Property and Labor in American Literary Works

美国文学作品中的财产与劳动

基本信息

批准号：
15520203
负责人：
OWADA Eiko
金额：
$ 1.6万
依托单位：
Waseda University (2004-2006)Hosei University (2003)
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
2003
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
2003 至 2006
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

The purpose of this project is to clarify how the notions of "labor" and "property" interpreted in American literary theories, and how those terms are utilized, analyzed, or transformed in actual literary texts. Because of the characteristics of literary study, when I researched into the notion of "labor," the category includes various concepts and phenomena around cultural matters. Thus, "labor" covers wide range of topics from female pregnancy to intellectual labor such as translation and copyright issues. As for "property," research interest does not limit its treatment of issues only to property right of material things, but to that of human beings. Therefore, slavery and slave labor in this institution overlap with both notions of "labor" and "property" in every aspect of American literary studies.The main activity of the project was targeted on holding regular research meetings with various members from all over Japan ; in the sessions, we read theoretical books such as American … More Exceptionalism, American anxiety : Wages, Competition, and degraded labor in the Antebellum United States by Jonathan A. Glickstein, Wealth and Democracy : A Political History of the American Rich by Kevin Phillips, Work, Culture and Society in Industrializing America : Essays in American Working Class and Social History by Herbert G. Gutman, The Rise and Fall of the White Republic : Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America by Alexander Saxton, Labor and Desire : Women's Revolutionary Fiction in Depression America by Paula Rabinowitz, Myths America Lives by Richard T. Hughes, Radical Representations : Politics and Form in U. S. Proletarian Fiction, 1929-1941 by Barbara Foley, Political Fiction and the American Self by John Whalen-Bridge and so on. These theoretical works provided the foundation of the following stage of the project, namely, the analysis of each writer's texts with the perspectives of "labor" and "property."Especially, in the works of William Faulkner, my analysis was extended from the issues of slavery to the copyright matters which can be scrutinized from Faulkner's cooperation as a script writer in the Hollywood film industry. Since Hollywood script writers' and producers' political interests synchronized with their contemporaries' aesthetic representation, analysis of Faulkner's scripts and novels are also interpreted from other theoretical issues on "labor" and "property" ; "labor," in this case, includes Faulkner's own anxiety over his presence as a serious writer to pursue his arts and a script writer to earn money, while "property" includes intellectual property right on the products. Less

本项目的目的是阐明美国文学理论中如何解释“劳动”和“财产”的概念，以及在实际文学文本中如何利用、分析或转化这些术语。我研究了“劳动”的概念，这个范畴包括围绕文化问题的各种概念和现象，因此，“劳动”涵盖了从女性怀孕到智力劳动（例如翻译和版权问题）的广泛主题。研究兴趣并不局限于其对问题的处理因此，这个机构中的奴隶制和奴役劳动与美国文学研究各个方面的“劳动”和“财产”概念都有重叠。该项目的主要活动是有针对性的。与来自日本各地的各种成员定期举行研究会议；在会议中，我们阅读了乔纳森·格利克斯坦（Jonathan A. Glickstein）的《美国例外论、美国焦虑：战前美国的工资、竞争和堕落劳动》等理论书籍。和民主：美国富人的政治史凯文·菲利普斯，美国工业化中的工作、文化和社会：赫伯特·G·古特曼的美国工人阶级和社会史论文，白色共和国的兴衰：阶级政治和大众文化亚历山大·萨克斯顿（Alexander Saxton）的《十九世纪的美国》，保拉·拉比诺维茨（Paula Rabinowitz）的《劳动与欲望：美国大萧条时期的女性革命小说》，理查德·T·休斯（Richard T. Hughes）的《美国生活的神话》，《激进的表现：政治与形式》芭芭拉·弗利（Barbara Foley）的《美国无产阶级小说，1929-1941》，约翰·惠伦·布里奇（John Whalen-Bridge）的《政治小说和美国自我》等，这些理论著作为该项目的下一阶段提供了基础，即对每位作家的文本进行分析。特别是在威廉·福克纳的作品中，我的分析从奴隶制问题延伸到了可以审视的版权问题从福克纳在好莱坞电影界担任剧本作家的合作来看，由于好莱坞剧本作家和制片人的政治利益与同时代人的审美表征同步，对福克纳剧本和小说的分析也从其他关于“劳动”和“劳动”的理论问题来解读。在这种情况下，“劳动”包括福克纳自己对自己作为一名追求艺术的严肃作家和赚钱的剧本作家的焦虑，而“财产”包括知识产权少在产品上。