2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Mobility and the Literaty Imagination: American Modernism as the Narratives of Contact Zone
| Project/Area Number |
26884050
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Sophia University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-08-29 – 2016-03-31
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| Keywords | 20世紀アメリカ文学 / モダニズム / コンタクト・ゾーン / モビリティ |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project has successfully provided a new perspective to the critical studies on American literature in the age of modernism. By introducing the key terms, namely, mobility and the contact zone, this project has reexamine modernism as a literary movement from a broader perspective. I have closely investigated how human mobility and a variety of moments of "contact" (which sometimes means an exchange, at other times means a confrontation) it prompts shapes the way literary texts were created. And in so doing I remapped the interwar cultural landscapes of the United States which usually seems to be divided and made fragmentary based on racial, gender, and class differences but in fact more fluid and relational.
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| Free Research Field |
20世紀アメリカ文学
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