Osaki Midori and the Role of the Girl in Shōwa Modernism
Osaki Midori and the Role of the Girl in Shōwa Modernism
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大崎绿与昭和现代主义中女孩的角色
DOI:
10.1080/10357820802299684
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发表时间:
2008
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通讯作者:
T. Aoyama
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作者:
Kawasaki Kenko;L. Fraser;T. Aoyama
Sh ojo [girl] culture in Japan is often treated rather narrowly as a moratorium culture, in which the young are able to choose to prolong their adolescence and delay the onset of adulthood. It is assumed to have appealed to generations of Japanese girls expected to become housewives in the new middle class that began to emerge after the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05). However, a closer look at sh ojo magazines, illustrations, all-women musical revues and the like reveals a more complex picture, in which girl culture branches out into unique avenues of expression. This goes some way to explaining the prolonged and rich influence sh ojo culture continues to exert on contemporary subcultures. It is particularly rewarding to analyse this girl culture from the perspectives of gender, sexuality and class, and to look at the participation of both liminal and border-crossing artists in its expressions. It is also interesting to investigate the expansion, transference and deviations of the concept of sh ojo itself in order to contextualise its various cultural manifestations. In the first half of this paper I will discuss the representations of the sh ojo in the early Sh owa period (1926–89), since the rise of the ‘‘modern girl’’. The second half will focus particularly on the writer Osaki Midori (1896–1971) and the figure of the sh ojo in some of her texts.