Removing Stigmas/Normalizing Deviants: Consideration of Dysfunctional Manhood in American Literatures

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520289
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: KUBO Takuya 金沢大学, 学校教育系, 准教授 (80303246)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: アメリカ文学 / 男性性研究 / 障害学研究 / マーク・トウェイン研究 / 「失敗」の研究

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research puts focus on representations of what is called "minority" in literary works by introducing the knowledge and the viewpoints from a recent developing academic field, Disability Studies, on top of those which Masculinities Studies has produced. Behind the men with "deformed" masculinities lie the facts that American society, which has been obsessed with the dreams of success, has discarded those people as failures. This research aims to see those who cannot meet the criteria the American society has applied for their progress, and their representations in the literary works produced during the late 19th and the early 20th century.

Free Research Field

英語圏文学