The Passage to the "South" : Reading Kenji Nakagami's Izoku(<Special Issue>Other Cultures and Japanese Literature)

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  • <南>への道 : 『異族』(中上健次)の場合(<特集><異文化>と<日本文学>)
  • 〈南〉への道--『異族』(中上健次)の場合
  • ミナミ エ ノ ミチ イゾク ナカガミケンジ ノ バアイ

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There have been produced many tales about the "South" whose plot very often consists of transgression beyond boundaries and communications with others. In a sense, those narratives reflect each historical stage of the territorial expansion or loss of the nation. Directly or indirectly, they are involved in the ideology of the nation-state and the Emperor system. In short, the "South" tales, which Ichiro Tomiyama calls the narratives of "new community," have been always articulated in the context of actual politics. In this essay, I will place Kenji Nakagami's Izoku in that very literary tradition and read it as a "South" tale.

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