Trans-America: Nineteenth-Century American Literary Imagination and its Relation to the Circum-Caribbean
| Project/Area Number |
26370330
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Seikei University |
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Principal Investigator |
Shoji Hiroko 成蹊大学, 文学部, 教授 (50272472)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Keywords | エドガー・アラン・ポー / ミシェル・クリフ / ハイチ革命 / 奴隷制度 / アメリカ文学 / カリブ文学 / ゴシック小説 / サン＝ドマング（ハイチ） / アメリカ文学・文化 / カリブ海地域 / ポストコロニアリズム / アメリカ・ルネサンス / 植民地主義 / カリブ海沿岸地域 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study deals with the relationship between Antebellum America and the Circum-Caribbean and its influence over the nineteenth-century U.S. literary imagination. The Haitian Revolution that started in 1791 and ended in the birth of a black republic in 1804 exerted a significant impact over the post-revolutionary United States and its nation-building as a white Anglo-Saxon republic. The impact of the Haitian Revolution was especially seismic in the slave-holding U.S. South and this impact is explored in the narratives of Edgar Allan Poe. This study also addresses the remains of colonialism and the emergence of neo-colonialism in the U.S.-Caribbean relation in the contemporary American literature and discusses colonial and post-colonial themes in the novels by the Jamaican-American novelist Michelle Cliff.
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Report
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Research Products
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