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Projection and Reception of British Culture During the Cold War: an Archival and Theoretical Approach

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K00916
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 03010:Historical studies in general-related
Research InstitutionWaseda University

Principal Investigator

Watanabe Aiko  早稲田大学, 文学学術院, 教授 (10345077)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 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 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywordsイギリス文化外交史 / 冷戦期 / 実証研究 / 文化理論 / ブリティッシュ・カウンシル / ジョージ・オーウェル / イギリス文化外交 / 20世紀イギリス史 / オーストリア / 地域研究(イギリス) / 冷戦史 / 文化外交史 / 国際交流
Outline of Final Research Achievements

At first, this research project intended to explore the intention behind and impact of British culture during the Cold War on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe from both empirical and theoretical research perspectives. The project initially consisted of substantial archival research at the National Archives in the UK but was hampered halfway by the Corona Pandemic that began in 2020. Due to this, I was compelled to devote my time to studying the secondary sources including literary representation. By so doing, I found political use and dissemination of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) was worth investigating, because I was able to identify some signs that the novel not only successfully penetrated the Iron Curtain to Eastern Europe as part of the British Government's propaganda strategy, but was also actively accepted and reproduced by the underground, resistance groups, and functioned as an instruction book for overthrowing the regime.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

ジョージ・オーウェル最晩年の小説『一九八四年』は、全体主義批判の書として知られ、冷戦期西側諸国において対ソ連・東欧諸国への対抗プロパガンダ戦略として利用されていた点については、すでにいくつかの研究実績がある。一方、本作が東側陣営においてどのような社会的役割を果たしてきたのかについては、これまでほとんど見過ごされ、総括的に研究されてこなかった。よって、今回、この点を実証的・理論的に研究する可能性を見出したことに学術的な意義があるばかりでなく、文学が東欧革命という歴史的事象に果たした影響を社会に示すことには大きな価値があるといえるだろう。

Report

(6 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
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2022 2021 2019 2018 Other

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

  • [Journal Article] 書評「川端康雄著『ジョージ・オーウェル―「人間らしさ」への讃歌―』」2022

    • Author(s)
      渡辺 愛子
    • Journal Title

      『英文学研究』

      Volume: 99 Pages: 49-54

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] イギリス・イメージ調査~最終報告~2021

    • Author(s)
      牟田有紀子&渡辺愛子
    • Journal Title

      (個人HPにて配信)

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] 'Kokka, Okakura Kakuzo and the Aesthetic Construction of Late Meiji Cultural Nationalism'2019

    • Author(s)
      Keith Hanley & Aiko Watanabe
    • Journal Title

      WIAS Discussion Paper

      Volume: 3

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] ‘Manufacturing the Market: Selling the Over-Seas Daily Mail, 1904-1919’2019

    • Author(s)
      Aiko Watanabe
    • Journal Title

      Essay Shorts of BKAS: Book Advertising Studies

      Volume: --

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Open Access
  • [Presentation] 「LockDOWN and OUT in Vienna and Cambridge~ウィーン・ケンブリッジ滞在記~」2022

    • Author(s)
      渡辺 愛子
    • Organizer
      日本オーウェル協会
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Selling the Daily Mail Overseas: Real and Imagined Ex-pat Communities’2018

    • Author(s)
      Aiko Watanabe
    • Organizer
      Book Advertising Studies Workshop
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] 「改竄される『一九八四年』~冷戦初期の映像三作品と原作、そしてオーディエンス」,『ジョージ・オーウェル ~「一九八四年」を読む~』2021

    • Author(s)
      渡辺 愛子
    • Publisher
      水声社
    • ISBN
      4801005748
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] 「定点としての一九八四年と『一九八四年』の時空」,『ジョージ・オーウェル ~「一九八四年」を読む』2021

    • Author(s)
      渡辺 愛子
    • Publisher
      水声社
    • ISBN
      4801005748
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] 渡辺 愛子研究室

    • URL

      https://aiko-waseda.net/

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] ‘Manufacturing the Market...’

    • URL

      http://bkas.org/essay-shorts/

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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