イチローの回復された愛国心:ジョン・オカダの『ノー・ノー・ボーイ』試論

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• During World War II ,over 120,000 Japanese Americans were unjustly incarcerated in relocation camps, where two questions were designed to test their loyalty and willingness to serve in the armed forces. Those who either refused to answer the questions or answered in the negative were called ”no-no boy”. Ichiro Yamada, the protagonist of John Okada's No-No Boy, was one of them.　My first aim in this paper is to investigate and identify the real motivation that caused Ichiro to become ”no-no boy”. Ichiro's mother, who is a chauvinist devoted to Japan, has been thought to be most influential in his decision. But Ichiro, who was born in America and loved America, did not share his mother's enthusiasm for Japan. Ichiro lost his faith and trust in America because the U.S.government violated the Constitution.　The second subject of mine is to trace Ichiro's struggling life into the novel. The loyalty questions divide Nisei into two groups: no-no boys and veterans who served in the armed to show their faith in the country. Ichiro, as one of no-no boys, feels inferiority to veterans. But veterans could not trust in post-war America because of its lasting racism. In the course of the novel, Ichiro comes to feel sympathy with veterans, for he becomes aware that they have lost their faith in America, too. The realization that there are no differences between no-no boys and veterans restores Ichiro to the status of Japanese American in the pre-war period.　

• 山形大学の論文
• 2002-02-15

著者

• 佐藤 清人

  山形大学人文学部

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