Research On Nagai Kaf?'s Western Cultural Experience Of "Stories" Writing

Stories of America and Stories of France,written by Nagai Kaf?,the famous author of modern literature in Japan,convey his cultural experience towards American culture,French culture and whole western culture.Nagai Kaf? shows his admire to American urban civilization,his fear to its powerful dissident force in American culture.When it comes to French culture,Nagai Kaf? regard France as his idealized“Utopian” national image,but finally lost this “Utopia”.As an individual,Nagai Kaf?is marginalized both in “the Other” culture(American culture)and in “Self” culture(Japanese culture).The two opposite female image in Stories of America and Stories of France can be concluded in “Angel” and “Lamia”.In a word,the whole overseas experience of Nagai Kaf? is a contact,communication and fusion attempt between Japanese culture and western culture.Unfortunately,it ends in failure.Though the research on Nagai Kaf?'s western cultural experience in Stories,his cultural experience can establish its relations with historical environment and national psychology.In the research on historical environment,European culture influenced Japanese culture in a long-term period,for the results of communication tradition between Japan and Europe,and the opening of European route.For American culture,its“invaders” identity and its long-time conflict with Japanese culture makes the two cultures' communication difficult.In the research on Japanese national psychology,the Japanese hold a “Japanese world order view” and Bushido,the tradition spirit of Japanese national,these two national traditions make the “Two sides of strong and weak” become the creed of Japanese.Fukusawa Yukichi,the famous enlightenment thinker,his theory of civilization has powerful effect on the individuals of Japanese modernization and cultural communication process.As an individual in cultural communication,Nagai Kaf? has been affected by these creed and theory,but though his “Stories” writing,Nagai Kaf? make it a backwash to Fukusawa Yukichi's theory of civilization.By the research on historical environment and national psychology of Nagai Kaf?'s western cultural experience of “Stories” writing,the researchers can analyze the important influence of historical environment and national psychology on the individuals in culture communication by combining the research methods of cross-cultural Imagoloy,interdisciplinary study and close reading.