Critical Stance in Kenji Miyazawa's Juvenile Tales : Reading "Neko no Jimusho"(<Special Issue>Critical Literary Education: Current School System and Possibilities of Teaching Material)

Ushiyama Megumi

doi:10.20620/nihonbungaku.44.8_53

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宮沢賢治の童話に見られる批評性 : 「猫の事務所」の読みを通して(<特集>批評する文学教育-学校の現在と教材の力-)
宮沢賢治の童話に見られる批評性--「猫の事務所」の読みを通して
ミヤザワケンジノドウワニミラレルヒヒョウセイネコノジムショ

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"Neko no Jimusho" allegorically depicts the systematic bullying of bureaucracy. We might compare this bullying to that daily committed in school today. We find reality in these characters, the bullying cats and the bullied "Kama-neko" cats, so poignantly that we cannot but perceive our own real world in this fictional space. So we should focus upon how this problem is dealt with in the tale. What is the meaning, for example, of the lion as a deus ex machina, who solves it at one blow? From this viewpoint, I will consider the author's critical stance.

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Japanese Literature

Japanese Literature 44 (8), 53-62, 1995

Japanese Literature Association