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井伏鱒二と「ちぐはぐ」な近代―漂流するアクチュアリティ

Kubota Utsubo Award

井伏鱒二と「ちぐはぐ」な近代―漂流するアクチュアリティ

Akisho Takiguchi

A critical study that refuses to confine Masuji Ibuse to the fixed image of a writer of common people, instead reading motifs such as drifters, exiles, and migrants to uncover hybridity and the dislocations of modernity in his work. It repositions Ibuse through themes including nonsense, documentary force, and resistance to historical narrative.

Masuji Ibusemodern Japanese literary studiespopular literaturehybridity

Work Information

It reads the awkward modernity of Ibuse's literature behind the familiar image of the common-people writer.

The awarded work is listed as Ibuse Masuji Kenkyu, while the confirmed published bibliographic title is Ibuse Masuji to 'Chiguhagu' na Kindai. ISBN data was confirmed through Japanese book-trade/library-style sources, and ISBN-10 is used as the paper ASIN.

Review Summaries

  • The book is read as a critical study that releases Ibuse from a fixed author image and carefully follows dislocation and hybridity across his works. It is not a light introduction for general readers, but its scholarly problem setting is clear.

Book Information

Publisher
新曜社
Published
2012-11-28
Pages
374 pages
Language
日本語
Size
12.7 x 3 x 18.8 cm
ISBN-13
9784788513143
ISBN-10
4788513145
Price
4180 JPY
Category
本/文学・評論/評論・文学研究/日本文学研究

「庶民派」作家と見られてきた井伏鱒二は、漂流民、亡命者、移民なども多く描いた。丁寧な分析をとおして、彼の作品のもつ異種混淆(ハイブリッド)性、〈近代〉の「ちぐはぐ」さを炙り出す。従来の井伏像に一大転換を迫る、気鋭の力作評論。

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