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Representation of Global Civil War in Contemporary British Fiction

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K02524
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Literature in English
Research InstitutionKansai University

Principal Investigator

ITAKURA Gen'ichiro  関西大学, 文学部, 教授 (20340177)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Keywords現代イギリス小説 / 世界的内戦 / テロ / トラウマ / 情動 / 英文学 / イギリス小説 / 世界的内戦の表象 / テロの表象 / トラウマの表象 / 英米文学 / ポスト世俗化
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project is designed to understand the scope of 21st-century British novels that explore the global civil war, or the never-ending war. While British-Pakistani authors such as Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie seek to represent the trauma of marginalised people in ways accessible to a wider readership, writers such as David Mitchell produce more imaginative texts that help us envision a post-apocalyptic future. Significantly, both categories of writers address commonly experienced affects such as collective trauma and anxiety of the future threat. These trends at once testify the diversity of contemporary British writers and suggests the increasing importance of affects for those writers.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、現代イギリス小説がとりわけ9.11同時多発テロ以降の世界をどのように表象してきたか、とりわけ登場人物を通じてその世界がどのような情動とともに受けとめられてきたかを明らかにした。トラウマ研究や情動理論からの知見を得ており、研究成果の一部は学際的なトラウマ研究の論文集What Happened?: Re-Presenting Traumas, Uncovering RecoveriesやTopography of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions and Transfigurationsにも採録されている。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Fearful and Shameful: Affective and Ethical Reactions to Modernity in David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas2021

    • Author(s)
      Gen'ichiro Itakura
    • Journal Title

      Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction

      Volume: - Issue: 5 Pages: 536-546

    • DOI

      10.1080/00111619.2020.1862040

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Screams and Laughter: Transfer of Affect in Nadeem Aslam's The Blind Man's Garden2020

    • Author(s)
      Gen'ichiro Itakura
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Postcolonial Writing

      Volume: 56 Issue: 3 Pages: 356-369

    • DOI

      10.1080/17449855.2020.1739292

    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] "Here's what you tell me": Worlding of Refugee Experiences in A Country of Refuge and Refugee Tales2021

    • Author(s)
      Gen'ichiro Itakura
    • Organizer
      World Literature and the Minor
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] ポストアポカリプス文学と核の文化2019

    • Author(s)
      板倉厳一郎
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会第91回大会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] イシグロと「若い世代の作家」2018

    • Author(s)
      板倉厳一郎
    • Organizer
      日本英文学会関西支部
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Fear, Security and the Messianic in the Postsecular Age: David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks2017

    • Author(s)
      Gen'ichiro Itakura
    • Organizer
      ENCLS (European Network for Comparative Literary Studies)第7回大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Topography of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions and Transfigurations2019

    • Author(s)
      Danielle Schaub, Jacqueline Linder, Kori D. Novak, Stephanie Tam and Claudio Vescia Zanini, Francesca Brencio, Cassie Pedersen, Tony Vinci, Peter Bray, Asli Tekinay, Elwin Susan John, Mark Callaghan, Leanne Dodd, Nicholas Quin Serenati, M. Candace Christensen, Marie France Forcier, Diedra L. Clay
    • Total Pages
      342
    • Publisher
      Brill
    • ISBN
      9789004405431
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Book] What Happened?: Re-Presenting Traumas, Uncovering Recoveries2019

    • Author(s)
      Elspheth McInnes, Danielle Schaub, Mark Callaghan, Zeina Tarraf, Gen'ichiro Itakura, Svetlana Antropova, Paul Vivian, Kate Burton, Monica Hinton, Marie France Forcier, Peter Bray
    • Total Pages
      223
    • Publisher
      Brill
    • ISBN
      9789004383197
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 現代イギリス小説の「今」──記憶と歴史2018

    • Author(s)
      板倉厳一郎、河内恵子、田尻芳樹、遠藤不比人、生駒夏美、大石和欣
    • Total Pages
      312
    • Publisher
      彩流社
    • ISBN
      9784779124730
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2022-01-27  

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