Overlapping linguistic-spheres, Toward a new trend of comparative study of colonial and post-colonial literatures

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02462
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in general
• Research Institution: Ritsumeikan University
• Principal Investigator: NISHI Masahiko 立命館大学, 先端総合学術研究科, 教授 (40172621)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 言語圏 / 植民地文学 / ポストコロニアル文学 / 世界文学 / バイリンガル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

National territories are not supposed to overlap but different linguistic-spheres often coexist, for example in colonized areas or in so-called global cities. It is notable that more and more works are produced at the crossroads of plural linguistic-spheres. This research is an effort to invent a new method of comparative literature, which could be adapted to the study of colonial and post-colonial literatures. The main fields are 1) the East Asia which had been ruled or militarily occupied by Imperial Japan and 2) North and South Americas where the hegemony of dominant European languages is irreversibly established.

Free Research Field

比較文学