2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Fictionalized Battlefields: The Vietnam War in American Literature

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22652027
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Literature in English
Research Institution	Saga University
Principal Investigator	TAKANO Goro 佐賀大学, 医学部, 准教授 (60404167)
Project Period (FY)	2010 – 2012
Keywords	アメリカ文学 / ヴェトナム戦争 / 戦争文学
Research Abstract	I spent the first year of this 3-year research reading closely as many important Vietnam-War-related works in US (novels, short stories, poetry, plays) asI could as well as watching analytically as many Vietnam-War-related films as possible. In the second year, I focused mainly on selected American novels and short stories on the Vietnam War with a strong thematic concern for the ways women are depicted in those works, and published a comprehensive paper on the intricate relations between the very war and gender. In the third year, I shifted my academic focus ontothe works of some important contemporary American poets on the Vietnam War, and published a comprehensive paper where the significance of the poetics that attempt toconnect battlefields to everyday lives is particularly stressed.