英文摘要
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This paper focuses on the Japanese peer magazine Capital of Literature and Arts, examining how empire readers read and imagine the texts of the colonial writers. Frist, this paper delineates the career of the magazine's chief editor 保高德藏 and clarifies his character as well as explicates his relationships with those colonial writers who travelled in Japan and his support for their creative activities. Secondly, this paper discusses the publication of the colonial writers and their interaction with each other. Finally, this paper investigates the ways by which the readers of the magazine understand the literature of the colonized. Through the newly discovered materials such as 金史良's ”In the Light” and 青木洪's ”At the Corner of Tokyo,” this paper attempts to argue that those readers who lack of understanding of Japan's colonies have their own blindness and insight while encountering these texts by colonial writers. More often than not, they dwell upon the literary level of the texts, but neglect the colonial writers' anger and anxiety with regard to their contradictory identity. In sum, in the field of the Japanese literary circle, it is difficult for the colonial writers to meet someone who really understand their hidden messages and therefore the value of their work changes over time and is often endowed with different meanings.
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