일본 대중소설의 전후점령기 표상- 시시 분로쿠가 그리는 패전 정서와 피점령 심리를 중심으로

Abstract

This paper considered emotion of defeat and occupied psychology of Japanese people described in Shishi Bunroku’s novels during the occupation period focusing on the 『Tenya Wanya』. The peace movement in the novel reflects critical public opinion on the imperialism and anti-war sentiment taking the defeat as an opportunity. The criticism of imperialism in the novel appears to be introspection of Japan itself, but implicitly, it sometimes heads toward the past of the Western powers, the original empires. And proposal for the ‘independence of Shikoku’ is considered psychology of escape from the defeated Japan rather than voluntary awakening of the ‘state’ as an imagined community. Through the potential victim mentality in the formation of postwar society that repeats mention of air-raid and atomic bomb and emphasizes confusion, it is also found that Shishi Bunroku’s novels during the occupation period are the expression of complex emotions toward hostile country of the ‘past’ and occupied psychology toward occupier of the ‘present’. Accordingly, attachment to Japanese folklore and non-western values described in the novel is considered a wish for restoration of national identity suppressed by itself and others.