@article{ART002411537},
author={HONG JINHEE},
title={The War in the eyes of a boy of the Burn-mark generation ─Focusing on “Shiiku” by Kenzaburo Oe─},
journal={Journal of Japanese Culture},
issn={1226-3605},
year={2018},
number={79},
pages={243-259},
doi={10.21481/jbunka..79.201811.243}
TY - JOUR
AU - HONG JINHEE
TI - The War in the eyes of a boy of the Burn-mark generation ─Focusing on “Shiiku” by Kenzaburo Oe─
JO - Journal of Japanese Culture
PY - 2018
VL - null
IS - 79
PB - The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea (Jcak)
SP - 243
EP - 259
SN - 1226-3605
AB - “Shiiku”(1958) by Kenzaburo Oe(1935∼) won the Akutagawa Prize, a major literary award. The story has a valley village in the background and a setting at around the end of World War II. The main character and narrator is a boy, who was not directly influenced by the war and spent his days being bored. However, one day, an enemy fighter made a forced landing on the mountain, and its black soldier was caught as a prisoner by the adults in the village.
The boy initially felt embarrassed about the attitude of his father toward the black soldier, who considered him a beast, but he gradually began to have a human relationship with him through living together. However, when escorting the black soldier to town, the relationship with him broke, and the boy’s father slaughtered black soldier with a hatchet.
“Shiiku” has been recognized as having a mythical structure that is symbolics, figurative, and stylistic. However, the perceptions of the Burn-mark generations who was raised during the war have been overlooked, despite it being a War Novel. Nevertheless the change in the boy’s perspective on the black soldier, i.e., “beast ⇒ livestock ⇒ friend ⇒ family ⇒ beast ⇒ enemy”, and the smell of a corpse shows the Burn-mark generation’s confusions and intense memories of the war.
KW - Kenzaburo Oe;Shiiku;Burn-mark generations;war;Black soldier;beast
DO - 10.21481/jbunka..79.201811.243
ER -
HONG JINHEE. (2018). The War in the eyes of a boy of the Burn-mark generation ─Focusing on “Shiiku” by Kenzaburo Oe─. Journal of Japanese Culture, 79, 243-259.
HONG JINHEE. 2018, "The War in the eyes of a boy of the Burn-mark generation ─Focusing on “Shiiku” by Kenzaburo Oe─", Journal of Japanese Culture, no.79, pp.243-259. Available from: doi:10.21481/jbunka..79.201811.243
HONG JINHEE "The War in the eyes of a boy of the Burn-mark generation ─Focusing on “Shiiku” by Kenzaburo Oe─" Journal of Japanese Culture 79 pp.243-259 (2018) : 243.
HONG JINHEE. The War in the eyes of a boy of the Burn-mark generation ─Focusing on “Shiiku” by Kenzaburo Oe─. 2018; 79 : 243-259. Available from: doi:10.21481/jbunka..79.201811.243
HONG JINHEE. "The War in the eyes of a boy of the Burn-mark generation ─Focusing on “Shiiku” by Kenzaburo Oe─" Journal of Japanese Culture no.79(2018) : 243-259.doi: 10.21481/jbunka..79.201811.243
HONG JINHEE. The War in the eyes of a boy of the Burn-mark generation ─Focusing on “Shiiku” by Kenzaburo Oe─. Journal of Japanese Culture, 79, 243-259. doi: 10.21481/jbunka..79.201811.243
HONG JINHEE. The War in the eyes of a boy of the Burn-mark generation ─Focusing on “Shiiku” by Kenzaburo Oe─. Journal of Japanese Culture. 2018; 79 243-259. doi: 10.21481/jbunka..79.201811.243
HONG JINHEE. The War in the eyes of a boy of the Burn-mark generation ─Focusing on “Shiiku” by Kenzaburo Oe─. 2018; 79 : 243-259. Available from: doi:10.21481/jbunka..79.201811.243
HONG JINHEE. "The War in the eyes of a boy of the Burn-mark generation ─Focusing on “Shiiku” by Kenzaburo Oe─" Journal of Japanese Culture no.79(2018) : 243-259.doi: 10.21481/jbunka..79.201811.243
