2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Greater Ireland beyond the Sea: Politics in Contemporary Transatlantic Famine Fiction
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15K16708
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Yasuda Women's University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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| Keywords | アイルランド / アイルランド大飢饉 / 記憶 / 移民 / 環大西洋 / 北米 / Jane Urquhart / Colum McCann |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study has examined how the memory of the Great Irish Famine is represnted by contemporary Irish, Irish-born and Irish-related writers whose creative activities are transatlantic. In their works, the memory of the Famine is effectively used not only to immortalize the Famine as Irish national tragedy or racial memory, but also highlight other issues icluding the oppression of women, racial discrimination and the immigration problem.
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| Free Research Field |
イギリス文学、アイルランド英語文学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
大飢饉というアイルランドの国家的・民族的悲劇の記憶が、単に後世に継承されるだけでなく、他の現代的な社会問題と関連付けられていくことを明らかにした本研究は、第二次世界大戦と原爆という悲劇的記憶を今後どのように継承していくかという問題を抱えるわが国にとっても、その文学的応答の例を示すという点において、学術的意義・社会的意義を有すると考える。
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