@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:02005262, author = {岸川, あゆみ and KISHIKAWA, Ayumi}, journal = {名古屋大学人文学フォーラム, Humanities Forum, Nagoya University}, month = {Mar}, note = {This paper examines the changes in Post-War Japanese society and its interaction with East Asia in the Showa 30s [1955-1964] by analyzing the representations of bananas in the novel バナナ [Banana](1959) written by Shishi Bunroku. Bananas have been consumed widely across the continents, which shows the relations between nations in the context of the global economy and the cultural images. In Japan, bananas had been imported mostly from Taiwan before 1964 and consumed consistently since the pre-war era. Tsurumi Yoshiyuki traced, in Bananas and the Japanese, the process of how bananas were cultivated in the plantations in the Philippines owned by the United Fruit Company and shipped to Japan in the late 1970s to the early 1980s. His work demonstrated how the global economy evolved around the world and how Japan had a part in it during the period of rapid economic growth. On the other hand, despite the high consumption, it has not been explored how bananas were involved with Japanese society after the defeat in the second world war. Shishi Bunroku’s バナナ [Banana] features the environment surrounding the import of bananas as one of the symbols of the Showa 30s and plays a considerable role in the history of the cultural representations of bananas. To identify those features, the first half of this article focuses on cultural aspects of bananas such as a banana song besides reviewing the social situation about bananas, and the second half spotlights the political and economic side by paying attention to the adaptation of the actual incidents related to overseas Chinese’ import of bananas.}, pages = {1--19}, title = {獅子文六『バナナ』(1959)における社会観察 : バナナ表象が映した昭和30年代}, volume = {6}, year = {2023} }