메도루마 슌의 『눈 깊숙한 곳의 숲』론 ‒식민지주의적 폭력의 현재‒

Abstract

Medoruma Shun’s “ME NO OKU NO MORI”(2009) is the work which talk about while crossing the present 60 years later at the time of a incident about the incident that took place in a remote island in northern Okinawa Island in last years of Pacific War. The main motif of this novel is the rape by US soldiers and a combat violence against this. For this reason, there is a tendency to be discussed in the same horizon as the “KIBŌ” and “NIJI NO TORI” of previous work. I try the consideration at the point of view unlike the against violence. This paper is focused on the memory of the violence roused by ‘voice’ and narrative structure that talk about the truth of the incident and the life after the incident from a variety of angles by eight viewpoint people. At first I analyze appearance of the violence talked about by these viewpoint people and confirm reality of Okinawa exposed to violence of the colonialism to continue. Through experience and the memory of the violent incident that each viewpoint person talks about, I confirm the aspect to come as new violence and the influence that memory of the violence gives to language again. And I consider it what kind of directionality “ME NO OKU NO MORI” shows as a method against the violence that was non-visualized.