War and Reports : Toson Shimazaki, France-dayori

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  • 戦争と証言 : 島崎藤村『仏蘭西だより』
  • センソウ ト ショウゲン シマザキ トウソン フランス ダヨリ

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In this essay, I will not discuss Toson Shimazaki's relation to France by the usual method of comparative literature because I don't think it productive any more. Instead I will make clear how his reports from France during World War I were integrated and modified into the public discourses in Japan. I put his correspondences in the context of the Japanese mass media, especially press reports of the war. The point is to understand how the public images of the war were formed through the mass media and how Toson's discourses were involved in such image-making. Even now "realities" are linguistically produced. So, I believe, it is not only a past question but also an actual one.

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