Changes of images of girls in Toshiko Tamura's stories after her professional debut in earnest

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  • Lan Lan
    Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

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  • 田村俊子における若い女性像の変遷 : 本格的文壇デビュー後の作品を中心に
  • タムラトシコ ニ オケル ワカイ ジョセイゾウ ノ ヘンセン ホンカクテキ ブンダン デビュー ゴ ノ サクヒン オ チュウシン ニ

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Toshiko Tamura's stories present various types of pressures to contemporary girls under feudalistic and patriarchal times in Japan. This paper analyses the typical images of these girls from different generations, to determine how they, as they grow older, were gradually conscious of women's right and the struggle to realize their dreams. In her novels, Toshiko portrayed the young girls, in Rikon (Separation of spirit) and Kuko no mi no yuwaku (Temptation of boxthorns), not knowing how to resist the old social custom, but, in Akirame (Resignation), the girls were portrayed as old enough to receive education at university and knew their rights to go for what they want in life.

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  • Comparatio

    Comparatio 14 37-46, 2010-12-20

    Society of Comparative Cultural Studies, Graduate School of Social and Cultural Studies, Kyushu University

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