The "rascal" Who Rebelled Against The "order"

Ango Sakaguchi is one of most distinctive Japanese writers after WWII.There are numerous analyses of Sakaguchi s works in both China and Japan.However,some problems still exist and both research directions and research methods need great improvements.This paper is a general study of Ango Sakaguchi postwar literature and it aims to adopt the approach of macro and micro "close reading".It focuses on social context,grasps narrative strategies,analyses words and sentences,and studies how Sakaguchi combines contents and artistic means in his postwar literature.The framework of this paper is formed based on the considerations above.The introduction briefly reviews Ango Sakaguchi s life experiences and his literary writing.It reviews current situations of Ango Sakaguchi s literature in China and Japan and it further proposes research approaches and methods.The first chapter exposits Ango Sakaguchi s novels about wars by using space theory,feminism,narratology and stylistics.It analyses three texts including Idiot,Women and the War and its companionThe Woman Who Washes Loincloth for Ao-Oni.Idiot encodes the space by using metaphors and symbols.Under the control of political power,it sketches out a "visual space" which attempts to abduct everyone in the space by using its own "morality".However,this "morality" is completely invalidated by the author’s sarcastic tones and by the characters who concentrate on making profits.The two heterogeneous lunatics and idiots having centrifugal force create an invisible" resistance space to question and to challenge the seemingly strict wartime order.War and a Woman and its companion interpret wars through women ’s unique perspectives.Though there is no grand narration about wars,it approaches the war though women and though the fates of men,women and the elderly in women ’s eyes.It reflects that wars bring extreme physical and psychological experience to humans.At the same time,it achieves deep deconstruction of wars in the subtext through seemingly casual perspective conversion.The Woman who Washes Loincloth for Ao-Oni presents a narrative "attitude"in a challenge style.It’s from the ingenious gender perspective,and it cracks down all the lies imposed on women by the Japanese government and spearheads towards its strongly maintained "orders".The three texts pose great doubts and challenges towards "order"under the background of wars through the story of three marginalized females and two common elements including "sex " and labor".The second chapter analyzes Ango Sakaguchi s historical writings by using new historical theory,narratology and stylistics.It investigates how Sakaguchi poses one mystery after another in his unique way when facing the established history.Ango’s Views on History,which stands between historical novels and essays,reinterprets individual experience of the so-called hero" or idol",and questions the deep-imbedded blindness among Japanese.The essay Ango ’s New Japanese Geography provides a new"History-Place-Text model of interpretation.What Ango Sakaguchi wants to disrupt in these series of works include myths as well as the logic of power behind the myth and history.The third chapter concerns Ango Sakaguchi s Imitation of Folklore type of work.Based on the theoretical framework of narratology and stylistics,which are combined with prototype theory,it explores how to use the style of "folklore" to achieve perfect unity of form and content.Under the Blooming Cherry Blossom adopts the traditional narrative way of "storyteller",it expresses thinking about the dilemma between the traditional and the modern by ingenious arrangements of space,time and topography and through the subversive use of the Sakura" image,making it a valuable supplement to Ango Sakaguchi s usual position of breaking the order".As for Princess Yechang and A Male Named Ernan,the figure in the "Legend" becomes the narrator,making the way of narration both traditional and fresh.Ango Sakaguchi puts up a new stage and sings an old but interesting "opposing opera" by pulling out the figure prototypes in the two stories.Ango Sakaguchi’s explorations of folk literature and his reflections on grand narration again shows his firm determination to "break the order".The fourth chapter focuses on the pre-war essay Japanese Culture in My Eyes,the most famous post-war Degeneration Theory,and Continued Degeneration Theory.It summarizes changes in Sakaguchi’s thoughts and way of narration from prewar to postwar period by examining the inheritance and changes of ideas and artistic means in these three works.Sakaguchi’s thoughts after the war definitely inherit that before the war,however,he gained deep understanding of the public spirit after he had experienced the war so as to make further criticism,which could not be seen in essays before the war.The conclusion highlights Ango Sakaguchi again attitude against the "order" and summarize narrative strategy and stylistic features in his postwar writings.Ango Sakaguchi forms his unique construction based on his need for thoughtful expressions and to some extent it deviates from the traditional creative specification.In the"Deviation",Ango Sakaguchi found his creative freedom and completed his confrontation with the "order".Finally,the paper gives a brief explanation of the research directions in the future.