日系三世のアイデンティティとセクシュアリティ : 日系詩人デヴィッド・ムラの場合

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• David Mura, who is a poet and the third generation of Japanese Americans, published several essays including Turning Japanese and Where the Body Meets Memory. In these books, he refers to some issues in his life: (1) his identity as a Japanese American, (2) the gap between him (sansei) and his father (nisei), (3) Japanese Americans' sexuaIity in white American society, and (4) the prospect of Japanese American Literature.　(1) Mura was born and raised in Jewish society in Chicago. From childhood through adolescence he averted anything Japanese to assimiIate into white American society. Yet he could not help but being aware that he was of Japanese ancestry and then he had suffered from insecurity of identity. It was, however, crucial to secure his identity that he had visited Japan in 1986 as a foreign student. He said, ”Japan allowed me to see myseIf, America, and the world from a perspective that was not white American.”　(2) The gap betWeen issei and nisei is well-known, but there is a gap between nisei and sansei, too. The conflict between Mura and his father is characteristic of Japanese Americans. Nisei, most of whom experienced internment camps during WorId War II, seldom speak about their past. Their emasculated reticence has disappointed and irritated sansei children. Hence the great gap between nisei and sansei.　(3) Mura's sexuality is obsessed with racism. His standard of beauty is white, since he lives in white American society, and he marries a white +oman. But he keeps affairs with other women after his marriage, because his seemingly happy marriage with a white woman leads to his acceptance of racism. He must pretend to be not quite satisfied with his marrige to resist racism.　(4) In Japanese American Literature, which is generally given to being modest,decent, pathetic and sorrowful, Mura's writings are exceptional. He blatantly speaks about sexual topics and confesses his own shameful past. He laments that there is no aggressive authors like Genet and Burroughs in Japanese American literature. He might be caIIed the precursor to beget a new tide in Japanese American Literature.　

• 山形大学の論文
• 2004-02-16

著者

• 佐藤 清人

  山形大学人文学部

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