A Cultural Study of the "Historical" Novel and Autobiography in the Southern Renaissance Period

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1. I investigated studies of American Southern literature, which were published in Japan in 2001, and published the results in Studies in Languages and Cultures (Kyushu University), No. 17.2. I reconsidered William Faulkner's sense of history in an essay entitled "History in Writing/Writing in History: Faulkner's Go Down, Moses and Historical Consciousness," which appeared in the March 2003 issue of Eigo Seinen.3. I wrote "The Intertextuality between Warren and Faulkner" and included it in the report of my research project as an appendix 1.4. I wrote a short, somewhat personal essay, "Historical Use of Literature: Murata Kiyoko and Faulkner as an example," in which I dealt with the relationship between history and literature, taking into consideration the recent trend of postmodern understanding of history. This essay is included in my research project report as an appendix 2.5. The third chapter of my research project report deals with the problems of fact and fiction, historical narration and ethnicity, and so on, in William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. I presented a possibility of reading the novel as a "trans-ethnic" work.