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In this paper, I intend to examine the images of Africa and Africans in Japanese literature. Africa and Africans do not feature prominently in Japanese writing; but there are two major authors from Japan who have in various ways dealt with Africa and Africans. One is the winner of the 1994 Novel Prize for literature, Kenzaburo Oe; the other is the president of the Soka Gakkai International, Daisaku Ikeda.
The short story that won Kenzaburo Oe the first literary award, the so-called Akutagawa Prize, is titled "Prize Stock. " This work is about an African American whose military aircraft crashes on Japanese territory, and who is then held hostage by the Japanese. It is a story of racial prejudice and xenophobia. In the novel, A Personal Matter, Oe uses Africa as a backdrop to his romantic tale, and alludes to the influence of Amos Tutuola's novel My life in the Bush of Ghosts in an apparent attempt, through his character, Bird, to come to terms with having a deformed child. (My life in the Bush of Ghosts is one of the most well known African novels in Japan.)
For his part, after witnessing the entry of the newly-independent African countries into the United Nations, Daisaku Ikeda in 1960 famously called the twenty-first century the century of Africa. This was the beginning of his fascination with Africa. In addition to hosting many African leaders in Tokyo in his capacity as SGI president, Ikeda has written one substantial poem on Nelson Mandela, former South African president, and another on Wole Soyinka, the African winner of the 1986 Novel Prize for literature. He also has an essay on Nelson Mandela.
I will examine the works of these leading Japanese writers in so far as they relate to Africa as a way of understanding Japanese perception of Africa and Africans. I have not read these works in their original Japanese, and so, as I make this tentative attempt, I am conscious of the limitations of translations of literary works. The fact remains that it is through translation that many African scholars have gained access to Japanese literature.
The short story that won Kenzaburo Oe the first literary award, the so-called Akutagawa Prize, is titled "Prize Stock. " This work is about an African American whose military aircraft crashes on Japanese territory, and who is then held hostage by the Japanese. It is a story of racial prejudice and xenophobia. In the novel, A Personal Matter, Oe uses Africa as a backdrop to his romantic tale, and alludes to the influence of Amos Tutuola's novel My life in the Bush of Ghosts in an apparent attempt, through his character, Bird, to come to terms with having a deformed child. (My life in the Bush of Ghosts is one of the most well known African novels in Japan.)
For his part, after witnessing the entry of the newly-independent African countries into the United Nations, Daisaku Ikeda in 1960 famously called the twenty-first century the century of Africa. This was the beginning of his fascination with Africa. In addition to hosting many African leaders in Tokyo in his capacity as SGI president, Ikeda has written one substantial poem on Nelson Mandela, former South African president, and another on Wole Soyinka, the African winner of the 1986 Novel Prize for literature. He also has an essay on Nelson Mandela.
I will examine the works of these leading Japanese writers in so far as they relate to Africa as a way of understanding Japanese perception of Africa and Africans. I have not read these works in their original Japanese, and so, as I make this tentative attempt, I am conscious of the limitations of translations of literary works. The fact remains that it is through translation that many African scholars have gained access to Japanese literature.
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