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〈女〉の在処を求めて ――吉屋信子「鬼火」（1951）のフェミニズム的再考
https://doi.org/10.34577/00004413
https://doi.org/10.34577/00004413fad83bdc-94d0-40b7-bc97-cc5ae96dbc84
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〈女〉の在処を求めて ――吉屋信子「鬼火」（1951）のフェミニズム的再考 (13.1 MB)
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| Item type | 紀要論文 / Departmental Bulletin Paper(1) | |||||
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| 公開日 | 2018-12-03 | |||||
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| タイトル | 〈女〉の在処を求めて ――吉屋信子「鬼火」（1951）のフェミニズム的再考 | |||||
| 言語 | ja | |||||
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| タイトル | Oh Woman, Where Art Thou? Rethinking Yoshiya Nobuko’s Short Story Onibi (1951) from a Feminist Perspective | |||||
| 言語 | en | |||||
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| 資源タイプ識別子 | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 | |||||
| 資源タイプ | departmental bulletin paper | |||||
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| ID登録 | 10.34577/00004413 | |||||
| ID登録タイプ | JaLC | |||||
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| アクセス権 | open access | |||||
| アクセス権URI | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2 | |||||
| 著者 |
ヴューラー, シュテファン
× ヴューラー, シュテファン |
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| 内容記述タイプ | Abstract | |||||
| 内容記述 | Onibi (Foxfire) is a short story by Japanese author Yoshiya Nobuko. First published in 1951 in the pages of Fujin Koron (Lady's Review), it portrays a few days in the life of gas bill collector Chushich, who on his rounds through the neighborhood of what appears to be early postwar Tokyo, visits the house of a nameless woman whom he attempts to coerce into having sex with him in exchange for paying her gas bill, only to find her having hanged herself a few days later. Onibi is an exceptional work for several reasons. For one, it is one of the few prose texts by Yoshiya that was awarded a literary prize, in this case the Joryu Bungakusha-sho (Women Writers Association Prize) in 1951. It was also met with a positive response from Japan's literary establishment, a fact that led to a tendency in secondary literature to consider it within in the context of junbungaku (high literature) as opposed to taishu-bungaku (popular literature). Without attempting to arrive at a final answer, I discuss this relation between Onibi and junbungaku in the first half of this paper, pointing out several aspects that could complicate an understanding of Onibi's positive reception as recognition of Yoshiya’s writing on part of the literary establishment when viewed from a feminist perspective. Furthermore, characterized by a third-person narration that focuses on the perspective of the male protagonist Chushichi and the absence of Yoshiya’s ornamental and melodramatic prose, Onibi seems to differ from Yoshiya’s earlier works such as, for instance, her shojo novels. It thus poses the question of how to situate Onibi and its nameless female character within the broader context of Yoshiya’s oeuvre. As I demonstrate in the second half of this paper, it is not only through the woman's position of being confined to the realm of the fantastic — either as the ghost of a dead woman or a fetishistic object of male desire ― that Onibi becomes a critique of an androcentric society and postwar Japan, as the few secondary texts on this short story suggest. It is exactly in the fact that the text allows for a reading of the woman as beyond the realistic and the social ― significantly, a realm superimposed on the home-while at the same time rejecting the equation of women with the fantastic by showing her to also be a social, real being, that Onibi undermines androcentric constructions of women. This critique is further developed through the depiction of Chushichi, as the text emphasizes the theatricality of his masculinity, making possible a parodistic reading of Chushichi and, by analogy, of Onibi as a rejection of postwar Japan and its heterosexist gender norms. While a parodistic reading also poses problems with regards to the historical and social relativity of intention, as I will briefly elaborate in my concluding remarks, it is in this polysemantic ambivalence that Onibi becomes a negotiation of femaleness, and as such, can be placed within the genealogy of Yoshiya’s female-centered prose texts. |
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| 言語 | en | |||||
| 書誌情報 |
ja : ジェンダー&セクシュアリティ 号 12, p. 103-129, 発行日 2017-03-31 |
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| 収録物識別子 | 18804764 | |||||
