2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Interaction of Anderson, Hemingway and Wyndham Lewis, responding to the rise of African-American literature
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25370308
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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 | Chuo University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 人種 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research clarifies how Anderson, Hemingway and Wyndham Lewis responded to the spread and popularity of African-American literature, especially Harlem Renaissance, and explores the interaction between these three writers as to racial matters.
Anderson's novel Dark Laughter illustrates the impact of Cane on Anderson. Cane is a fictional work by Jean Toomer, a mixed-race writer of African-descent, and it challenges the taboo of mescegenation that dominated American Society. Dark Laughter reveals Anderson's confused response to that challenge. Dark Laughter is mocked by Hemingway and criticized by Lewis, but this mockery and criticism themselves shares the confusion and racial anxiety expressed in Dark Laughter.
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| Free Research Field |
英語圏文学
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