Research on the Peasant Literature Movement during the Taisho and Showa Periods ; Using Evidence of Mutual Connections between Ireland, Japan, and Korea

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K16680
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Japanese literature
• Research Institution: Kanazawa University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI Akiyo 金沢大学, 歴史言語文化学系, 准教授 (60432530)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 日本近代文学 / 比較文学 / 農民文学 / 農民文芸 / アイルランド文学 / 近代演劇 / 翻訳 / 国策文学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By empirically clarifying the reception of and transformations to Irish literature in the peasant literature of Japan, I examine the characteristics of regional drama movements in Japan from the post-Great Kanto Earthquake period to the mobilisation period during wartime. Furthermore, by comparing the characteristics of the reception of Irish literature in modern Japanese literature with examples of the translation, adaptation, and performance of Irish literature in Korea and Taiwan, I clarify how both people’s lives and social issues in colonized areas were examined and problematized in the modern literature of East Asia. These research results have been reported at the Workshop of the Coference of the Japan Comparative Literature Association, the EAJS International Conference, an international symposium in Ireland, and at other places, and the jointly written “The Literature Crossing the Sea” and “The Translation and Distribution of Japanese Literature” have been published.

Free Research Field

日本文学