2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Literature and Society in Souoth Africa - for Rewriting Modern South African History
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11610548
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
その他の外国語・外国文学
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Seika Univeristy |
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Principal Investigator |
KUSUNOSE Keiko Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (00200204)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1999 – 2001
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| Keywords | South Africa / Women / Literature / Society / History |
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| Research Abstract |
Women in South Africa have played an important role in the liberation struggle as members of the political organizations, as trade unionists and in other capacities. Historically on the early stage, they started to carry on militant campaigns against the pass laws by the great march of women to the Union Buildings in Pretoria on 9th August of 1956. Although they have made a great contribution to the struggles, many women suffered restriction, imprisonment, torture and even brutal assassination by the apartheid regime. However, the women's voices have not recorded in history of the struggle mostly except the few autobiographies or autobiographical novels. However, those stories were not available widely for the audiences mainly because of financial reasons such as high prices and foreign publications. Moreover, the most writers of these works spoke about the women's situations from the leading positions as'a mother' in the struggle. However, women's testimonies for the Truth Reconciliation Commission are quite different from these narratives, maintaining the various experiences of women who suffered.
In my project, I tried to seek the relationship between women's literature and TRC through women narratives.
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Research Products
(9 results)
