吉田修一の『路』における台湾–ジェンダーと歴史を通して読む–

吉田修一《路》中的台灣──以性別與歷史來閱讀（Taiwan in Yoshida Shuichi’s Road: A Reading on gender and history）

本論文的探討對像是吉田修一以台灣為舞臺的長篇小說《路》，目的為指出本作的問題點。總的來說，在日本有著問題的日本人，在台灣解決該問題，是本篇小說的情節，而台灣則是日本人想像中的「療癒之地」。本論文將把這點視為「問題」，以反論書評、過去研究為起點，進行解讀本品中的歷史觀點以及性別規範。透過這個步驟，可以得到三點結論：其一，本作敘述的現在與未來，欠缺正視過去支配歷史的角度；其二，極可能是作家刻意之舉，作品中可見以男女關係為基調對比台灣日本兩國之間的關係；其三，上述觀點繼承自日治時代。 This paper aims to scrutinize the issues contained in Yoshida Shuichi’s full-length novel Road, a story set in Taiwan. Roughly speaking, this novel depicts Japanese people’s journey to Taiwan where they solve the troubles that they faced in Japan. In this novel, as a problematic, Taiwan is imagined to be a ＂land of healing＂for Japanese people. Reading against the book reviews and past literature regarding this novel, this paper deciphers the attitude to history and the gender norms within the novel. As a result, we can observe the following problems: the novel tells/addresses present and future without sincerely facing Japan’s dominance over Taiwan in the past; in addition, based a gendered relationship, it perhaps deliberately positions Taiwan as a partner of Japan, which reflects a continuation of the power relation in the colonial era.