
The Consciousness of Homeland and National Identity: The Study on Oba Minako’s Shabby Museum
- 건국대학교 모빌리티인문학 연구원, 건국대학교 아시아·디아스포라 연구소
- International Journal of Diaspora&Cultural Criticism
- Vol.6 No.1
- : KCI등재후보
- 2016.01
- 58 - 75 (18 pages)
Oba Minako is the representative of the female writers in the Japanese post-war literary arena, who are known as “the introverted generation”. Shabby Museum, one of her medium-length novels, won the Japanese Female Literary Award in 1975. This novel gives an account of the life of three Asian females living in Alaska. The author, taking Alaska, a city of wasteland, as the stage, keeps on focusing on the “postwar” life and spiritual state of the females and successfully portrays the image of “spirit of rebellion” of the heroines who are suffer war damage. As an important part of female writing, Shabby Museum is one of Oba’s major pieces, in which she has not only carried out a profound analysis of the cruelty of war and the existence of females, but also explored the ideal of harmonious co-existence of human beings. The novel also highlights the heroines’ loss of national identity and “the consciousness of homeland”. During the process of exploring the possibility of coexistence of multi-racial groups and the diversity of living patterns under the multi-cultural circumstance, the novel, meanwhile, calls in question the order of the “post-war” world.
1. 异质文化碰撞与《破烂博物馆》的家国、民族认同问题
2. 家国意识、民族认同问题的多样写书写
3. 结语: 《破烂博物馆》中多元文化共生的美学理想
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