Racial inequality and apocalyptic futures in American literature

美国文学中的种族不平等和世界末日的未来

• 批准号: 22K13072
• 负责人: Yeates Robert
• 金额: $ 0.92万
• 依托单位: Okayama University
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-22K13072/
• 关键词: race; speculative fiction; apocalypse; science fiction; literature; cities; inequality

In the first year of the project, my research time was spent primarily in reading existing research and establishing a state of the field. Using kakenhi funds, I purchased recent and classic texts on race in speculative fiction, as well as other works relevant to the study of race in American literature more generally, and I have been engaged in studying these works. As the first year was an exploratory phase of research, my research focus has moved in unanticipated directions, going beyond the work of Octavia E. Butler to include classic works of speculative fiction and fantasy and other works by African American authors that deal with the topic of race. During this year, I have gained new understanding of the state of the field, and have expanded my awareness of important works of literature relevant to the project. This process of establishing a state of the field and surveying existing literature is ongoing.

在项目的第一年，我的研究时间主要用于阅读现有的研究并建立该领域的状态。我使用Kakenhi资金，购买了有关投机小说种族的最新和经典文本，以及与美国文学中种族研究有关的其他作品，我一直从事研究这些作品。由于第一年是研究的探索阶段，因此我的研究重点已朝着意外的方向发展，超越了Octavia E. Butler的作品，其中包括投机小说和幻想的经典作品以及涉及种族主题的非裔美国人作家的其他作品。在今年，我对该领域的状态有了新的了解，并扩大了我对与该项目相关的重要文学作品的认识。建立该领域状态并调查现有文献的过程正在进行中。