Fiction, Language, and Cultural Negotiations : Kenji Nakagami's Short Story "Fukikomori"

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  • 媒介者の使命 : 中上健次『熊野集』「葺き籠り」
  • バイカイシャ ノ シメイ ナカ ガミケンジ クマノシュウ フキ コモリ

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In "Fukikomori," one of the short stories in Kumano-shu, Kenji Nakagami thoroughly explores the theme of cultural negotiations. In the midst of amazing economic growth in postwar Japan, not only in the author's hometown but all over the country, most of the tenement areas were swept away and the residents, largely of the discriminated classes, evicted out of them. Of course, such social arrangement had been made not for any egalitarian purpose but as part of reorganization for another form of hierarchy under the new regime. But in "Fukikomori" Nakagami puts stress on negotiations which inevitably occur between the ruling and the ruled groups and tries to find a possibility of resistance against omnipresent power in such cultural interactions.

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