Globality and Locality in Modernist Literatures: Reconsidering the Chronotope of Modernity

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23320062
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAI Asako 一橋大学, 大学院言語社会研究科, 教授 (10246001)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NAKAYAMA Toru 一橋大学, 大学院言語社会研究科, 教授 (60292489) ; MIURA Reiichi 一橋大学, 大学院言語社会研究科, 教授 (70262920) ; OCHI Hiromi 一橋大学, 大学院商学研究科, 教授 (90251727)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): UKAI Satoshi 一橋大学, 大学院言語社会研究科, 教授 (90213404) ; KONO Shintaro 一橋大学, 大学院商学研究科, 准教授 (30411101)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: モダニズム / ポストコロニアル批評 / 精神分析 / アメリカ南部文学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project aimed to reexamine the concept of modernism both from the special and temporal perspective. For that purpose, the members of the project, with the help of international co-researchers, worked individually and collectively to analyze the interrelations between locality and globality, and to construct a new theory on the chronotope of modernity. The main methods and outcomes are as follows: 1) theorizing modernism and modernity through critical close readings of canonical texts from the psychoanalytical as well as historical perspective; 2) reconsidering the chorotope of modernity by working on pluralized modernisms (i.e., texts of minorities and/or (post)colonial texts); 3) constructing a research network of transnational modernist studies by organizing lectures, symposiums and research workshops in cooperation with British and North American scholars.

Free Research Field

英文学、英語圏文学、批評理論