Japanese Literature in the 20th Century and Dalian

ZHANG, Yu

doi:2022.15.1.248

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Border Crossings: The Journal of Japanese-Language Literature Studies 2022;15(1): 248-250.
doi: https://doi.org/10.22628/bcjjl.2022.15.1.248

Japanese Literature in the 20th Century and Dalian

Yu ZHANG

Lecturer, The School of Foreign Studies of Chang’an University

柴紅梅著二十世紀の日本文学と大連 (人民出版社、2015)

張玉

長安大学外国語学院講師。専門は中日比較文学

Correspondence Yu ZHANG ,Email: zhangyu791126@126.com

Published online: 30 December 2022.

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ABSTRACT

This book focuses on the relationship between the Japanese colony of Dalian and Japanese literature in the 20th century. In the urban space of Dalian, the relationship between Japanese writers’ colonial experience and literary creation is revealed. The author discusses Japanese literature in Dalian by dividing it into two eras：the prewar-war period and the postwar one up until today. Dalian has become a city that is both exotic and modern at the same time, having undergone grandiose urban planning undertaken by the Soviet Union and redevelopment on the part of Japan. Meanwhile, behind such prosperity, the Chinese have lived a life of poverty and misery. Dalian, a modern city where prosperity and poverty are cheek by jowl, is an urban space in which Japanese writers created literature, and this book positions this Japanese work in the field of colonial literature.

Keywords: Dalian, Colonial Literature, Japanese Literature, Urban Space

キ―ワ―ド: 大連, 植民地文学, 日本文学, 都市空間