The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Orientalism in African American Literature

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370290
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Tsuru University
• Principal Investigator: NAKACHI SACHI 都留文科大学, 文学部, 教授 (50247087)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ジャポニスム / 大西洋奴隷貿易 / アフリカ系アメリカ文学 / モダニズム / 英語俳句 / プリミティヴィズム / オリエンタリズム / 人種問題

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This was a research to examine African American Orientalism in literature and its's relation with the Transatlantic slave trade. Japonisme is considered as the Euro-American cultural movement among white artists, but actually African American writers also responded to the movement. But it is also important to understand that　African American writers were conscious of racism in the system of Orientalism. Nella Larsen criticized it in her novel, Quicksand. In Richard Wright's Haiku, his protest against racism is also found.

Free Research Field

アメリカ文学