2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Ageing and Illness in British and Japanese Children's Picturebooks 1950-2000: Historical and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Project/Area Number |
17KK0030
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Research Category |
Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research)
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Research Field |
Literature in English
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Research Institution | Keio University |
Principal Investigator |
SAKO Katsura 慶應義塾大学, 経済学部(日吉), 教授 (60548262)
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Project Period (FY) |
2018 – 2022
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Keywords | ageing / life course / picturebooks / Britain / Japan / illness / ageing studies / gerontology |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project considered the cultural discourse of ageing, illness (especially dementia) and care, through a close analysis of British and Japanese picturebooks for children. It has suggested how the conception of subjectivity may be culturally informed and how it may affect the understanding, experience and representation of care and care relationships in specific cultural spaces. The project has also brought into focus ways in which genre and media contribute to the narrativisation and the discourse of ageing and illness. Finally, the project has brought together ageing studies, children's literature studies, and the perspectives of ecocriticism and posthumanism, demonstrating the rich potential of these intersections for our understanding of the life course, generations, the future and humans' relationships to human and non-human others. The research outcomes have been disseminated in English, introducing Japanese narratives and studies of ageing in Japan to outside the country.
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Free Research Field |
英文学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
数多くの日英の児童絵本の分析を通して、老いや病い、さらには、子供と老年者(多くは祖父母)の世代間関係、ケアが子どもにむけてどう描かれ、語られているかをより正確に理解することができた。日英の比較により、これらの表象・語りが、文化的に規定されている可能性も認められた。 以上から、児童絵本は、子どもが老い、ケア、世代間関係、ライフコースを理解するうえで重要な役割を果たしうると言える。これは翻っては、これらのこと、さらに、こどもについて、大人が抱く考え、不安、望みを絵本が投影しているということでもある。 高齢化社会において、このような児童絵本の役割が広く理解されることは大変重要である。
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