2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Representation of Global Civil War in Contemporary British Fiction
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17K02524
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Kansai University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Keywords | 現代イギリス小説 / 世界的内戦 / テロ / トラウマ / 情動 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project is designed to understand the scope of 21st-century British novels that explore the global civil war, or the never-ending war. While British-Pakistani authors such as Nadeem Aslam and Kamila Shamsie seek to represent the trauma of marginalised people in ways accessible to a wider readership, writers such as David Mitchell produce more imaginative texts that help us envision a post-apocalyptic future. Significantly, both categories of writers address commonly experienced affects such as collective trauma and anxiety of the future threat. These trends at once testify the diversity of contemporary British writers and suggests the increasing importance of affects for those writers.
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| Free Research Field |
英文学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究は、現代イギリス小説がとりわけ9.11同時多発テロ以降の世界をどのように表象してきたか、とりわけ登場人物を通じてその世界がどのような情動とともに受けとめられてきたかを明らかにした。トラウマ研究や情動理論からの知見を得ており、研究成果の一部は学際的なトラウマ研究の論文集What Happened?: Re-Presenting Traumas, Uncovering RecoveriesやTopography of Trauma: Fissures, Disruptions and Transfigurationsにも採録されている。
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