@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00029065, author = {金, ヨンロン and Kim, Young-Long}, journal = {JunCture : 超域的日本文化研究}, month = {Mar}, note = {Dazai Osamu’s Shin Hamlet (New Hamlet) was published in 1941 with a preface and republished in 1947 with a postscript. The preface and postscript of Shin Hamlet require that readers reread the text multiple times. This study attempts to reproduce the potential suspicion that would be obtained by repeated readings and discuss its significance considering contemporary political contexts. Shin Hamlet begins with the words of Claudius, the king. The key phrase for him is “For Denmark.” Readers form their suspicion toward Claudius by reading the text several times in cooperation with one of the characters, Hamlet, and realize that the discourse which Claudius makes justifies his sovereignty by oppressing unfavorable rumors and stirring up a sense of an impending crisis of war against Norway by deceiving people and hiding his political desire. Suspicion obtained by repeated readings and rethinking the meaning of various discourses, including rumors which are spread in the text, not only has the possibility of deconstructing the words of Claudius but also can critically address the political situation of 1941. In 1941, a new political order was established for the continuing war with the amendment of the Peace Preservation Law, which restricted freedom of speech in order to advocate an invasive war overseas. However, readings of the work up to now have not incorporated these issues, and moreover, and as is well-known, discourse criticizing the war had barely formed in 1941. When the novel was republished after the war, Dazai again emphasized the readers’ rereading, saying in the postscript that the king was precisely the “modern evil” that had tortured us but that up to then, the text had not been read in that vein. Japan was in the process of making a new political system under the Postwar Constitution, and the Tokyo War Crimes Trials reversed the justice of the war in 1947. Shin hamlet was waiting to be read again for the new nation by forming new readers who would suspect the slogan of “New Japan” in 1947 by looking back at their path to war in the past.}, pages = {114--125}, title = {国家と戦争と疑惑 : 太宰治『新ハムレツト』論}, volume = {7}, year = {2016} }