2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study of Housing and Living in William Faulkner's Works
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17K02555
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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 | Kwansei Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2017-04-01 – 2022-03-31
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| Keywords | アメリカ文学 / ウィリアム・フォークナー / ナサニエル・ホーソーン / American Literature / William Faulkner / Nathaniel Hawthorne |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
I conducted literature search, literature review, and field surveys in New Orleans, and presented and wrote papers on William Faulkner's experiences in Paris, "That Evening Sun," Light in August, Pylon, The Wild Palms, The Unvanquished, and Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles. I also presented and wrote a paper on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables. In the course of these research, I began to link my study of sense of place to the issues of race and ethnicity. The expanded theme ultimately allowed me to achieve more meaningful results than I had originally planned for my research.
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| Free Research Field |
アメリカ文学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
フォークナー研究において人種・民族問題は重要な研究テーマの一つであるが、住まいと暮らしの議論と人種差別・隔離政策としてのジム・クロウを組み合わせた研究はあまり例を見ないため、こうした内容の考察に取り組んだ本研究は学術的意義が高いと思われる。ブラック・ライヴズ・マターで黒人の存在意義が問われるなど、現代のアメリカにおいても、人種・民族問題は避けては通れないテーマであるため、本研究は社会的意義も高いと思われる。
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