著者

後藤田 和

出版者

広島大学大学院人間社会科学研究科

雑誌

広島大学大学院人間社会科学研究科紀要. 教育学研究 (ISSN:24360333)

巻号頁・発行日

no.1, pp.470-479, 2020-12-25

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This paper aims to reconsider the relationship between the literacy movement and the "Buraku Liberation Literature Award" by analyzing the works selected for the Buraku Liberation Literature Award. The literacy theorists in the movement for liberation of Buraku, who regarded the accumulation of practices by illiterate people as an act of reclaiming letters and an expression of human sensibility. The sociolinguist Hidenori Kadoya, on the other hand, severely criticized such literacy movements, which are based on the liberation of Buraku, for reproducing a structure of discrimination through the excessive praise of illiterate people and illiterate society and the sanctification and taboo of illiteracy. In addition, many of the essays written by people in literacy classes expressed "longing" for a literate society, "chagrin" at having been illiterate, and "joy" at having learned to write. Kadoya argues that the illiterates themselves unconsciously affirm the causes of discrimination and identify with the values of the majority. However, in the expressions of illiterates who learned to write in literacy classes, there is an expression that captures the consciousness and discriminatory structure of the illiterates. That is the poetry expressed by the students of the literacy classes, including the Buraku Liberation Literature Award. Although the main focus of the literacy movement has always been on the learning of characters, the students of the literacy classes have also used poetry as a form of expression to communicate their own selves and their history of confronting discrimination. It is also possible to read the possibility of questioning the issues of literacy and illiteracy and the discrimination involved in them in the form of poetry, as expressed by the learners of the literacy classes, which has not been the subject of research until now.