<i>Keetai</i> Novels as Pseudo-conversation: On the Narrative Style of the Confessing Self

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  • 擬似会話としてのケータイ小説―告白する「私」のナラティブ・スタイル―
  • ギジ カイワ ト シテ ノ ケータイ ショウセツ : コクハク スル 「 ワタクシ 」 ノ ナラティブ ・ スタイル

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<p>This paper explores authors' sense of “self” by analyzing the language and narrative style of keetai novels (novels written for mobile devices). As background, the study discusses the relationship between the keetai novel and media, its characterization within the postmodern culture of Japan, and the genre's features. Keetai novels offer a literary genre through mobile devices that facilitate, especially among young female readers, the conceptualization of media-dependent self-recognition and self-presentation. Based on analyses and interpretation of published keetai novels, this research offers insight into how authors and characters, by engaging in pseudo-conversation with themselves as well as with readers, express their selves as characters and characteristics. The paper takes the position that fundamentally keetai novel authors and readers are motivated by the desire to talk to and to be connected to someone, and argues that a keetai novel may be understood as an enactment of pseudo-conversation through which one understands one's self as characters.</p>

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