2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Black Pacific Narrative
| Project/Area Number |
24520271
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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 | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
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| Keywords | アフリカ系アメリカ文学 / 地理的想像力 / 環太平洋 / 帝国 / 人種 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
My project chronicles the profound shift in geographic imaginings that occurred in African American literature between the World Wars. Specifically, it examines the narrative of what I call the “black Pacific”―the literary and cultural production of African American narratives of the Pacific in the face of America’s efforts to internationalize the Pacific and to institute a “Pacific Community,” reflecting a vision of a hemispheric regional order initiated and led by the United States. The black Pacific was imagined contrapuntally to this regional order in the making.
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| Free Research Field |
米文学
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