"Silent Struggle":Anti-War Narrative of Hori Tatsuo's Obasute
Obasute is a short story adapted by Hori Tatsuo based on Sugawara no Takasue no Musume's The Sarashina Diary during the Japanese War of Aggression against China.Hori Tatsuo takes the heroine as the epitome of the time to insinuate that becoming the tool during the aggressive war may bring a tragic fate to Japanese women through the plot of the heroine's disillusionment with stories and love.Under the background of Japan's war of aggression,Obasute,in the form of"revisionary re-writing",implies that Japanese women and even Japanese people who are bewitched and utilized by Japanese emperor will eventually become victims of the war.Hori Tatsuo's series of novels adapted from Japanese Dynasty Literature created under the trend of"classical regression"in wartime has also become his way to fight against the literary and political circles that wantonly incite the war.
Hori TatsuoObasuteanti-war narrativerevisionary re-writing
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