Gender and ethnicity in American Literature.

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I.the head researcher Sugiyama, collected texts and scholary works by and about ethnic women in the United States to understand the most recent achievements and trends in the field. I studied the recent works of Anglo-American feminist criticism to conclude that 1) there are many important works in the study of mother-daughter relationship in literature from the viewpoint of feminist psychoanalysis, and that 2) there are few scholarly works about ethnic women in that field, and that 3) feminist criticism as a whole is being critiqued because of this lack. I also found that there are few works about mother-daughter relationship written from a mother's point of view, and that the methodology to analyze such works are yet to be established. I gained a prospect that to study ethnic women's literature with these topics in mind might find a new insight into mother-daughter relationship, without being trapped in the assumedly universal Freudian (nuclear) family model.Therefore, knowing the importance of studying ethnic women's mother-daughter relationship written from a mother's point of view, I wrote essays and read papers on Japanese-American Hisay Yamamoto and African-American Toni Morrison. In doing so, I reached a conclusion that a mother's point of view is particularly important to form a unique kind of narrative when the family is not a Freudian nuclear family. I am planning to continue pursuing this theme further and to write a scholarly essay of substancial length.