| 英文摘要 |
In the grand masculine narrative framework of Japan’s militarist regime during World War II, young males, as soldiers, tended to follow their national leader’s orders and ideologies, while young girls, lacking the capabilities to fight, were politically marginalized and excluded from the discourse of the nation and the empire. However, after the war ended in the Pacific, as the East Asian societies sought to move beyond the shadows of war and created a sense of hope for the future, the wartime memories of young girls began to be revisited. Although seemingly absent from war, these female characters, because they were not confined by the fascist masculine narrative of wartime, had the ability to deconstruct the total war mobilization system. By utilizing young girls’wartime thoughts through post-war novels, their subtle resistance to the legitimacy of war during it became evident, serving as a counter-narrative to militaristic ideologies and placing them at the forefront of post-war anti-war thought. This paper compares two post-war novels written in Japanese: Taiwanese author Chen Hui-Chen's The Wandering Lamb (1946) and Okinawan author Ishino Keiichirо̄'s The Tower of the Himeyuri Students (1949). Both works, published in close succession, focused on girls from the Empire’s southern region, Taiwan and Okinawa, and explored their thoughts about Japan’s involvement in the war, the wartime restrictions and the impending arrival of American forces. This paper examines how both texts invoke the war memories of these girls to create a distinct wartime perspective, ultimately deconstructing the previous war narrative and advocating against war. |