Queering the Family in Japanese Women's Fiction
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19K23048
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
0102:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
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| Research Institution | International Christian University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-08-30 – 2021-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
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| Keywords | 身体 / 家族 / クイア / フェミニズム / 女性作家 / 比較文学 / ジェンダー / Literature / Feminism / Queer theory / Embodiment / Family / Mothering / Queer / Fiction / Queer Theory |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This research aims to explore the representations of families and parenting in a selection of literary texts by contemporary Japanese women authors. It uses feminist theory to “queer” the family; that is, it applies a mode of questioning to literary representations to expand the concept of family.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Thanks to this grant, I was able to continue with my research on the representations of the female body experience comprised in my doctoral dissertation through increasing my literary sample and adding a focus on family formations. All my research papers, presentations and events are connected to the analysis of representations of families, parenting, and related embodied experience (for example, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and care) in a selection of literary texts by contemporary Japanese women authors. I use feminist theory to “queer” the family; that is, I questioned literary representations to expand the concept of family.
The contemporary Japanese authors selected for this research project are: Kirino Natsuo (b.1951), Ito Hiromi (b. 1955), Kawakami Mieko (b. 1976), Murata Sayaka (b.1979) and Matsuda Aoko (b.1979).
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究の目的は、日本の現代女性作家の作品の中で、家族とそれに関連する身体的経験（例えば、妊娠、出産、授乳など）がどのように表現されているかを分析する。選んだ作家たちの作品は、身体の経験と家族形成の描写を物語の中心に据えており、それらの描写を比較したり、会話したりすることで、お互いに補完し合い、身体性についての理解を深めることができる。本研究は、日本文学を英語圏やヒスパニック圏に広め、紹介することも目的としており、女性作家を擁護し、グローバルな文脈で作品を読むことの重要性を強調している。家族という概念の拡大と女性作家の称賛は、国内、国際的なスコープの中で、時宜を得たものである。
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