日本当代文学中的中国形象——论《新宿分子》中形塑者的“第四种态度”

The Image of China in Contemporary Japanese Literature

本文以日本当代小说《新宿分子》为例,围绕着异国形象的形塑者态度类型中的"第四种态度"进行了分析。形塑者通过将作品中的中国人吴友礼塑造为与希一、敏行等日本人境遇相似却又具有鲜明异质性的介体,而得以陈述真正的主体———"全民中产"社会崩溃后逐渐贫困化、离散化的日本"下流"群体———的故事。正是依赖吴友礼这一介体的出现,才促使日本的"下流"群体能够反思既往的自我认识,获得重新崛起的力量与信心。

With an analysis of a contemporary Japanese novel with Shinjuku as the setting,the paper analyzes the fourth attitude of the writer in his constructing a foreign country.The creation of the Chinese and Japanese characters in similar situations reveals the writer's different treatments of their fates and his understanding of the lower class emerging from the collapse of the 'whole middle-class society'.This creation could help such lower class have some reflections on themselves,their experience and lessons in order to regain confidence and strength.