English and American Literary Studies in the Post-Pacific War Era: Transpacific Literary Imagination and Politics

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24320055
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: OCHI Hiormi 一橋大学, 大学院商学研究科, 教授 (90251727)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): INOUE Mayumo 一橋大学, 大学院言語社会研究科, 准教授 (50511630) ; YOSHIHARA Yukari 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 准教授 (70249621) ; SAITO Hajime 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 准教授 (20302341) ; MIURA Reiichi 一橋大学, 大学院言語社会研究科, 教授 (70262920)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 冷戦 / 英米文学研究 / 占領期 / トランスパシフィック / リベラリズム / 広島 / 沖縄 / 台湾

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The goal of this project is to explore how the transpacific cultural (and hegemonic) negotiation between the two countries operated in the reformulation of Japanese culture and academic discipline of English studies and American literary studies during World War II and the post-war era. It specifically focuses on (1) analysis of what influence the introduction of modernist culture and literature had on Japanese culture and English and American literary studies in Japan with (dis)continued factors between pre-war and post-war eras; (2) analysis and theorization of how Japanese culture and English and American literary studies have been instrumental in the formation of post-war liberalism, and globalization and neoliberalist regime in the context of mutual negotiation of culture and imagination between the U.S. and Japan; and (3) establishment of a scholarly network with leading Californian institutions and scholars.

Free Research Field

アメリカ文学