Author(s)

Haijing Mu

Corresponding Author

Haijing Mu

ABSTRACT

As a Japanese female writer, Sawako Ariyoshi enjoyed a worldwide reputation. She paid attention to social problems and cared about people's sufferings. Her works truly reflect many social problems in Japan after the war. The Complex Contamination, one of her representative works, has been hailed as the Silent Spring in Japanese. Based on the conscience of writer, and a long and extensive investigation, Sawako Ariyoshi had recorded the public hazards and food safety problems prevailing in Japan at that time in detail, accused the survival crisis faced by nature and people, and proposed simple and feasible solutions. By re-reading the The Complex Contamination from dual perspectives of nature and women and analyzing the two types of female characters in the work, this paper interprets Sawako Ariyoshi’s concern for natural ecology, environmental pollution and recognition of the co-prosperity relationship between women and nature

KEYWORDS

Sawako Ariyoshi, The Complex Contamination, ecofeminism