French literature through "Creole" writers

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02386
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature
• Research Institution: Gakushuin University
• Principal Investigator: Suzuki Masao 学習院大学, 文学部, 教授 (30431878)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: フランス文学 / ル・クレジオ / カミュ / デュラス / 植民地 / クレオール

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our research concerns on French writers descent from the former overseas colonies, who condemn themselves to live in a double exteriority for the reason that they are stranger in their native land but no longer feel attached to the Metropolitan France : Albert Camus, Marguerite Duras and J.M.G Le Clezio. For the plurilateral analysis of their representation of the colony, we tried not only to read deeply and carefully their texts, but to situate them in the historical, social or ideological context. This analysis allowed us to open up new perspectives to French literature from the colonization epoch (18th century) to decolonization epoch (20th century).

Free Research Field

近現代フランス文学