石黑一雄日本题材小说对战后日本受害者形象的建构

Constructing Victimhood in the Postwar Japan: Kazuo Ishiguro and His Japanese Novels

细读石黑一雄的日本题材小说,可以感觉到其作品与日本重塑其战后形象的努力相吻合,而且由于他站在西方文化和日本文化的边缘,相对熟悉两边文化,深谙有效影响西方读者对日本形象认知的玄机,其作品重塑日本形象功效显著。尤其是石黑一雄在2017年获得诺贝尔文学奖之后,其小说助力日本从战争加害者重塑为战争受害者形象的作用更加不可小觑。

A perusal of Kazuo Ishiguro’s two early Japanese novels, A Pale View of Hills and An Artist of the Floating World, reveals their correspondence with postwar Japan’s competition for victimhood. Due to his familiarity with both Japanese and western cultures, the novelist has effectively turned Japan from the war perpetrator into a war victim, with the impact of this constructed victimhood rippling further after he won the Nobel Prize in 2017.