From postmodern to post bildungsroman from the ashes: an alternative reading of Murakami Haruki and postwar Japanese culture
From postmodern to post bildungsroman from the ashes: an alternative reading of Murakami Haruki and postwar Japanese culture
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从后现代到后成长小说的灰烬：村上春树与战后日本文化的另类解读
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2009
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Chiaki Takagi
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Chiaki Takagi
我的论文探讨了后殖民话语如何为当代日本的文学作品提供了一个替代的理论框架。我把村上春树的作品作为战后日本的文化民族志来阅读，并将后殖民理论应用于他对日本国家制度的帝国性质和高度控制社会中受压迫的个性的描述。基于战后日本被日本本土
帝国主义，我在后殖民话语中重建了现代日本的文化形态，
应用迈克尔·赫克特、爱德华·赛义德、霍米·巴巴和保罗·吉尔罗伊的理论。我认识到日本帝国主义的根源在于其近代以前的封建主义，它通过内部的扩张，为今天以东京为中心的核心-边缘结构奠定了基础。
殖民主义。本土帝国主义也促进了国家的现代化，通过自我强加的西化（自我殖民主义）以及在亚洲寻求殖民扩张，创造了日本版的西方。在战后的日本，帝国主义隐藏在民主的面具之下，它促进了一种类似于成长小说的对现代历史的自我呈现，村上春树对此提供了相反的叙述。本文对村上作品的考察，挑战了当前后殖民主义研究的地域界限，也为日本所谓的后现代写作提供了一个新的视角。
My dissertation explores how postcolonial discourse offers an alternative theoretical framework for the literary works produced in contemporary Japan. I read the works of Murakami Haruki as cultural ethnographies of postwar Japan and apply postcolonial theories to his representations of the imperial nature of Japan’s State System and the oppressed individuality in a highly controlled society. Based on the idea that postwar Japan is controlled by Japan’s indigenous
imperialism, I reconstruct modern Japan’s cultural formation in postcolonial discourse,
applying theories of Michael Hechter, Edward Said, Homi Bhabha and Paul Gilroy. I recognize the source of Japan’s imperialism in its pre-modern feudalism, which produced the foundation of today’s Tokyo-centered core-periphery structure through internal
colonialism. Indigenous imperialism also promoted the nation’s modernization, creating a Japanese version of the West through self-imposed westernization (self-colonialism) as well as seeking colonial expansion in Asia. In postwar Japan, imperialism is hidden under the mask of democracy and its promotion of a Bildungsroman-like selfrepresentation of modern history, to which Murakami offers counter narratives. My examination of Murakami’s works challenges the geographical boundary made by current postcolonial studies, and it also offers a new perspective on Japan’s socalled postmodern writings.