2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Representation of the Body, Race, and Hybridity in the Interwar South
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23520338
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Chukyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
MORI Arinori 中京大学, 国際英語学部, 教授 (50262829)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011 – 2013
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| Keywords | フォークナー / 南部 / 大戦間期 / ハイブリディティ / クィア / 人種 / 精神分析 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research aims to clarify that the transition of the white male body images in the interwar South reflects the relativity between racial and ethnic compositions of white people and their self-fashioning, especially focusing on its social and cultural aspects. This research has proved that racial hybridity in the American South has long been a figure of sexual perversities/variety, as well as the class consiciousness of the white middle class.
This research mainly deals with Willam Faulkner's novels in 1930s and 1940s, while some contemporary literary works such as Jean Webster's Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy.
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