Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers and Colonial Discours

十九世纪美国女作家与殖民话语

• 批准号: 11610480
• 负责人: TAKETANI Etsuko
• 金额: $ 1.66万
• 依托单位: University of Tsukada
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1999 至 2000
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-11610480/
• 关键词: Women Writers; Colonial discourse; American Litereture; Imperialism; オリエンタリズム; マリア・カミンズ; 宣教師; ビルマ; エミリー・ジャドソン

My study seeks to identify and elaborate the ways in which American women writers generated, circulated, and questioned colonialism as practice and discourse between 1825 and 1861. Deriving much of its inspiration from the recent developments of postcolonial studies, this study is particularly indebted to Amy Kaplan and Donald E. Pease's Cultures of united States imperialism (1993), which set the stage for the examination of "the absence of the United States from the postcolonial study of imperialism." Following the path opened by Cultures and by Kaplan's more recent, ground-breaking essay, "Manifest Domesticity" (1998), my study undertakes a feminized version of U.S. imperialism within the discipline of literature. I do this, however, not so much by subsuming women's works in hegemonic and patriarchal (if legitimate) histories of Manifest Destiny and expansionism as Kaplan has done, but by positioning it in an alternative history of U.S. colonialism to which women writers, I argue, made notable contributions. By no means does my study propose to locate the tradition of women's writings outside the male-dominated U.S. history in order that the difference of women be accentuated and celebrated. Instead the aim of my study is to uncover alternative colonial and postcolonial visions in which women played a formative role. To that end, I have unearthed many of the forgotten texts published between 1825 and 1861 that are the primary subject of this study―such as Emily Judson's The Kathayan Slave (1853) and Maria Cummins's E.I Fureidis (1860)―which I reassess in terms of their relevance to colonialism. Taken together, my literary readings argue that American women's texts significantly created alternative colonial and postcolonial visions―visions that were no less instrumental in the fabrication of the destiny of an American empire than the ideology of Manifest Destiny.

我的研究旨在确定和阐述的方式，美国女作家产生，传播和质疑殖民主义的实践和话语之间的1825年和1861年。本研究的灵感主要来自于后殖民研究的最新发展，尤其要感谢艾米·卡普兰和唐纳德·E。皮斯的《美帝国主义文化》（1993），为考察“美国在帝国主义的后殖民研究中的缺席”奠定了基础。遵循《文化》和卡普兰最近的开创性论文《显性家庭性》（Manifest Domesticity，1998年）开辟的道路，我的研究在文学学科中对美帝国主义进行了女性化。我这样做，然而，与其说是通过将女性作品纳入霸权和父权制（如果合法的话）历史的天定命运和扩张主义卡普兰所做的，而是通过将其定位在美国殖民主义的另一种历史中，我认为，女性作家做出了显着的贡献。我的研究并不是要将女性写作的传统置于男性主导的美国历史之外，以便强调和庆祝女性的差异。相反，我的研究的目的是揭示另一种殖民和后殖民的视野中，妇女发挥了形成的作用。为此，我发掘了许多在1825年至1861年之间出版的被遗忘的文本，这些文本是本研究的主要主题，例如艾米丽·贾德森的《卡萨扬奴隶》（1853年）和玛丽亚·康明斯的《E.I Furedham》（1860年），我重新评估了它们与殖民主义的相关性。总之，我的文学阅读认为，美国妇女的文本显着创造了另类的殖民和后殖民的愿景-愿景是不低于工具在美国帝国的命运比天定命运的意识形态制造。

项目成果

Etsuko Taketani: "Spectacular Child Bodies : The Sexual Politics of Cross-Dressing and Calisthenics in the Writings of Eliza Leslie and Catharine Beecher"The Lion and the Unicorn (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press). 23. 355-372 (1999)

竹谷悦子：“壮观的儿童身体：伊丽莎·莱斯利和凯瑟琳·比彻著作中的变装和健美操的性政治”《狮子与独角兽》（约翰·霍普金斯大学出版社）。

竹谷悦子: "パフォーマンスとしての帝国とマスキュリニティ--『緋文字』における選挙パレード"英語青年. 146. 165-167 (2000)

竹谷悦子：“作为表演的帝国与男子气概——《红字》中的选举游行”《英语青年》146。165-167（2000）

Etsuko Taketani: "The "Omnipresent Aunt"and the Social Child: Lydia Maria Child's Juvenile Miscellany"Children's Literature (Yale University Press). 27. 22-39 (1999)

竹谷悦子：《“无所不在的阿姨”与社会儿童：莉迪亚·玛丽亚·柴尔德的少年杂记》儿童文学（耶鲁大学出版社）。

Etsuko Taketani: "The "Omnipresent Aunt" and the Social Child : Lydia Maria Child's Juvenile Miscellany"Children's Literature (Yale University Press). 27. 22-39 (1999)

竹谷悦子：《“无所不在的阿姨”与社会儿童：莉迪亚·玛丽亚·柴尔德的少年杂记》儿童文学（耶鲁大学出版社）。

Etsuko Taketani: "The 'Omnipresent Aunt' and the Social Child : Lydia Maria Child's Juvenile Miscellany Children's Literature"Yale University Press. 27 : 22-39 (1999)

竹谷悦子：“‘无所不在的阿姨’和社会儿童：莉迪亚·玛丽亚·柴尔德的少年杂记儿童文学”耶鲁大学出版社。