| As a representative writer of Japanese post-war literature,Kenzaburo Oe is well known by the people of Japan and even the world.In 1994,he became the second Japanese writer to win the Nobel Prize for literature.The themes of his literary works involve imprisonment,sex,politics,nuclear issues,children with disabilities and social peace.This paper takes Kenzaburo Oe’s literary works with the theme of the war in the early and middle stages and the rule of the US Army after the war as the research object.The specific works are "human sheep" and "Okinawa notes".Through the analysis of the two works,this paper explores how the understanding of Japanese militarist war has changed in the early and middle stages of Kenzaburo Oe’s literature.The theme of Kenzaburo Oe’s early works is "the state of imprisonment",which metaphors the situation of post-war Japan.Moreover,the appearance of characters and the setting of time and space in the work not only clarify the creative intention of Kenzaburo Oe in the early stage,but also reflect his understanding of war.The "imprisoned state" defined by the writer himself is the "consistent theme" of his early works.As a symbol of the situation of Japan and the Japanese after the war,he focuses on all the Japanese in the "wall" and depicts the Japanese as the weak.At the same time,it symbolically shows Kenzaburo Oe’s realistic and historical understanding of the post-war situation.The representative work is "human sheep" issued in 1958.Taking Japan occupied by the US Army after World War II as the creative background,the work "human sheep" reflects the living state of the Japanese after World War II.Kenzaburo Oe gave a detailed description of both the US military and the Japanese.Through the rough attitude and behavior of the US military,as well as the key words such as "obesity","anger","authority" and "order",it fully shows the image of arrogant,barbaric,arrogant and unreasonable perpetrators.Contrary to the strength of the US military,the Japanese are portrayed as weak,submissive and cowardly victims and victims.Through this image description,combined with the background of the times at that time,we can see the realistic understanding of Kenzaburo Oe’s post-war situation and the understanding of the war.During this period,in Kenzaburo Oe’s understanding of the war,the Japanese were victims and victims like sheep.These can be said to be the young 23-year-old Kenzaburo Oe’s understanding of war.However,Kenzaburo Oe’s mid-term literary work Okinawa notes can be said to be the most direct reflection of his understanding of the Japanese militarist war.Based on history and reality,Kenzaburo Oe profoundly described the tragic fate of Okinawa in the three periods before,during and after the war.At the same time,it also exposed the true face of the Japanese like "wolf".However,in Kenzaburo Oe’s early literary work "human sheep",the post-war Japanese are the image of a gentle "sheep" oppressed by the brutal U.S.military as the ruler.It can be said that in the mid-term "Okinawa notes",the image of the Japanese in Kenzaburo Oe’s works has undergone great qualitative changes.It can be found that the Japanese have changed from "sheep" to "wolf".Before the war,the Japanese "Chinese thought" put on the cloak of westernization and transformed into the driving force of Japanese aggression and expansion,making Japan embark on a foolish road of destruction.Japan is undoubtedly the aggressor and the victim of its own "Chinese thought" to the aggrieved country.This is Kenzaburo Oe’s understanding of the Japanese in this period,and it is also his understanding of the war. |
