Gender and ethnicity in American Literature.

首席研究员杉山先生收集了美国少数民族妇女的文本和学术著作，以了解该领域的最新成就和趋势。本文通过对英美女性主义批评的研究，认为：（1）从女性主义精神分析的角度研究文学中母女关系的重要作品很多，（2）在这一领域研究少数民族女性的学术著作很少，（3）女性主义批评作为一个整体受到批评。我也发现，从母亲的角度写母女关系的作品很少，分析这类作品的方法论也有待建立。我由此获得了一个前景，即以这些主题来研究少数民族女性文学，可能会找到一种新的视角来理解母女关系，而不是陷入所谓的普遍的弗洛伊德式（核心）家庭模式。我写了关于日裔美国人山本久赛和非裔美国人托妮莫里森的文章和论文。在这样做的过程中，我得出了一个结论，即当家庭不是弗洛伊德式的核心家庭时，母亲的观点对于形成一种独特的叙事方式特别重要。我打算继续深入探讨这个主题，并写一篇相当长的学术论文。

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.