2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Anthropocene Literature Viewed and Captivated by Canadian Writers: Towards a Shift from Human Centrality
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20K00433
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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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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02030:English literature and literature in the English language-related
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| Research Institution | Kindai University (2021-2023)
Matsue National College of Technology (2020) |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
佐藤 アヤ子 明治学院大学, 国際平和研究所, 研究員 (70139468)
荒木 陽子 敬和学園大学, 人文学部, 准教授 (90511543)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | カナダ / 環境文学 / エコクリティシズム / アントロポセン（人新世） / カナダ西海岸のアジア系作家 / カナダ東海岸のヨーロッパ系作家 / M. アトウッド |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Focusing on the Anthropocene, when human activities have brought about serious changes in the global environment, such as environmental destruction and climate change, we have considered the attitudes of Canadian writers toward issues occurring in Canada and abroad in this project. Our finding is that many writers depict helplessness of human beings in the face of crisis and suggest what we should think about in order to tide over the present difficult times. Another finding is that we can read the writers' literary resistance to the capitalist economy system expanding in the world in their works. Through oral presentations at national and international conferences, research papers, and planning or organizing symposia and workshops, we have published the research results and shown the diversity and breadth of Canadian literature on the environment although only slightly.
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| Free Research Field |
カナダの環境文学
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究では、アメリカ合衆国主導の環境文学研究において、これまで見過ごされていたカナダの作品に目を向け、多様なカナダ人作家の作品の独自性と接点を探り、アントロポセンにおけるカナダの環境文学の特性を明らかにすることを目指した。本研究はカナダ文学と環境文学の研究に一部貢献できたと言える。本研究はまた、今後、人間が社会や環境との関係をいかに築いていくべきかを思考する契機を与え得る。以上より、学術的、社会的な意義があると考える。
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