Those Who Talk of Roads : Kanoko Okamoto's Tokai Do Gojusantsugi (Fifty-Three Stations on Tokai Road)(<Special Issues>"Critical" Gaze: Following the Tracks of the "Other" and the "Imperial System" in Modern Literature)

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  • 街道を語る人々 : 岡本かの子『東海道五十三次』(<特集><批評>の視線-近代文学における<他者>と<天皇制>を手がかりに-)
  • 街道を語る人々--岡本かの子「東海道五十三次」
  • カイドウ オ カタル ヒトビト オカモト カノコ トウカイドウ ゴジュウサンツギ

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Abstract

After the outbreak of the Japan-China war, Kanoko Okamoto expressed her readiness to accept the crisis of the war in her personal sketches and essays. Some of the descriptions in her short story, Tokai Do Gojusantsugi certainly reflected the historical condition. Nevertheless, the story presented the rejection of being integrated into the whole and the yearning to drift freely. In short, it fleshed out the theme unique to Kanoko Okamoto. This paper proposes to contemplate the significance of "roads," and observe Kanoko's inclination to relate herself to the "veins of others," the inclination preserved throughout her novels.

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