| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Based on the question of how so-called "ethnic literature" or "minority literature" as literary genres have contributed both to elaborating and simplifying understanding of American literature, this study explores the effect of the critical concept of "border" and "borderlands" to envision further alternatives to our comprehension of American literature as multicultural literature. The concept of "borderlands" works effectively not only to redefine the differences among those writers who were previously considered to belong to the same ethnic categories, but also to rediscover the ubiquitous quality of "borderlands" across different cultures and languages as it is found in other literatures than American literature, such as Okinawan literature. In conclusion, the concept of "borderlands" is indispensable to understand the literary expressions that emerges in the space between cultures, nation-states, languages, and sexualities.
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