- 著者
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Tan Daniela
- 出版者
- 国文学研究資料館
- 雑誌
- 国際日本文学研究集会会議録 = PROCEEDINGS OF INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON JAPANESE LITERATURE (ISSN:03877280)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- no.32, pp.119-131, 2009-03-31
Previously, Ōba Minako has not generally been considered a writer of the "introverted generation" (naikō no sedai). Nevertheless, in some more recent publications her work is being re-read in this context, due to the dynamic flow of thoughts linking the inner and the outer world, which enables also a way to express memories. Furuya Kenzō compares the sceneries in her texts to the inner landscapes "every person keeps somewhere in a deeply hidden place of one's mind".At a first glance, the expression of the self in Ōba's works seems to be very exposing. But how does the reader get involved with the inner world of the narrator? What writing strategies does Ōba Minako employ to cross the borderline between the inner and the outer world, and thus, to engender the dream-like atmosphere of her works?The analysis of her writing technique has found three main strategies: (1) the direct transition from the observation of the narrator's environment to the inner flow of thoughts ("stream of consciousness"); (2) the permanent blurring of past and present; (3) the interweaving representation of dream and reality.The reading of Ōba Minako's work, as proposed in the present paper focuses on the second strategy, the blurring of past and present. It argues that her way of narrating the past perfectly corresponds to the nrrrator's inner perspective. Ōba was born in 1930, and therefore belongs to the generation that experienced World War II in their youth. After her rather late debut, in 1968, the trauma that had been buried for a long time broke its way through narration.Applying narratological methods, this paper analyzes the narratives of past and present in Ōba Minako's literature.