2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Cultural Identity and the Formation of a New Canon of World Literature in the Age of Globalization
| Project/Area Number |
20320052
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Literatures/Literary theories in other countries and areas
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NOYA Fumiaki 東京大学, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (60198637)
SHIBATA Motoyuki 東京大学, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 教授 (90170901)
KATO Ariko 東京大学, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 助教 (90583170)
MOURI Kumi 東京大学, 大学院・人文社会系研究科, 助教 (30419212)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2012
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| Keywords | 世界文学 / 翻訳 / 広域英語圏文学 / ラテンアメリカ文学 / ロシア東欧文学 / 現代日本文学 / 越境文学 / 文学のカノン |
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| Research Abstract |
This research project is based on the collaboration of specialists of English-language literature, Spanish-language literature, and Russian and East European literature. We investigated the complicated process of contemporary world literature comprehensively, taking a broad view that would make it possible for us to go across the borders of nations and languages, and explored new approaches to literary studies. As a result, we succeeded in showing clearly that even in the age of globalization, world literature is not being homogenized one-sidedly; it is rather becoming richly diversified as a whole. We also expanded the conventional framework of world literature centrally based on the Western literary canon, and studied possibilities of a new canon of world literature that would integrate Japanese literature into itself.
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