2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The representation of White Working-Class and Anti-Capitalism in Contemporary American Literature
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26770104
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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 | Prefectural University of Hiroshima |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | 労働者階級研究 / 白人性研究 / ジェンダー |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The writers in the 1980s and 1990s tend to manifest their political standpoints toward capitalism through their portrayal of ordinary daily lives of the American working-class rather than expressing radical political agendas. Such inclination will be more visible when compared with the proletarian literature in the early twentieth century or the progressive/experimental writings in the 1960s and 1970s. Many working-class fictions and poems in the '80s and '90s are commonly attentive to the material aspect of the working-class experiences, especially the quality of industrially produced food, a further study of which will be needed.
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| Free Research Field |
現代アメリカ文学
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