2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Representations of Shame in Modern American Literature and Culture
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22520271
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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 | Rikkyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
NITTA Keiko 立教大学, 文学部, 教授 (40323737)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | アメリカ合衆国 / 人種 / 恥辱 / 情動 / 南北戦争 / 奴隷制度 / 歴史認識 / 黒人 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study aims at conceptualizing shame as represented in modern American literature written between 1860 and 1950. Particularly in Japanese scholarly circumstances, since the publication of _The Chrysanthemum and Sword_ (1946) by anthropologist Ruth Benedict, we seem to have lost reasonable grounds for positively contemplating shame as a property of American culture. Once carefully investigated, however, American literature is full of representations of shame. This project aims at authenticating a framework of shame as a quintessential American experience. The most crucial element that engenders the powerful affect is the recognition of historically shifted racial relationship in the U.S. By a close investigation of literary, historical and theoretical sources, I have explored a solid and fertile layer of American culture, in which literary authors have attempted to develop representations of shame as resources for an ethical and political mode of self-presentation.
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[Book] Nineteenth-Century British Travelers in the New World2013
Author(s)
DeVine, Christine, ed. Keiko Nitta, Matthew Kaiser, Caroline Kisiel, John McBratney, Kendall McClellan, Lindsay Fincher, Elizabeth Deis, Lowell Frye, Nathalie Vanfasse, Hackler, Deborah Logan, Susan Casteras, Kalata Vaccaro
Total Pages
267-84
Publisher
London : Ashgate
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