2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Disaster and Survival in American Literature After the Cold War
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26370350
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Nishikyushu University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
OCHI Hiromi 一橋大学, 経営管理研究科, 教授 (90251727)
SHIMOJO Keiko 九州大学, 言語文化研究院, 准教授 (30510713)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
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| Keywords | ディザスター / 戦争小説 / 現代アメリカ文学 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This research project has examined various modes of contemporary human survival in literary works published mainly in the post-Cold War America, by focusing on the "disaster" broadly defined to include wars and acts of terrorism. The results of the research are roughly as follows:(1)Continued post-war mindsets in American culture after the 9.11 terrorist attacks (2)The foregrounding of personal narratives instead of national history in the series of Vietnam War novels by Tim O'Brien (3)The historical transformation of the American road narrative as a mode of writing survival (4)Deconstructed American survival by the literary and cultural representations of Latin America during the last phase of the Cold War (5)The perpetual sense of defeat in the American South in resonance with post-war Japanese mindsets.
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| Free Research Field |
アメリカ文学
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