@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00029205, author = {釋, 七月子 and Shaku, Natsuko}, journal = {JunCture : 超域的日本文化研究}, month = {Mar}, note = {The 18th City of Kitakyushu Autobiography Literature Award Grand Prize winner My Baby was described as "a work that combines the experiences of the author and her interviewee." My Baby is about a woman who was gang-raped by Soviet soldiers and became pregnant at a concentration camp in Manchuria. The author creates the main character, Chiyo Takahashi, by overlapping part of her own life with part of the interviewee's life. This is largely a work of fiction, a fact which divided the judges on the Kitakyushu panel equally. For these reasons, it is an extraordinary piece of writing. Oftentimes, female victims keep secret what they have suffered from war. So, rather than a victim telling her story directly, she conveys it to an author who is then able to write about the horrible facts while keeping the victim's identity a secret. So long as careful attention is paid to avoid identifying the victim, the theme of the work can be sufficiently conveyed by using the conventional interview method. But what is the reason the author decided to combine her own experience with her interviewee's experience in My Baby? It could be a subtext to the work: reconciliation between the author and her father. For this reason, the author could not limit herself to writing only about the horrible war experience that female victims have suffered by using the interview method. My Baby is a unique example of an autobiography. Even though the work is categorized as an "autobiography for record," attempting to capture the past events and experiences as accurately as possible, it does contain some fiction. This is because the nature of an autobiographical memory works to alter the past from one's present point of view.}, pages = {102--112}, title = {自分史における「虚構」 : 鈴木政子『わたしの赤ちゃん』を中心に}, volume = {4}, year = {2013} }