Disease Narrative In Defu Luhua's "Better To Return"

The world's impermanence,birth,old age,sickness and death,and disease endow a person with a special life experience,as a cultural phenomenon,it provides a rich writing material and narrative strategy for the writer's literary creation.In the Meiji era,tuberculosis was a "national disease/a disease of subjugation",and its horrific contagion,heredity,and lethality were also important content of the writer's literary creation.Tokutomi Roka's "Hototogisu" is a representative work of modern Japanese tuberculosis literature one.From the perspective of creative content,"Hototogisu" mainly tells the poignant love story between the sick woman Kataoka Namiko and the navy lieutenant Kawajima Takeo in the context of the cultural conflicts between the East and the West.In terms of narrative strategy,Tokutomi Roka closely focuses on the topic of "disease".In the novel,"disease" is set as a key factor to promote the development of the storyline based on the background of Meiji social medical care,law,and family system,and disease is also plays a vital role in the double narrative level of the story(the marriage of Namiko is broken)and the "narrative"(narrated by the author Lu Hua).The thesis will combine the traditional Japanese family concept,the Meiji era "good wife and loving mother" system,war background and the writer's personal experience,discuss the writer's disease narrative strategy,and explore the writer's disease narrative causes and creative intentions.The main body of the thesis is divided into four chapters.The first chapter is a general content,divided into two subsections.The first section summarizes Tokutomi Roka's creative characteristics and creative thoughts,and lays the foundation for the study of the writer's disease narrative;the second section combs the disease narrative in Japanese literature and clarifies the evolution of the disease narrative in Japanese literature.The second chapter combines the disease background of the Meiji era,based on the text,analyzes the writer's disease narrative about Namiko and interprets the cause and psychology of Namiko's illness.This chapter includes two subsections.The first section combines pathology to analyze the causes of Namiko's illness from the genetic nature of tuberculosis,the physical and mental conditions before Namiko'sillness;In the text,the verbal description and plot arrangement of Namiko after his illness,explore the psychology of Namiko.The third chapter analyzes the writer's plot setting about Namiko's illness from the characters around Namiko in the text,clarifies the writer's disease narrative strategy and narrative intention,and then reveals the family system,disease background,and war background of the sick women in the Meiji era.Survival dilemma.The coexistence of real facts and fictitious narratives in the novel reflects the writer's creative ideas and the recognition and criticism of social systems from the side.Therefore,Chapter 3 starts with the author's fictional setting of the character image of Qian Qianyan,combined with traditional Japanese family concepts,and analyzes the emotional entanglement between Qian Qianyan and Namiko and Takeo,and clarifies his borrowings from the Namiko after his illness.Opportunistic revenge is the fuse that led to the tragic fate of Namiko;secondly,from the author's deconstruction and reconstruction of Namiko's mother-in-law Kei's character as a starting point,the paper discusses Namiko's mother-in-law Kei's forced divorce from Namiko and Takeo around the Meiji era "good wife and loving mother" system The plot setting is the key factor leading to the tragic fate of Namiko.Finally,from the perspective of the "family state view" of the Meiji era,he compares Takeo's character prototypes and analyzes the narrative orientation of the "Takeo soldier identity" in the text.The fictitious identity of Takeo is an important factor leading to the tragic fate of Namiko.The fourth chapter explores the causes of the writer's disease narrative.This chapter is divided into three subsections.The first section will analyze the formation factors of Roka's “dual oppositional thinking” from Roka's family and personal experience,and then point out the dual opposition of “good and evil” Thought is an important ideological basis for Roka's literary creation;the second section analyzes the writer's emotional concept,and explores the writer's narrative reasons for the change of emotional concept before and after the illness of Namiko in "Hototogisu";the third section integrates the writer ' s personal ideological awareness and Against the background of Sino-Japanese War in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895,the author analyzed the construction process of the writer's "family state view",and explained the writer's disease narrative under the influence of "family state view".The last is the conclusion.The causes of women's illness and psychology in the disease narrative strategy of "Hototogisu" discussed in the main text,the "good wife and loving mother" system of the Meiji era and the survival dilemma of sick women in the context of war,will be discussed in the main text.Summarizing and analyzing the causes of Roka's disease narratives,in order to reflect the writer's true creative intentions.