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What the “Unaected Parties” Can Do : Literature on Tokyo and the Aected Areas in the Aftermath of the Great East Japan Earthquake
「非当事者」にできること : 東日本大震災以後の文学にみる被災地と東京の関係
加島, 正浩
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KASHIMA, Masahiro
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the Great East Japan Earthquake
affected parties
violence of writing
relationship between the affected area and Tokyo
Kimura Yusuke
2017-03-17
The purpose of this article is to determine the significance of literature on the Great East Japan Earthquake written by authors who do not belong to one of the affected parties. It does so by analyzing a novel depicting the Great East Japan Earthquake, focusing on the relationship between Tokyo and the affected area. Immediately after the earthquake, when the threat of radioactive substances spreading to Tokyo loomed large, the author of this novel was able to write as one of the affected. However, later it became difficult for the author to write about the disaster as the impact of such first-hand accounts began to wear thin. This was due to consideration for the affected parties, who continued to live in Fukushima after the disaster. However, as this article argues, excessive consideration for the affected parties distracts people from realizing the true state of affairs in Japan, and when those other than the affected parties are discouraged from speaking out, it causes feelings of indifference and accelerates the “wearing thin” of the impact, ultimately forcing the affected area to take care of the problem on its own. The affected parties, who had to focus on restoring their everyday lives after the disaster, could not fight against this “wearing thin” of the impact. However, others could. Thus, writers who write about the earthquake disaster with due care are fulfilling their part.
departmental bulletin paper
名古屋大学大学院文学研究科附属「アジアの中の日本文化」研究センター
Japanese-in-Asia Cultural Research Center, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University
2017-03-17
JunCture : 超域的日本文化研究
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