| 研究実績の概要 |
Aeriality has emerged as one of the most defining perceptual and cognitive practices of the 20th century. This project explores how aerial power/knowledge was exercised transnationally in occupied Japan (1945-1952), thereby shaping American literary and cultural production. It examines a diverse but select set of what I heuristically call aerial archives of race. The operational definition of this term refers to texts, literary or otherwise, that operate as archiving systems, representing and relating a shift in the aerial imagination and the corollary shifting ground of race that it caused.
During the first year of the project, I examined Theodor Seuss Geisel’s Horton Hears a Who! (1954), a story of a speck of dust floating in the air and its small, unseen residents, inspired by Geisel’s trip to Japan, and considered the relationship between transnational aeriality and occupied Japan that became a vanishing point in American literary history.
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