2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The South Pacific in European History and Subjectivity in the Modern Pacific Literature
| Project/Area Number |
20520219
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Kanazawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
YAMAMOTO Taku Kanazawa University, 学校教育系, 教授 (10293325)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 英米文学 / 太平洋文学 / ポストコロニアル批評 / 植民地主義 |
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| Research Abstract |
This project attempts to examine the significance of "the South Pacific" both in European imaginations and the contemporary Pacific literary works : How Europeans have generated the imaginary Pacific in their literature and how contemporary indigenous writers employ or decline those traditional ideas in creating their own identity. In order to provide another perspective, it also refers to Japanese literary representations of the region in the prewar period.
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