Cross-Cultural Analysis of Postwar Repatriation Narratives in Japanese and Asian Literatures

该项目通过对日本遣返文学(Hikiage Bungaku)与以其他亚洲语言编写和出版的战后移民和回归叙事之间关系的跨文化考察，为亚洲战后遣返叙事的研究做出了贡献。第二次世界大战后，数以百万计的被遣返者和返回者进行了返回日本和亚洲其他国家的航行。对这些旅程的记忆和重新解读是相当多文学作品的主题，最近由日本归国人员(Hikiagesha)撰写的关于归国文学的研究已经开始揭示归国对战后世界的重大和持续的影响。该项目不仅通过突出日本归国文学的内在国际性(这必然涉及复杂的跨国界运动和不同背景的人之间的接触)，而且通过将日本归国文学研究的见解应用于日本以外的新背景，扩大了日本归国文学研究的范围。特别是，该项目致力于探讨战后遣返叙述的相互影响，这些叙述通常是在特定的国家历史和民族文献的背景下解释的。通过对人与文本双向流动的分析，有助于我们更好地理解战争记忆、战后国际关系以及文学的功能和效果。

This project contributes to the study of postwar repatriation narratives in Asia by serving as a cross-cultural examination of the relationship between Japanese repatriation literature, or hikiage bungaku, and postwar narratives of migration and return written and published in other Asian languages. After World War II, millions of repatriates and returnees undertook voyages of return, both to Japan and to other countries across Asia. Memories and reinterpretations of these journeys were the topic of a significant number of literary works, and recent research on repatriation literature written by Japanese repatriates (hikiagesha) has begun to reveal the significant and ongoing influence of repatriation on the postwar world.This project expands the scope of ongoing research on Japanese repatriation literature not only by highlighting the inherently international nature of Japanese repatriation, which necessarily involved complex movements across national borders and contact between people from vastly different backgrounds, but also by applying insights from the study of Japanese repatriation literature to new contexts outside of Japan. In particular, the project is engaged in exploring the mutual influence of postwar repatriation narratives that have usually been interpreted within the context of particular national histories and national literatures. Such analysis of the bidirectional movement of both people and texts promises to enhance our understanding of war memory, postwar international relations, and the functions and effects of literature.