Hatsunosuke Hirabayashi's “Yoshin-chōsho”: A Trap in the Closet

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  • 平林初之輔「予審調書」論
  • ――〈密室〉に仕掛けられた「罠」――

Abstract

<p>“Yoshin-chōsho” (1926), Hatsunosuke Hirabayashi's first short story, has been interpreted in terms of the author's own concept of modern detective fiction. But the text represents more than the abstract idea of modernity; it also exposes its ideological nature through the description of the arbitrary procedures of a preliminary examination and a sanity hearing in the closet. It is violence legitimatized in the name of modernity.</p>

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  • Japanese Literature

    Japanese Literature 67 (11), 12-23, 2018-11-10

    Japanese Literature Association

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