Prison and the (Im-)possibility of mobility in the Anglophone Caribbean and African Literature

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K02352
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Literature in English
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Science
• Principal Investigator: Yoshida Yutaka 東京理科大学, 工学部教養, 講師 (20734958)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 監獄 / カリブ文学 / 群衆 / 人種化 / 冷戦 / 脱植民地化と統治 / 米軍占領 / 文化

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I examined the relation between prison and colonial governance in Anglophone Caribbean literature. As a consequence, I could not complete my initial plan of research and writing, especially of the relation between African Literature and prison. But I could publish some articles related to Anglophone Caribbean Literature. Especially, I could somehow produce a draft on prison literature that focused on C.L.R. James's book on Herman Melville. Furthermore, there was an unexpected consequence from this project: a perspective on comparative literature in the Cold War era, which contrasts East Asian literature (especially of the Korean War and Okinawa) with Anglophone Caribbean Literature of the 1950s, making the U.S. military occupation a common ground.

Free Research Field

英語圏文学、カリブ文学および思想