2010

    • Author(s)
      塚田幸光
    • Organizer
      The 2nd ASLE-Korea and ASLE-Japan Joint-Symposiumon Literature and Environment / Ecology, Consumption, and Otherness
    • Place of Presentation
      Sungkyunkwan University
    • Year and Date
      2010-10-10
  • [Presentation] Accepting Aging in an Ageist Society: "Aging" in John Updike's Fiction from Rabbit, Runto the Later Short Storie2010

    • Author(s)
      柏原和子
    • Organizer
      The First Biennial John Updike Society Conference
    • Place of Presentation
      Alvernia University
    • Year and Date
      2010-10-03
  • [Book] 交錯する映画アニメ・映画・文学2013

    • Author(s)
      塚田幸光、他
    • Total Pages
      324
    • Publisher
      ミネルヴァ書房
  • [Book] アメリカ文学における「老い」の政治学2012

    • Author(s)
      金澤哲(編著者)、柏原和子、石塚則子、塚田幸光、他
    • Total Pages
      315
    • Publisher
      松籟社
  • [Book] 映画とネイション2010

    • Author(s)
      塚田幸光、他
    • Total Pages
      296
    • Publisher
      ミネルヴァ書房

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Published: 2014-08-29  

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