Reading Eimi Yamada's Fuso-no-Kyoshitsu : Death and Regeneration of a Girl Named "Anzu"

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  • 『風葬の教室』(山田詠美)を読む : 少女「杏」の死と再生の物語
  • フウソウ ノ キョウシツ ヤマダ エイミ オ ヨム ショウジョ アンズ ノ シ

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My point in this essay is to make explicit the framework of the text - death and regeneration of a girl - in which the structure of exclusion called "bullying" is described in detail, while focusing on three major dichotomies found there; adult/child, human being/other creatures, and Eros/Thanatos. These three sets of opposite values correspond to the relation between classroom, family, and field, all of which form the world of the girl named Anzu. From this, we might interpret the text as a story of the boundary between inside and outside. This seems to be especially symbolized by human skin, which, as it were, evokes the image of the crust of a "cream puff" in the author's own particular way of representing the sense of touch.

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