Meeting Her Needs : The Ethics of Care and the Ethics of Reading in Seiko Tanabe's Joze To Tora To Sakanatachi

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  • ニーズのゆくえ : 田辺聖子「ジョゼと虎と魚たち」をめぐるケアの倫理/読みの倫理
  • ニーズ ノ ユクエ : タナベ セイコ 「 ジョゼ ト トラ ト サカナ タチ 」 オ メグル ケア ノ リンリ/ヨミ ノ リンリ

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I have reexamined Tanabe Seiko's Joze To Tora To Sakanatachi (Jose, the Tiger and the Fish) and the needs of its physically handicapped female protagonist from the points of view of disability studies and gender. In my reexamination, I have argued that Jose's happiness, which proves to be the equivalent of death at the end, is symbolic of the barriers presented in the face of her and other disabled women's needs during the 1980s. Moreover, I propose that such an interpretation should provide a clue to a new kind of care ethic and reading ethic that goes against modern liberalism, and have attempted to make a connection between the study of symbolic analysis of literary texts and the care ethic.

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