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2018 | 8 | 97-106

Article title

A Bear Is Watching a Man in Tawada Yoko’s Yuki no renshusei

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JA
熊は人間を見ている − 多和田葉子『雪の練習生』

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JA
近年アニマル・スタディーズが台頭し、主観性という平等権の究極の形が問われるようになった。 芸術と文学は科学者にとって不可能なことを可能にするが、多和田は人間を熊の目で見ることに挑み、そのヒーローたちに主観性と論理的思考を与えた。そのおかげで彼らは人間に対して審判を下すことができるのである。 人間の残酷さが批判され、それらが事実上多かれ少なかれ減少している今日においてもなお、動物達にとって人間は理解できないものだと人々は信じている。多和田は、それは私達の大きな誤りで、私達は彼らに私達自身の多くのことを教えてもらえると述べているのである。
EN
Nowadays, as animal studies are being developed, there arises a question of the supreme form of equality in rights, that is subjectivity, in the case of animals. Since art and literature make possible what is impossible for scholars, Tawada is trying to look at human beings with the bear’s eye, granting her heroes subjectivity and the capacity for rational thought; therefore, they are able to judged human beings. Today, when men’s cruelty is criticized and more or less effectively reduced it, but the human being still believes that he is impenetrable for the animals. Tawada says: That is our great fault. We can learn a lot about ourselves from them.

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8

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97-106

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published
2018

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References

  • Kafka, Franz 1917. A Report to an Academy. Translated by Tania and James Stern. The Kafka Project by Mauro Nervi. Available at: http://www.ka_a.org/index.php?aid=161 [Accessed 29 October 2015].
  • Tawada Yoko 2011. Yuki no renshusei [the trainees of snow] (English title: Memoirs of a Polar Bear). Tokyo: Shinchosha.
  • Weil, Kari 2010. “A Report on the Animal Turn”, Differences: a Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies. Durham: Duke University Press. Available at: http://differences.dukejournals.org/content/21/2/1.full.pdf+html. [Accessed 29 October 2015].
  • Knut (polar bear). Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_(polar_bear) [Accessed 30 October 2015].

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Publication order reference

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Biblioteka Nauki
1597297

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bwmeta1.element.ojs-issn-2084-2147-year-2018-issue-8-article-c66fa817-a808-3fe6-bd51-520338a23d05
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