2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research on Cultural Representations of "Watan/Homeland" in the Modern Middle East
Project/Area Number |
15H03136
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Area studies
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Research Institution | Kyoto University |
Principal Investigator |
OKA Mari 京都大学, 人間・環境学研究科, 教授 (30315965)
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Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
宮下 遼 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(言語社会専攻、日本語・日本文化専攻), 准教授 (00736069)
山本 薫 東京外国語大学, その他部局等, 非常勤講師 (10431967)
石川 清子 静岡文化芸術大学, 文化政策学部, 教授 (30329528)
藤元 優子 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(言語社会専攻、日本語・日本文化専攻), 教授 (40152590)
福田 義昭 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(言語社会専攻、日本語・日本文化専攻), 准教授 (60390720)
鵜戸 聡 鹿児島大学, 法文教育学域法文学系, 准教授 (70713981)
田浪 亜央江 広島市立大学, 国際学部, 准教授 (70725184)
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Research Collaborator |
NAKAMURA Naho
MAEDA Kimie
SUZUKI Shuri
ISHII Keiichiro
TOKUHARA Yasuhiro
HOSODA Kazue
ISOBE Kayoko
OKAZAKI Hiroki
SUZUKI Katsumi
KURIHARA Toshihide
TAKEDA Toshiyuki
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Project Period (FY) |
2015-04-01 – 2019-03-31
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Keywords | 祖国 / 文学 / 表象 / 中東 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Our research was conducted on works produced in the Middle East in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Hebrew, but also on those outside the geographical boundary of the Middle East, in the European language like English, French, German, and Italian, by those who have their historical origin in the Middle East, and it has revealed, through transregional analysis of the representation of “Watan/Homeland” that appear in various texts, both literary and visual, part of the social and historic states of the modern Middle East and their dynamism, focusing on “the Watan”, as well as their similarities not limited by national border or regional boundaries, and natures peculiar to a specific country or region. The research also shows experiences of the people of the modern Middle East, answering to the universal question “what is homeland to a human being?”.
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Free Research Field |
現代アラブ文学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
現代中東世界でアラビア語をはじめとする中東の諸言語で、また欧米で、英語その他西洋の言語で生産される文学をはじめとする作品における「祖国」表象の分析を通して、近現代中東の社会的・歴史的ありようとそのダイナミズム、そして国民国家や言語文化の境界を越えた共通性とともに各国・各地域の固有性を明らかにすると同時に、近現代中東の人々の経験を通して「人間にとって祖国とは何か」という普遍的問いに応答した。
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