2020 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Queering the Family in Japanese Women's Fiction
| Project/Area Number |
19K23048
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| Research Institution | International Christian University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2019-08-30 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | Literature / Feminism / Queer theory / Embodiment / Family / Mothering / Queer / Fiction |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
All my research papers, presentations and events are connected to the analysis of representations of families, parenting, and related embodied experience (for example, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and care) in a selection of literary texts by contemporary Japanese women authors. I use feminist theory to “queer” the family; that is, I questioned literary representations to expand the concept of family.
I was a panelist at two academic online conferences.I also hosted an event with Professor Hitomi Yoshio (Waseda University), author Mieko Kawakami and translators Sam Bett and David Boyd on gender and translation. I also published a bilingual report of this event. I also published an academic article on Kawakami Mieko's work in the journal Japanese Language and Literature,2020.
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