2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Domestic ldeology and lts Critics in the Antebellum Literature

Research Project

Project/Area Number	20720077
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Surugadai University
Principal Investigator	NASUDA Kumiko Surugadai University, 現代文化学部, 准教授 (80337617)
Project Period (FY)	2008 – 2009
Keywords	米文学
Research Abstract	This research explores black domesticity in Frank J.Webb's 1857 novel The Garies and Their Friends, examining how the ideology of domesticity involved the antebellum cultural formation. Against the common postulation that domesticity connotes the middle-class white women's culture, the research demonstrates that (1) domestic ideology was shared or appropriated by men and women with the intersections of race, gender, and class ; (2) the peculiarities of cultural politics resided in local formulations of domestic ideology.

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