| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000)
Fiscal Year 1998: ¥1,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This study aims at a documentary research on French Creole Language and Literature of the Caribbean region, notably the French Islands, and at purchasing basic books and documents relevant to the field, which are almost inexistent up to now in our country, although an increasing interest for some writings and thoughts elaborated by its leading writers or thinkers such as Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau and Raphael Confiant. A research trip in Haiti (two weeks in July 1998) allowed me to meet a certain number of researchers, writers and artists in Miami (U.S.A.) and in Port-au-Prince (Haiti) and to get some precious informations concerning the books and documents published there. After the trip, I ordered books and documents form Canada, U.S.A., Haiti and other caribbean islands, and Europe (France, England and Germany). As a result, at the very moment of drafting this report, we have constituted a significant library gathering more than 1000 books and documents, which includes my over-twenty-five year old private collection of Modern Black African Literature (focused on French Expression Literature) and Caribbean's. I will continue to enrich this library in order to make it available to all the researchers and post-graduate students interested by the subject. From this school year, I began a lecture class for my post-graduate students to read some texts written in French Creole, using the dictionnaries and grammar books of the library to the existence of which this Grant-in-Aid has largely contributed.
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