Study on Italian War POW "Concentration Camp Literature": Toward the Construction of "World History of POWs"

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 21K00428
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 02040:European literature-related
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo (2022-2023); Ritsumeikan University (2021)
• Principal Investigator: Doi Hideyuki 東京大学, 大学院人文社会系研究科(文学部), 准教授 (40334271)
• Project Period (FY): 2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: 収容所文学 / トラウマ文学 / 捕虜の世界史 / 現代イタリア文学 / 捕囚とジェンダー / 戦争文学 / イタリアの両大戦 / 病と収容

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In the first year, I prepared an answer to the question of what Italy’s “war literature” was, using a frame from the concentration camps. In other words, for Italy, the war (World War I) was a leap forward into becoming a modern nation, but at the same time, it also forced stagnation and trauma due to the severe and widespread state of “containment”. In the second year, I examined Gadda’s notes as a source of creativity in the camp. In Gadda, literature itself, rather than experience, becomes an obsession. In the final year, I was able to pursue the possibility of talking about detention in contrast to Migrant literature. The results of this research can be seen in the fact that approaches from different angles have been suggestive in proposing a new genre called “concentration camp literature”.

Free Research Field

イタリア文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

世界大戦はなにも戦いや衝突ばかりではなく、一種の停滞も生んだ。「捕虜の世界史」は、戦争の裏を見つつも、深い傷としての戦争（と人間存在）の本質に迫ることを社会に対し、はじめて明かしている。捕囚とそのトラウマや自己喪失に至る効果は、幅広くみられた現象であると同時に、「収容所文学」のような新たな創造性の発露という固有の事象を生む。その固有性に、横糸としてのジャンルを創設することを本研究は企図し、学術の世界で、さまざまな発表や論文でうったえるよう試みた。