| Budget Amount *help |
¥5,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research explored the "transnational" aspect in Lafcadio Hearn's works in three aspects: 1) journalism, 2)translation, and 3) creative writing. Wherever he went, America, Martinique, or Japan, he was interested in different lifestyles and traditions, not to mention old ghostly stories, and documented them. The "ghostly" element, as I argue, functions as a means to represent a "transnational" aspect of human existence throughout his writings. It is used to project the reality of globalizing modernity that he witnessed. Hearn, therefore, must be acknowledged as a precursor of "world literature," and not only as a Japanologist, who sought for a new kind of narrative that can be shared in the changing world of modernity.
Thanks to the Kaken funding, my research culminated in a monograph, _The Spirit of No Place: Reportage, Translation and Re-told Stories in Lafcadio Hearn_(Kobe Gaidaironso, 2014, pp.230).
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