Translation Studies: Perspectives in the 21st Century and Re-reading History

• Project/Area Number: 26370294
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Tsuda College
• Principal Investigator: Hayakawa Atsuko 津田塾大学, 学芸学部, 教授 (60225604)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000); Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
• Keywords: 翻訳論 / 英語圏文学 / 世界文学 / 歴史の再読 / グローバル文学 / ヘゲモニーの解体 / 翻訳文学 / 歴史の検証 / 歴史の創出 / ecocriticism / 翻訳理論 / 21世紀文学の課題 / 比較文学 / 震災文学 / 日本研究 / 歴史再読 / 哲学詩 / 第二次大戦後 / 表象研究 / 越境性 / グローバリゼーション / エヴァ・ホフマン / 日本文学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the gigantic waves of multi-cultural/lingual/ethnographical globalization in the 21st Century, inter-relatoins with "the others" have been much more focused than before. In the context of literature, so-called "World literature" as genre has been discussed and explored, in which "translation" is inevitablly a disputing concern not only for the academics but also for the writers.
One of the big challenge was to deconstruct the hegemonic Anglophonic canon of English literature, while those writers who are concerned with thier culture and heritage in the minor languages have been powerfully creating stories to be translated into "English". In the process, what had been considered as "Hisotry" has been re-read from different perspectives, and the "histories" of the oppressed have been revealed in stead.
This project has focused on how translation studies stimulated and encouraged such new movement in the context of world literature in the present century.

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] University of British Columbia/Research Institute for Asian Studies(Canada)
• [Journal Article] New Translations of Japanese Literature: Socio-cultural Impacts on the Japanese Mind (2015)
  • Author(s): Atsuko Hayakawa
  • Journal Title: Journalism and Mass Communication Volume: 5 Pages: 640-649
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The Perspectives of Literary Translation Research (2015)
  • Author(s): Atsuko Hayakawa
  • Organizer: British Association of Japanese Studies (BAJS)
  • Place of Presentation: SOAS, University of London
  • Year and Date: 2015-09-11
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] 翻訳のフロンティア―言語のせめぎ合いから新・批評まで (2015)
  • Author(s): 早川敦子（研究発表モデュレーターとして）
  • Organizer: 世界文学・語圏横断ネットワーク
  • Place of Presentation: 東京外国語大学
  • Year and Date: 2015-03-20
• [Book] 架空の国に起きる不思議な戦争 (2017)
  • Author(s): 早川敦子
  • Publisher: 開文社出版
• [Book] 希望の鎮魂歌：ホロコースト第二世代が訪れた広島・長崎・福島 (2017)
  • Author(s): Eva Hoffman (早川敦子編訳）
  • Total Pages: 163
  • Publisher: 岩波書店
• [Book] 子どもの本がつなぐ平和な世界 (2016)
  • Author(s): 早川敦子（編訳・監修）
  • Total Pages: 227
  • Publisher: 彩流社
• [Book] 子どもの本がつなぐ希望の世界：イエラ・レップマンの平和への願い (2016)
  • Author(s): 真壁伍郎・早川敦子（監修）ほか（共著）
  • Total Pages: 227
  • Publisher: 彩流社
• [Book] こどもの時間 (2015)
  • Author(s): Emily Grosholz、早川敦子（翻訳）
  • Total Pages: 103
  • Publisher: クルミド出版
• [Book] The Second Movement: Hiroshima and Nagasaki (2015)
  • Author(s): 栗原貞子ほか。早川敦子（翻訳：英訳）
  • Total Pages: 123
  • Publisher: 徳間書店
• [Book] The Second Movement: Fukushima (2015)
  • Author(s): 和合亮一ほか。早川敦子（翻訳：英訳）
  • Total Pages: 65
  • Publisher: 徳間書店