The Groom as a Marginal Person : Education Problems in Kenji Miyazawa's "Donguri to Yamaneko"(<Special Issue>Critical Literary Education: Current School System and Possibilities of Teaching Material)

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  • "周縁人物"別當について : 宮沢賢治『どんぐりと山猫』と教育の問題(<特集>批評する文学教育-学校の現在と教材の力-)
  • "周縁人物"別当について--宮沢賢治「どんぐりと山猫」と教育の問題
  • シュウエン ジンブツ ベツ トウ ニ ツイテ ミヤザワ ケンジ ドングリ ト

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Critics have only marginally treated the Groom in "Donguri to Yamaneko." The reason is double; while they have difficulty finding what aspect of the author's real life this character reflects, these critics, in a sense, have been able to create the so-called Kenji myth by repressing this nuisance. Instead my argument here is to relocate the text in its historical context, and to point out the importance of that very Groom in making us recognize the serious educational problems of the late Taisho Era. In the figure of the Groom is epitomized the hierachical correspondence between academic career and social status. There is also the reflection of the local writer's expectancy and despair toward the Japanese school system expressed in his lecture notes and descriptions of the night school.

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