The Japan-Australia Relationship as Represented in 21st CenturyAustralia Literature with Special Emphasis on Multiculturalism and the Pacific War

本研究基于研究者之前的课题：澳大利亚文学中日本和日本人的表征。进一步探讨了太平洋战争前澳大利亚文学作品中对日本人的典型描述“未知的他者”在战争经历和澳大利亚多元文化政策的影响下是如何发生变化的，从而在21世纪的澳大利亚文学作品中对日本人进行了新的表述。社会变迁与文学相互影响，作者作为“文化中介”的角色十分重要。

This research is based on the researcher’s former topic:representations of Japan and Japanese people in Australian literature. It furtherexplores how the typical descriptions of the Japanese, “unknown other”, in Australianliterary works before the Pacific War have been changed under the influence of warexperiences and Australia’s policy of multiculturalism, thus giving new representations ofthe Japanese in Australian writings in the 21st century. It shows social changes andliterature have reciprocal influence, and that the roles of authors are significant as“cultures-go-between”