Ayukawa Nobuo's “Byoinsen Nisshi” and the Possibilities of the Modern Subject

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  • 鮎川信夫〈病院船日誌〉と主体のゆくえ
  • アユガワ ノブオ 〈 ビョウインセン ニッシ 〉 ト シュタイ ノ ユクエ

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<p>Ayukawa Nobuo's serial poems about the hospital ships, called “Byoinsen Nisshi (The hospital ship's journal),” have been regarded as attempts at expressing of his own war experience in linguistic forms. However, the poet often commented on the limits and uncertainties of such narrations of war experience from the point of view of a soldier. The concept of the serial poems should be reconsidered in light of such recognition of the limits of personal representations.</p><p>Through the analysis of six poems included in “Byoinsen Nisshi,” this essay illustrates how the work thematizes the difficult relationship between the war experience and the subject of its narration, instead of dealing with the war experience itself. It also revises the generally accepted image of Ayukawa as a poet who simply resisted the weathering of the memory, and reexamines the scope of his vision as a thinker. The reading would lead to revisionary explorations of the basic assumptions and the limits of the concept of the modern subject and of the poet's significance in the history of thought.</p>

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