21st Century American Fiction as Translated Literature

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02367
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: FujiiI Hikaru 同志社大学, 文学部, 准教授 (20546668)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 現代アメリカ小説 / 翻訳研究 / 移民作家 / 寓話性 / 翻訳可能性 / 土着性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research aims to understand contemporary American fiction, including both U.S.- and foreign-born writers in English, as part of the wider phenomenon of “global” and “translated” fiction. Immigrant writers’ narratives often pay close attention to the dynamics of power between layers of narrative, for their act of writing itself is a cross-linguistic maneuver. U.S. writers, on the other hand, increasingly commit themselves to a fabulist style, in which one setting is described as always interchangeable with another; namely their style, though in a different form from immigrant writers, is based on the idea of translatability.

Free Research Field

現代アメリカ文学