2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Criticism against Japanese Colonialism Depicted in Asian American Literature in terms of Violence, Gender and Race
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24520323
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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 | Gifu Shotoku Gakuen University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | アジア系アメリカ文学 / 日本植民地主義批判 / 太平洋戦争 / 真珠湾攻撃 / 従軍慰安婦 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The purpose of this research is to examine how the occupational periods of Imperial Japan are represented in Asian American literature. In recent years, not a few Asian American authors show their keen interests in the history of their Asian homeland, depicting Japanese occupation periods mostly in critical ways. I first made up a list of related literary works, then analyzed them both comprehensively and individually. I found a new tendency in which authors of younger generation depict historical episodes in somewhat critical but indirect manners, which seems to lead readers to evaluate the history by themselves.
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| Free Research Field |
アジア系アメリカ文学・文化
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