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A New Approach To Yamada Eimi’s Novels - Focusing On Healing Perspective -

  • Journal of Japanese Culture
  • 2019, (80), pp.239-255
  • DOI : 10.21481/jbunka..80.201902.239
  • Publisher : The Japanese Culture Association Of Korea (Jcak)
  • Research Area : Humanities > Japanese Language and Literature
  • Received : December 30, 2018
  • Accepted : February 1, 2019
  • Published : February 28, 2019

Youmee Park 1

1충남대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to analyze the discourses of healing and revitalization in the novels of Yamada Eimi (known in the West as “Amy Yamada”) and position her work as earthquake disaster literature. The novels “Pay Day!” and “Me Who Might Die Tomorrow, And You Guys”, were published two years after the 9/11 and 3/11 incidents, but do not draw directly on these or other disasters. Instead, they are both stories about the regeneration of families after collapsing from the loss of a loved one, in which problems of life and death caused by the Great Earthquake emerge as the most important themes. Therefore, her work does not focus on major political events or disasters, but instead tries to share individual stories closely tied to traumatic events to provide a kind of healing for those who have survived such events. Although Yamada Eimi is a female author writing expressing contemporary Japan, her evaluation that is covered with scandalous topics tends to shake. As her novels continuously explore the Japanese way of life and contain messages of revival, in this paper, I will argue that it is possible to reclarify the value of Yamada Eimi’s work by repositioning it as “healing literature.”

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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