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Politics of Laughter in Contemporary Canadian Minority Fiction

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K02566
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

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

Principal Investigator

Toda Yukiko  椙山女学園大学, 国際コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (40367636)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Keywordsカナダ文学 / マイノリティ文学 / 笑い / ムスリム系カナダ文学 / アジア系カナダ文学 / Hiromi Goto / Zarqa Nawaz / Margaret Atwood / 笑いの手法 / ザルカ・ナワズ / パロディ / ムスリム / シットコム / 現代カナダ文学 / マーガレット・アトウッド / キム・チュイ / カナダ / アントニーン・マイエ / アカディア / ヒロミ・ゴトー / バフチン
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study examines the techniques of laughter and its political strategies in Canadian minority literature since the turn of the 21st century. The "narrative of victimhood" conveyed by traditional Canadian minority literature has been reincorporated into the dominant discourses as historical tragedy, turning a blind eye to the power effects that continue to work in more subtle ways. This study focuses on the use of laughter in Canadian minority literature since the turn of the 21st century and indicates how laughter is used as a narrative device to raise questions about the complex power structures at work and advocate for social justice. To do so, this study examined how the strategy of laughter (i) challenges the framework set by the ruling power, (ii) raises questions about the power structures that maintain inequality, (iii) breaks down existing stereotypes, and (iv) offers possibilities for healing and reconciliation.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の意義は、先住民およびアジア系、ムスリム系の文学研究に貢献するだけではなく、今まで軽視されてきた「笑い」の手法の持つ力を見出すことができることにある。またカナダのビジブル・マイノリティ、先住民、白人作家による作品を比較分析する本研究は、一つの集団に焦点を当てて考察されてきたカナダのマイノリティ文学研究のパラダイムシフトを促すとともに、マクロに働き続けている社会の複雑な権力作用を浮き彫りにできる。

Report

(7 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2022 2021 2019 2018 Other

All Journal Article (6 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 4 results) Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Remarks (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] The Politics of Humour and the Comical: Zarqa Nawaz’s Little Mosque on the Prairie and Laughing All the Way to the Mosque2022

    • Author(s)
      戸田由紀子
    • Journal Title

      カナダ文学研究

      Volume: 29 Pages: 77-97

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] マーガレット・アトウッドの "Wicked Tales":ミソジニーとエイジズムと「ぞっとするような笑い」2021

    • Author(s)
      戸田由紀子
    • Journal Title

      椙山女学園大学研究論集

      Volume: 52 Pages: 114-114

    • NAID

      120007006969

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Life is "Tragic and Comic at the Same Time": Kim Thuy and Her World2019

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Toda
    • Journal Title

      椙山女学園大学研究論集

      Volume: 51 Pages: 43-54

    • NAID

      40022172767

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] The Japanese Occupation of Southeast Asia and the Asia-Pcific War Depicted in Post-Redress Canadian Fiction2019

    • Author(s)
      Yukiko Toda
    • Journal Title

      椙山女学園大学研究論集

      Volume: 50 Pages: 19-28

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] オバアチャンの「笑い」:ヒロミ・ゴトーの『コーラス・オブ・マッシュルーム』2018

    • Author(s)
      戸田由紀子
    • Journal Title

      『カナダ文学研究』

      Volume: 25 Pages: 111-128

    • NAID

      40021499886

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] 死者について物語る:イーデン・ロビンソンの『モンキー・ビーチ』2018

    • Author(s)
      戸田由紀子
    • Journal Title

      『椙山女学園大学研究論集』

      Volume: 49 Pages: 67-76

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Presentation] カナダ文学の今2022

    • Author(s)
      戸田由紀子
    • Organizer
      カナダ文学会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] 「マーガレット・アトウッ ドの“Wicked Tales”:『老い』と『死』と『ぞっとする笑い』」2019

    • Author(s)
      戸田由紀子
    • Organizer
      カナダ文学会
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Japan and War Depicted in Canadian Literature2018

    • Author(s)
      戸田由紀子
    • Organizer
      International Conference on Asian Studies
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] カナダ・ニューブランズウィック州の文学:アントニーン・マイエの作品とユーモア

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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