| 研究実績の概要 |
In the second year of my three-year project “Villa Aurora as Sanctuary: A History of German Literature in Los Angeles, 1995-2020” I focused on the historical aspect of the Villa Aurora as a hub of German-American cultural relations in regard to concepts of political and artistic refuge. The main focus lies on the character of Villa Aurora and its neighbor Thomas Mann House as a symbol of German exile since the 1940s.
In one article in Goethe-Jahrbuch (Vol. 136, 2020) of German Goethe Society, two online micro essays (#MannsLA: Episode 3. Alfred Doeblin - Love Thy Enemy, 9. June 2020, #MutuallyMann: The Irony of Thomas Mann’s Germany and the Germans, 2. December 2020) and in one monograph “Wie Goethe Japaner wurde. Internationale Kulturdiplomatie und nationaler Identitaetsdiskurs 1889-1989” (Iudicium, Munich 2020), I demonstrated that already since 1940s the literature around Villa Aurora dealt fundamentally with notions of migration and refuge in an intricate combination of historic and contemporary perspectives.
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| 現在までの達成度 (区分) |
現在までの達成度 (区分)
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理由
Despite the several limitations due to Covid-19, the research has progressed rather smoothly. Research mobility was hugely affected, and, as a result, no invitation was realised. On the other hand, however, I changed the focus on writing and could progress the research further.
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