2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Representation of Holocaust in Jewish American Literature: Its Continuation and Transformation
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22520267
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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 |
Literature in English
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| Research Institution | Japan Women's University |
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Principal Investigator |
OBA Masako 日本女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (80160612)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
SAGAWA Kazushige 青山学院大学, 経営学部, 教授 (20137871)
SAKANO Akiko (20153900)
DATE Masahiko (00254889)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2012
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| Keywords | 米文学 |
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| Research Abstract |
The research group confirmed that the theme of Holocaust has been succeeded in Jewish American novels since 1950s, when Jewish American writers were given special attentions in the American society, to the present, while its representations have been transformed in many ways. In addition, we observed that the “golem,” a kind of android in Jewish traditional folklore, has been used as a representation of Holocaust by some eminent contemporary Jewish American writers. The research on the representation of “golem”is reported in a book The Representation of Golem: Jewish Literature, Animations, and Films published in 2013.
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