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Representation of the Intricate Consciousness of Minority Groups as Manifested in Contemporary Literature, with particular reference to gender, class and language

Research Project

Project/Area Number 14510639
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 文学一般(含文学論・比較文学)・西洋古典
Research InstitutionTohoku University

Principal Investigator

SHIMATO Kenichi  Tohoku University, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, professor, 大学院・国際文化研究科, 教授 (70128429)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) SATO Yukino  Tohoku University, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Associate professor, 大学院・国際文化研究科, 助教授 (40226014)
YAMASHITA Hiroshi  Tohoku University, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, professor, 大学院・国際文化研究科, 教授 (20230427)
SHIGAKI Mitsutihiro  Tohoku University, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, professor, 大学院・国際文化研究科, 教授 (60215960)
FUJITA Kyoko  Tohoku GUniversity, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Associate professor, 大学院・国際文化研究科, 助教授 (80241561)
SUZUKI Michio  Tohoku University, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Associate professor, 大学院・国際文化研究科, 助教授 (20187769)
Project Period (FY) 2002 – 2003
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2003)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Keywordsminority / identity / discrimination and co-existence / intricacies in self-identity / choice of language / multi-ethnicity and multiculturalism / gender / contemporary literature / 言語の選択
Research Abstract

We focused on the choice of language and literary activities of the poets and novelists belonging to minority groups in multi-ethnic, multicultural and multilingual societies. Special attention was paid to the presupposed multifarious factors which would affect their literary activities, such as gender, class, and awareness in language use and ethnic identity. The results of individual researchers in our team are summarized as follows:
1)The process in which the shift or reformation of self-identity of female Turkish writers after their resettlement in Germany became crystallized in their literary works was closely examined. Inquiry was also made as to how the redefinition of their role as women had been reflected in their literary representations.
2)The literary works by female Puerto Rican writers, the themes of which centered on female-related issues was investigated. In the course of this study due consideration was paid as well to the principles of sexual discrimination inseparably … More related to their nationalist ideals.
3)Christian literature and Islam literature in the Indian Subcontinent have been regarded as and remained to be "the literature of minority" respectively, totally overshadowed under the dominance and supremacy of Hindu literature, the literature par excellence in India. The present research showed how these two literary traditions derived from religions of foreign origin had established and developed their own identity in the Indian soil, making a maximal concession to the indigenous poetics and literary conventions firmly rooted and nurtured in Hindu religious tradition.
4)Lackova, a female writer of Romany descent, was properly focused from the standpoint of her own identity as a female belonging to an ethnic minority and its impact on her literary activities.
5)The present study proved that the salient features of the mentality of the German minority mainly settled in the particular province in Romania called Transylvanian Saxony ("Siebenburger Sachsen" in German) had been formed and developed under the strong influence of the circumstances of the period as well as their own historical background.
6)Ethnic discord observed within the German-speaking minority in Bukovina province under Romanian occupation was taken up for discussion. The present research shed light up on the details of this discord between the group of German descent persisting in their genealogical identity and the group of Jewish descent stressing their cultural and linguistic identity. Less

Report

(3 results)
  • 2003 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2002 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (24 results)

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All Publications (24 results)

  • [Publications] 島途健一: "「文学」と「現実」の間-ある在独トルコ人女性作家の社会性-"東北大学大学院国際文化研究科論集. 第10号. 167-180 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 山下博司: "インドにおける伝統思想と現代(2)"地域研究への招待(現代南アジア)(長崎暢子編)(東京大学出版会). 第1巻. 169-188 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 山下博司: "南アジア世界における<衣>の意味とその変容-経済開放化の変化をふまえて-"第九期ファッション研究助成事業成果報告書(日本ファッション協会編). 1-6 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 山下博司: "経済開放化のインドにおける伝統的食文化の変容に関する研究"アサヒビール学術振興財団平成13年度研究紀要. (印刷中). 62-69 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 佐藤雪野: "教員に関する国際比較試論-チェコ、日本、イギリス-(2)"東北大学大学院国際文化研究科論集. 第10号. 213-219 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 佐藤雪野: "教員に関する国際比較試論-チェコ、日本、イギリス-(3)"東北大学大学院国際文化研究科論集. 第11号. 173-179 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 佐藤雪野: "マイノリティと記憶-チェコ(とスロヴァキアの)ロマの歴史と現在-"立命館言語文化研究. 第15巻2号. 5-15 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 藤田恭子: "ルーマニア統治下におけるブコヴィナ文学の変容"オーストリア文学. 19. 24-31 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 山下博司: "ヒンドゥー教-インドという<謎>-"講談社. 251 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Shimato Kenichi: "Zwischen "Literature" und "Wirklichkeit" -Sozialitat einer in Deutschland lebenden turkischen Schriftstellerin -"Journal of the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies. vol.10. 167-180 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Yamashita Hiroshi (N.Nagasaki ed.): "Traditional Thoughts in Contemporary India (2)"An Invitation to Area Studies (Contemporary South Asia Series,1)(Tokyo : University of Tokyo Press). 169-188 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Yamashita Hiroshi: "The Significance of "Clothes" and its Transformation in South Asia after the Introduction of the Open Economy Policies"Annual Report 2002 of the Research Foundation of Japan Fashion Association. 1-6 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Yamashita Hiroshi: "Study on the Transformation of the Traditional Food Culture under the Open Economy Policy"Annual Report 2001 of the Asahi Beer Research Foundation (Tokyo : Asahi Beer Research Foundation). (in press). 63-69 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sato Yukino: "An Essay on International Comparative Research about Teachers, Czech Republic, Great Britain and Japan (3)"Journal of the Graduate School of International Cultural Studies. vol.10. 213-219 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sato Yukino: "An Essay on International Comparative Research about Teachers, Czech Republic, Great Britain and Japan (3)"Journal of Graduate School of International Cultural Studies. vol.11. 173-179 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Sato Yukino: "Minority and Memory : Past and Present of the Roma in the Czech Republic (and Slovakia)"Retsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture. vol.15-2. 5-15 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Fujita Kyoko: "Der Wandel der deutschsprachigen Literatur in der Bukowina unter rumanischer Herrschaft"Beitrage zur Osterreichischen Literatur. Jg.19. 24-31 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Yamashita Hiroshi: "Hinduism : Wonder as India"Tokyo : Kodansha. 251 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2003 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 佐藤雪野: "チェコのロマ-放浪と定住の間で"薩摩秀登編著『チェコとスロヴァキアを知るための56章』. 123-127 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 佐藤雪野: "マイノリティと記憶-チェコ(とスロヴァキアの)ロマの歴史と現在-"立命館言語文化研究. 第15巻2号. 5-15 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 佐藤雪野: "教員に関する国際比較試論-チェコ、日本、イギリス-(3)"東北大学大学院国際文化研究科論集. 第11号. 173-179 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 島途健一: "「文学」と「現実」の間-ある在独トルコ人女性作家の社会性-"東北大学大学院国際文化研究科論集. 第10号. 167-180 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 藤田恭子: "ルーマニア統治下におけるブコヴィナ文学の変容"オーストリア文学(オーストリア文学研究会). 第19号. 24-31 (2003)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 藤田恭子: "19世紀ブコヴィナの非ドイツ系ドイツ語詩人たち"東北大学大学院国際文化研究科論集. 第10号. 49-62 (2002)

    • Related Report
      2002 Annual Research Report

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