Meta-Narratives of Southeast Asian History: Nation-State, Gender, Modernity

经过三年的持续讨论，所有成员对东南亚历史中的“元叙事”问题达成了共识，这一概念将导致对该地区现有历史叙事的新评估，但日本相关学术界几乎不知道。每个成员都努力重新审视与自己的研究主题有关的主流话语。例如，小泉质疑暹罗历史上“奴隶制”和“雇佣劳工”的尖锐二分法，并揭示了“进步”的概念作为一种元叙事，产生了这种不言而喻的真理。另一方面，伊藤则追溯了人们熟悉的“无辜”话语来描述克伦人，发现这是殖民主义的现代产物，而不是本质真理。小林还研究了Kartini的形象和神话，Kartini是20世纪初爪哇著名的女性民族主义人物，并认为她被民族主义时代的男性历史学家浪漫地描绘和神话化为悲剧的海洛因。另一方面，托萨通过缅甸医疗实践的历史，质疑现代与传统之间的分界线。她认为，我们所谓的“传统”也经历了变化，以响应现代医疗实践的引入。lijima还提请我们注意Phongsawadan Isan的现代创作，该文本被认为是泰国东北部的重要历史来源。是由丹荣王子“编辑”的，以适应20世纪初泰国王国整合该地区的政治目标。Sugawara通过使用长期被忽视的“pegon”文件，为19世纪爪哇的伊斯兰教提供了新的视角。

After three years of continual discussion, all members have arrived at a common understanding of the question of "meta-nafrative" in Southeast Asian history, the notion which would lead to a new appraisal of existing historical narratives of the region but had been almost unknown to the relevant academic circle in Japan. Each member endeavored to reexamine the dominant discourse concerning one's own topic for research. Koizumi, for instance, questions the sharp dichotomy between "slavery" and "wage labours" in Siamese history and reveals that the notion of "progress" has served as a meta-narrative to produce such narratives as self-evident truth. Ito, on the other hand, traces back the familiar discourse of "innocence" to describe the Karen people and finds out that it is a modern product of colonialism rather than a essential truth. Kobayashi also examines the image and myth of Kartini, a famous female nationalist figure in Java in the beginning of the 20^<th> century and argues that she has been romantically portrayed and mythicised as a tragic heroin by male historians in the age of nationalism. Tosa, on the other hand, questions the dividing line between modern and tradition by taking the history of medical practices in Burma. She suggests that what we call as "traditional" has also gone through changes responding to the introduction of modern medical practices. lijima also calls our attention to the modern creation of Phongsawadan Isan, the text which has been regarded as an important historical source for Northeast Thailand but. was "edited" by Prince Damrong to suit the political aim to integrate the region in Thai kingdom in the early 20th century. Sugawara sheds new lights oil the Islam in 19~ century Java by using long neglected "pegon" documents.