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Literature in the Interstices: Representations of the Empire of Japan by British Female Scientists and British Wives and Daughters of Japanese Men

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K16786
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionNara Women's University

Principal Investigator

Kumojima Tomoe  奈良女子大学, 理系女性教育開発共同機構, 講師 (50737434)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords旅行記研究 / ジェンダー / クリティカル・ミックス・レイス・スタディーズ / トランスナショナル・フェミニズム / Matilda Chaplin Ayrton / Marie Stopes / Yei Theodora Ozaki / 女性科学者 / 女性とネットワーク / 旅行記 / Mixed Race Studies / 文学的外交 / 日露戦争 / 植民地主義 / ジェンダー科学史 / ジェンダー外交史 / 英米文学
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study investigates travel writing and Japanese-themed fiction by two British female scientists, Matilda Chaplin Ayrton and Marie Stopes, and an Anglo-Japanese female writer Yei Theodora Ozaki, who visited or lived in Japan between 1853 and 1945. It demonstrates their act of transgressing or negotiating institutional boundaries through writing in the interstices of gender and race. It also highlights the newly-opened Japan as a locus where the women writers, encouraged by a more liberal femininity in the late Victorian period, could produce alternative discourses.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究成果の学術的意義は、英文学研究の旅行記研究分野において取り残されている女性による日本関連旅行記に注目することで、日本との繋がりが可能にした女性科学者達の学際的活動を明らかにしたこと、またイギリス系日本人女性作家の作品に注目する事で、クリティカル・ミックス・レイス・スタディーズに興味深い一例を提供している事である。
また社会的意義は、女性に高等教育の機会が与えられた初期の女性科学者及びミックス・レイスの女性作家の活動の調査を通して、少数派の活躍における相互支援コミュニティの存在の重要性について改めて確認している事である。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Products Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2022 2019 2017

All Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Presentation] Gothic Sisterhood: Victorian Women Travellers and Transnational Empathy in Ghostly Japan2019

    • Author(s)
      Tomoe Kumojima
    • Organizer
      Gothic Spaces: Houses, Landscapes
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] ‘A daughter of the East, a Child of the West’: Yei Theodora Ozaki, Anglo-Japanese Miscegenation, and Feminine Literary Diplomacy2017

    • Author(s)
      Tomoe Kumojima
    • Organizer
      Pacific Gateways: International Symposium on English Literature and the Pacific Ocean, 1760-1914.
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Victorian Women's Travel Writing on Meiji Japan : Hospitable Friendship2022

    • Author(s)
      Tomoe Kumojima
    • Total Pages
      256
    • Publisher
      Oxford University Press
    • Related Report
      Products Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2023-03-30  

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