Modern War and Africa in Senegal and French literature : Primitive as a Modernity

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25511012
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: 文化学
• Research Institution: Seijo University
• Principal Investigator: YOSHIZAWA Hideki 成城大学, 文芸学部, 非常勤講師 (30648415)
• Research Collaborator: LAMBAL Raphaël セネガル・ジガンショール大学, 人文学部, 専任講師 ; EGUCHI Yoshimitsu 成城大学, 文芸学部, 非常勤講師 ; OGAWA Ryo 東京外国語大学, アジア・アフリカ言語文化研究所, 名誉教授 ; KIMIZU Chisato お茶の水女子大学, グローバルリーダーシップ研究所, 特別研究員 ; TACHIBANA Fuhito 早稲田大学, 文学部, 非常勤講師 ; YAMAGUCHI Norio 共立女子大学, 文芸学部, 非常勤講師
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 間大陸的黒人表象 / モダニズム / 植民地行政 / 第一次世界大戦 / プリミティヴ・アート / 国際研究者交流（セネガル） / セネガル狙撃兵 / インターナショナリズム

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In order to examine the influence of the cultural representations of Africa or Black People appearing as "unprecedented" in modernist writings, produced mainly after the First World War, we conducted cross-disciplinary research on this matter with experts from Anthropology, History of Art, Aesthetics and French/British/American/ African Modernist Literature from Japan and Senegal. As a result, our study reveals a space for intercontinental discourse that links the cultural representations of Black People to that of Modern Western society. Furthermore, it demonstrates that such representations shared within a contemporary field of discourse have had a critical impact on the construction of identity for both Western Modernist artists and African intellectuals of this era.

Free Research Field

フランス語圏文学・文化研究