2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Creole Women's Responsibility for Decolonisation in the British West Indies
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26570017
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Gender
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| Research Institution | Aichi University of Education |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | ジェンダー / ポストコロニアル / 植民地責任 / 英領西インド / 英連邦ドミニカ / クリオール女性 / ジーン・リース / フィリス・オーフリー |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aim of this study was to find out how the Creole women born in the British West Indies would recognise their responsibility for the colonisation and decolonisation in their home island.
I made a focus mainly on the two Creole women, such as Jean Rhys(1890-1979) and Phyllis Allfrey(1908-1986), and examined their written works including a lot of unknown short stories and well known novels.
With a number of other written materials, such as newpaper articles and the governmental papers both in the UK and the Commonwealth of Dominica, I was able to make it clear that the two women were forced to have complicated state of mind towards the decolonisation in their home island while they had strong sympathy for 'their people' who once supported their lives as servants and labourers.
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| Free Research Field |
ジェンダー論、ポストコロニアル
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