Insularity in the Literary Imagination of SHIMAO Toshio

• UDO, Satoshi

抄録

One of the most original authors in post-war Japanese literature, SHIMAO Toshio (1917-1986) is known not only for his military career (he was an officer on a ‘suicide boat’ at the end of the WWII) but also for his insightful ideas regarding the Japanese archipelago, which he named ‘Japonesia’ in the 1960s. His idea, which was to situate Japan on the edge of the chained islands loosely extending from Polynesia via Indonesia, the Philippines, and Taiwan, is now recognized as essential to East Asian cross-border area studies. However, the question of how ‘archipelagianess’ functions in SHIMAO’s literary writings has not been studied satisfactorily in the current body of literature. In my paper, I try to identify some insular imagery in his novels and further discuss the metaphors and meanings that the imagery suggests to the reader.

収録刊行物

• 南太平洋海域調査研究報告=Occasional papers

  南太平洋海域調査研究報告=Occasional papers 54 75-78,

  鹿児島大学

キーワード

• insularity
• islandology
• Japanese literature
• SHIMAO Toshio

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• CRID: 1050282677513756032
• NII論文ID: 120005617513
• NII書誌ID: AN1013531X
• ISSN: 13450441
• Web Site: http://hdl.handle.net/10232/24759
• 本文言語コード: en
• 資料種別: departmental bulletin paper
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