Accepted Paper
Paper short abstract
The paper offers a narratological analysis of the polyphonic composition of Tawada’s trilogy with a stress on the use of many narrators with different backgrounds. I will focus on the narrative differences and offer an explication of their role.
Paper long abstract
Already from the first of its volumes, Scattered All Over the Earth, Tawada Yoko’s trilogy uses different narrators for each chapter. The narrators are people who come from various places and are with different backgrounds, gender identities, nationalities, native languages, everyday linguistic styles, and social positions. Tawada combines their narratives without introducing an omniscient narrator and in this way structures the text through insistently polyphonic narration. This polyphonic composition produces differences mot only between the narrative voices, but also in one and the same voice as the story progresses from chapter to chapter.
My paper will analyze the function of these differences in Tawada’s work and their relationship to the overall structure of the text.
| Abstract in Japanese (if needed): | 『地球に散りばめられて』に始まる多和田葉子三部作は、各章の語り手が違っている。性別、国籍、出身地、現在の居住地、母語そして日常的に使用する言語、社会的立場の違う人々が、語り手となっている。 多声的な語りによって構造化されるテクストである。すると、各章ごとでの語り手の声に差異が発生する。また、同一人物でも、章が違うと発話の形態に違いが発生してくる。 このような発話の差異が、テクストの構造化とどのように関わるのか。それを論点とする。 |
The Narrative Composition of Tawada Yoko’s Trilogy