The discovery and development of Taiwanese female literature in the Early post Guang-fu Era

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K00360
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02020:Chinese literature-related
• Research Institution: Meijo University
• Principal Investigator: Matsuura Noriko (豊田周子) 名城大学, 外国語学部, 准教授 (10749807)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: 台湾 / 女性 / 戦後初期 / ライティング / 文学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research focuses on the cultural continuity and commonalities within East Asia between Taiwan, Japan, China, and the Korean Peninsula in the early postwar period (The period in this application will refer to 1945-1949)from the position of “literary research”, published as The Rise of Female Writers in Taiwanese Literature: from being the object to being the creator 1945-1949(Kwansei Gakuin University Press, 2021).
In this book, we will examine poems written in Chinese colloquial style as Taiwanese women’s infancy literature in the early postwar period, and explore the Japanese-text that describe the construction of Taiwanese women’s Independence.

Free Research Field

台湾文学・中国近現代文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究は、戦後初期に台湾女性たちによって書かれた文芸作品を通じて、戦後の台湾女性の主体性が如何にして形成されたかを探求している。歴史に埋もれたマイノリティである台湾女性の精神的営為を明らかにすることは、男性作家の作品が中心となった既存の文学史や文学評価の基準を再考するという意義を持つだけでなく、今日の社会的趨勢にも符合することと言えよう。