Author(s)

Lishi Huang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Languages, Lingnan Normal University, Zhanjiang, Guangdong, China

Corresponding Author

Lishi Huang

ABSTRACT

Fumiko Yokota's Beautiful Elegy describes the daily life of the White émigré, Chinese and Japanese living in the "Manchukuo" from the perspective of women. In 1942, it was collected in the book "Manchukuo National Creation Anthology" by Yasunari Kawabata. In the "Manchukuo" era when thoughts and speech were strictly controlled, Fumiko Yokota followed the realistic, humanitarian and feminist creative techniques in the Japanese period. This is very rare in the creation tide of "national policy literature" advocating the founding myth and national harmony at that time. In this paper, I will mainly analyze the relationship among White émigré, Chinese and Japanese in Beautiful Elegy, and the living conditions of the three nationalities. On this basis, we can understand the Fumiko Yokota's creation intention, and explore the ethnic opposition and estrangement revealed by Fumiko Yokota.

KEYWORDS

Fumiko Yokota, Beautiful Elegy Manchukuo, National harmony, National estrangement

CITE THIS PAPER

Lishi Huang, The Representation of "National Harmony" in Yokota's Works: Take "a Beautiful Elegy" as an Example. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2022) Vol. 4: 90-96. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2022.040814.

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