2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
From Public Discourse to Literary Text: A Comparative Study of Autobiographical Novels in the American South and "I"-Novels in Modern Japan
| Project/Area Number |
24520316
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
|
| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
|---|
| Section | 一般 |
|---|
| Research Field |
Literature in English
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Rikkyo University |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2016-03-31
|
| Keywords | アメリカ南部文学 / 日本近代文学 / 自伝的傾向 / 私小説 |
|---|
| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study, building on Fred Hobson's important critique in his _Tell About the South_ (1983) --that the American South has maintained "rage to explain" as one of its dominant cultural characteristics; therefore, its literature has had a tendency to become autobiographical--first, explored the South's historical background in order to see how this literary mechanism is produced, particularly focusing on how its literary works have often been direct outputs of the writers' or other opinion makers' public addresses concerning socio-historical problems enfolding them, and, secondly, in order to foreground this peculiarity of the southern literature, compared it with modern Japanese literature where severance of literary narrative from public discourse has always been considered as its unique trait. This study was organized through a series of comparative analyses between individual literary texts of southern autobiographical novels and modern Japanese iconic "I"-novels.
|
| Free Research Field |
アメリカ文学
|
