The Significance of National Narratives in the Literatures of the US South and Modern Japan

这项研究从“国家叙事”——一种回应“失败文化”的公共文化话语——追溯了历史的发展，以19世纪中期共同经历迟来的现代化的历史命运的美国南方和近代日本为例，通过分析各自特有的“现代化”过程中所产生的各种类型的文化文本，从而开辟一个新的视角来比较这两种复杂的“现代”文学。

This study has traced the historical development from a "national narrative," a public cultural discourse addressed in response to "the culture of defeat," to a private discourse of literature, as found in the US South and modern Japan, both of which shared the historical fate of experiencing the belated modernization in the middle of the 19th century, by analyzing various types of cultural texts produced in the involved processes of their own peculiar "modernizations" in the aftermath of their cultural defeats, thereby to open up a new perspective with which to compare these two complex "modern" literatures.