異形の人びと,他者性の魔力 : Hiromi Goto, Hopeful Monstersをめぐって(アメリカ文学系,英文学科創設70周年記念論文集)

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• Hiromi Goto is a Japanese Canadian writer who has achieved "a departure from historical 'fact' into the realm of contemporary folk legend," as she declared in acknowledgements of her first novel, Chorus of Mushrooms. Her works are no longer the products of autobiographic ethnic voice but present-day myths and folk tales retold from traditional ones. Very often her personae are inflicted some deformity, which represents various otherness that Goto foregrounds in her works. Nevertheless those deformed characters are not just all woe and curse but blessing and privilege at the same time. This very equivocality bestows on them a great possibility for future transformation of both themselves and the whole community. They are "hopeful monsters," as the title of her latest work goes. Using insights from anthropology and folkloristics, this article tries to examine the nature and significance of such hopeful monsters, articulating their magical power of alien-ness.

• 関西学院大学の論文
• 2005-03-15

著者

• 山口 知子

  関西学院大学文学部

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