2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A Study on the Responses of Japanese Scholars of English and American Literature to the atomic bombing of Nagasaki
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18K00406
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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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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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| Research Institution | University of Tsukuba |
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Principal Investigator |
Saito Hajime 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 准教授 (20302341)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Keywords | 原子爆弾 / 長崎 / 核ディザスター / 英米文学者 / 伊東勇太郎 / Edmund Blunden / G. S. Fraser / 引田稔 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this KAKENHI research, I have mainly studied on three men: Yutaro Ito, a scholar of English Literature in Nagasaki University; Edmund Blunden, an English poet who visited Nagasaki and made lectures in 1949; G. S. Fraser, an English poet who visited the city and made lecture in 1951. I I have discovered some of their previously unknown reactions to the atomic bombing of the city by carefully reading articles in the alumni magazine of the Faculty of Economics of Nagasaki University, the university newspaper and its PR magazine, the Nagasaki Nichinichi Shimbun and Nagasaki Minyu Shimbun, two newspapers in Nagasaki Prefecture. In addition, I have happened to know about and have investigated the reactions of Minoru Hikita, a French teacher at Nagasaki University, to the French nuclear tests in the Pacific. Finally, I have published research papers on Ito and Hikita, and made a presentation on Blunden. As for Fraser, I have a plan to publish the results in the near future.
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| Free Research Field |
英語圏文学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
広島市と長崎市に原子爆弾を投下したアメリカや連合国であったイギリスは日本にとって「敵」であり、日本の英米文学者は戦後かつての「敵」の文学を研究することになった。特に広島市や長崎市で原爆を体験した英米文学者は「敵」の文学について厳しく複雑な対応を余儀なくされたはずだが、このことについての先行研究は拙論（2017年）以外にはほとんどなく、拙論も広島の英米文学者を多く取り上げているという偏りがある。長崎市の英米文学者に注目した本研究は、こうした研究状況に一石を投じ、核兵器の使用という極度の危機に関して文学研究者がなし得ることを検証した。新たな核戦争の危機が迫る現在、この研究は極めて重要である。
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