表題番号:2021C-678 日付:2022/04/06
研究課題New Critical Approaches to Archival Methodologies: Contemporary Archivization, World Literature, and the Haruki Murakami Library
研究者所属(当時) 資格 氏名
(代表者) 国際文学館 助手 シリックス エリック ジェームズ
研究成果概要
This research funding supported the final stages of my dissertation, “Scaling the Nation: Local Literary Production and National Literature in Postwar Japan, 1946-1955.” This dissertation deploys scalar methodologies to challenge the archivization of postwar Japanese literature as a “national” literature. In doing so, my research shows how the archives of Occupation censorship can reshape our understanding of not only postwar literary history, but also translation and world literature. Occupation censorship could only function if it affirmed the literature’s affective power and translated that literature for a transnational readership. In this warped version of world literature, we discover that translation need not be accurate, substantial, or intelligible. 

Viewing archives through the lens of scale provides a new perspective on the creation of contemporary archives. In the case of the holdings of the Waseda International House of Literature (The Haruki Murakami Library), scalar research on archivization show the need to contextualize a “global” author through a wide variety of local and historical archival objects.