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Literature of the American South in the 1920s

Research Project

Project/Area Number 11610482
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 英語・英米文学
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo

Principal Investigator

HIRAISHI Takaki  Professor, Gradute School of Humaniting and Sociate Sciences, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (10133323)

Project Period (FY) 1999 – 2000
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2000)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 1999: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000)
KeywordsAmerican terature / southornh / terature Faulkner / the 1920s / アメリカ南部
Research Abstract

Literature of the American South in the 1920s is characterized by two major factors : a new generation intent on assimilating themselves to the new trend of modernism in Europe, and a movement toward what was to be called New Criticism, which, while asserting the autonomy of literature, tacitly reflected the aristocratic connoisseurism traditionally maintained in the white South. The former factor was typically active in Double Dealer, a little magazine in New Orleans, while the latter was made conspicuous by the manifesto T11 Take My Stand, compiled by the professors of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. However, the South in the 20s was experiencing a far greater social change than these two factors could correspond to successfully, from the so-called Great Migration of black people to the North, to the Depression at the end of the decade, and it brought as a result a literary as well as cultural confusion for which it was extremely difficult to find an outler. Southern Literature of that period, after all, depended on the imaginative capability of individual authors whose task it was to face the chaotic reality as seriously and inclusively as they could. In this context, three authors seemingly different from each other can be said to made acutest responses to the actuality of their home land : William Faulkner, who thematically adhered to his native Mississippi, Thomas Wolfe, who kept on writing about his North Carolina only critically, and J.J.Cash, who wrote a severe attack of Southern culture. They are usually treated separtely, Faulkner as a successful modernist, Wolfe as a failed autobiographer, and Cashi as a cultural historian ; but it seems now necessary to examine them in a single, common perspective, perspective of the tragic record of the changing South.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2000 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1999 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (8 results)

All Other

All Publications (8 results)

  • [Publications] 平石貴樹: "『八月の光』の作者のふるまい(1)〜(12)"『英語青年』(研究社)(連載). (各回-3頁). (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 平石貴樹: "「歴史を語るということ」"國重純二 篇『アメリカ文学の新世紀』(南雲堂). (予定). (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Takaki HIRAISHI: ""The Author's Behavior in Light in August"(Japanese)"Eigo Seinen. (3 pages each number). (1999,2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Takaki HIRAISHI: "On Narrating History"Junji Kunishige, ed. New Century in America literature, Nan-un-do (Scheduled). (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2000 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 平石貴樹: "「『八月の光』の作者のふるまい」(1)〜(9)"『英語青年』(研究社)(連載). 各回3頁. (1999)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 平石貴樹: "「『八月の光』の作者のふるまい」(10)〜(12)"『英語青年』(研究社)(連載). 各回3頁. (2000)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 平石貴樹: "「歴史を語るということ」"國重純二編『アメリカ文学の新世紀』(南雲堂). 予定. (2001)

    • Related Report
      2000 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 平石貴樹: "『八月の光』の作者のふるまい"英語青年(研究社). (連載). 3-4 (1999)

    • Related Report
      1999 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1999-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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