| 研究実績の概要 |
Research is progressing smoothly thanks to the close collaboration between group members based in Tokyo and research collaborators based in the UK and elsewhere. Funding to enable foreign travel for research and discussions with colleagues abroad has been very important.
In 2015, research team members completed several publications. Hones published the research paper “Amplifying the Aural in Literary Geography” in the inaugural issue of Literary Geographies. The PDF of this paper has now been downloaded over 600 times from the journal website. Hones was also the first-named author for that issue’s editorial. She published “Literary Geographies, Past and Future” in Literary Geographies issue 1(2). Her 3,000 word commentary on the collection Historians Across Borders was published as part of a round-table in The Journal of American Studies. Her chapter for the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space, on “Sound and Rhythm in Literary Space Time,” was accepted for publication. Her entry on “Literary Geography” for the forthcoming 15-volume Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Wiley-AAG) is now in press.
Meanwhile, Carter-White’s chapter “The Interruption of Witnessing: Relations of Distance and Proximity in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah” was published in Hitler’s Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich, edited by Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca, C, The University of Chicago Press, March 2016.
Yujin Yaguchi's work has focused mostly on historical memories of the Pacific, including oral/testimonial history.
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| 今後の研究の推進方策 |
With literary geography gaining a stronger research presence from year to year now, as indicated in part by the success of the new open-access journal Literary Geographies, the research group plans to continue this collaborative line of work through 2016 and beyond. We would like to add Dr James Thurgill (The University of Tokyo) to the group in order to take advantage of his highly relevant expertise in the areas of literary geography and geographies of haunting and absence. This line of research connects well with Hones’s specialisation in literary geography and Carter-White’s interest in geographies of distance and negativity. We anticipate shifting the primary focus of our research toward literary geographies of distance and absence.
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