2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Representations of New York Urban Spaces in American Literature after the 9/11 Attacks
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24720123
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Kasei University |
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Principal Investigator |
NAMIKI YUKI 東京家政大学, 人文学部, 講師 (90626194)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | アメリカ文学 / アメリカ現代小説 / 地域文化研究 / 都市と文化 / 災害と文化 / 国際情報交換（アメリカ） |
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| Research Abstract |
First, I compiled a bibliography of primary and secondary sources on contemporary American literature and culture with a focus on its representation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their aftermath, and cultural theories on the urban space and its representation. I examined this in relation to my previous studies of modern New York and the use of skyscrapers clarifying disjunction as well as continuation in the tradition. Then, I examined individual works to find out how artists revisited the modern narrative of the city after the experience of destruction. In addition, I studied a group of novels that use mother-son relationships as symbols of resiliency in contextualizing traumatic experiences. To examine the topic in a broader context, I discussed Japanese artists' representation of New York/USA as well as Japanese works on past disasters and their traumas to initiate an internationally collaborative research project on disaster and its representations.
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