ẢNH HƯỞNG CỦA VĂN HOÁ, VĂN HỌC SHOUJO (少女) ĐỐI VỚI KAWABATA YASUNARI - TRƯỜNG HỢP TIỂU THUYẾT “ĐẸP VÀ BUỒN”

Abstract

In the 1920s, along with the development of popular culture and popular literature of the Taisho democratic period (1912-1926), there appeared a cultural movement of schoolgirl, called Shoujo bunka (少女文化). Although “shoujo bunka” was considered a sub-lineage, its appearance in society served as a way to relieve pressure from the mainstream culture with male dominance in Japanese society in the early twentieth century. The birth of the shoujo novel (shoujo sosetsu 少女小說) set the stage for the formation of lesbian literature in modern Japanese literature. From 1930s to 1940s, Kawabata Yasunari participated in the magazine Shoujo no tomo (少女の友) and was influenced by shoujo literary. He wrote two novels on the subject of lesbians, “The Girls' Harbor” (Otome no minato 乙女の港, 1937) and Beauty and sadness (Utsukushisa to kanashimi to 美しさと哀しみと, 1964). The article aims to explore the relationship and influence of the Shoujo cultural and literary movement on Kawabata Yasunari’s writing in general, and the case of the novel Beauty and sadness in particular, examining and pointing out the origin of the “artistic materials” that Kawabata learned and inherited from the Shoujo culture and literature of the early 20th century. From there, analyze Kawabata’s creations and contributions from the aspects of storytelling art and ideology of the novel Beauty and sadness, consider the position and value of this novel in the 20th century Japanese lesbian literature.