Generation of regional characteristics in the 1940s Japanese literature - evacuation, resettlement in the Tohoku region

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24520201
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Japanese literature
• Research Institution: Yamagata University
• Principal Investigator: MORIOKA Takashi 山形大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (70369289)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NIHEI Masato 弘前大学, 教育学部, 講師 (20547393) ; TAKAHASHI Shutaro 東北工業大学, 共通教育センター, 准教授 (40513065) ; NOGUCHI Tetsuya 都留文科大学, 文学部, 准教授 (90533000) ; YAMAZAKI Yoshimitsu 秋田大学, 教育文化学部, 准教授 (10311044) ; TAKAHASHI Yuki 福島大学, 人間発達文化学類, 准教授 (90625005)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 地域文学運動 / 疎開文学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We conducted a complete enumeration of newspaper articles related to the literature and cultural activities, and created the material basis for forecast the cultural activities in the Tohoku region.
The dynamics of the derived literary activities through specific contact that occurred in the evacuation was revealed by research with a focus on local magazine. As a result, various specific phase, such as the relationship between literary modernism and regional characteristics, the actual situation of the regional activities of the evacuation poets, was revealed. We also have provided a new view about the relationship between a regional and nationalism in the background.

Free Research Field

日本近代文学