A Study on Kirino Natsuo：Focusing on Female Representation and Sociality

• Main Authors: HSU, Shiau-Ya, 徐小雅
• Other Authors: SAKAMOTO, Saori
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/24031457549176520858

碩士 === 輔仁大學 === 日本語文學系 === 97 === Natsuo Kirino's debut novel, “Kao ni furikakeru ame”(1993), is known as the forerunner of Japanese 3F mystery. After a series of female detective novels, however, Kirino tried to escape from the restriction of mystery and published “OUT” (1997, English translation as “Out”), “Yawarakana hoho”(1999) ,“Grotesque”(2003, English translation as “Grotesque”), and “Zangyakuki”(2004, English translation as “What Remains”). These works were based on the actual state and the dark side of Japanese Society, or the real event that happened in Japan. Kirino's works frequently focus on the women in Japanese society, which has been regarded as comparatively weakness group under the gender division of labor. These women’s indignation and question about the society and system are presented in Kirino’s works and created the tone of “Black Kirino World”. Though her works usually referred to real social event and earned high reputation on reflecting the reality of Japanese Society, Kirin adapted her own opinions and questions to the Japanese Society to her works with fictionality. This thesis focuses on the female representation and sociality in Kirino's works, which are both the important factors in her fictions. Chapter one focuses on “Kao ni furikakeru ame” and “Tenshi ni misuterareta yoru”, which are known as Kirino's early works and analyzes the female detective characters and their viewpoints of lifestyle and work in these fictions. Chapter two refers to Kirino's most famous novel “OUT ”, which is base on the Japanese society after the collapse of the economic bubble. In Japanese society, housewives are regard as belonging to the same social class, which is also an invisible section of the society. This chapter analyzes the social background and character of part-time-labor housewives in this work and discuss about the public's reaction to the novel. Chapter three uses “Grotesque” as the main composition that based on a real case known as “Murder of Tokyo Electric Power's Elite Lady”. As a fiction based on a real event, it involved in complex discussion on the circumstance of society. This chapter analyzes how Kirino wrote it under the influence of mass media discourse, the social background and character, and discuss about the multiple narrators in this work.