메도루마 슌(目取真俊)의 『무지개 새(虹の鳥)』론 - 소설 속 폭력에 대한 재고찰 -

Abstract

In this paper, I will take up　Medoruma Shun’s “Rainbow Bird[NIJINOTORI]” and reconsider the violence in the novel. Regarding “Rainbow Bird[NIJINOTORI]” many papers have been focused on the subject side where violence is invoked. These papers share recognition in it having been the times when it is impossible that sacrifice of Okinawa becomes the politics by mechanism of the politics. And asked a meaning of the violence that chief characters used at the present when it was the times of the politicalization impossibility and asked whether it could be counter violence to the United States. I will examine the aspect of violence operating inside Okinawa society through a person called Katsuya who is not in the side using violence but in the middle of violent situations. Katsuya is a person who represents the reality of Okinawa after the Okinawa war. Distorted consciousness is shown to Katsuya living in the violence of visible U.S. forces and a bottom of the non-visible economic violence structure. He has conflicting emotions of extreme fear and longing for violence, and the impulse to violence works on a daily basis. Such Katsuya can be said to be a colonial body by the colonialism violence to continue. Violence in novels can also be said to be ‘premonition of violence’ by colonial body which embodies colonialism. “Rainbow Bird[NIJINOTORI]” can not be read only as Okinawa's counter violence against US military violence. “Rainbow Bird[NIJINOTORI]” is a work that is asking what formations the violence within the Okinawa society was formed rather than drawing a counter violence by literary imagination.