메도루마 슌(目取真俊) 『풍음(風音)』 고찰

Abstract

The ideological basis that supports Medoruma's narratives is the antiwar peace centered on the Battle of Okinawa. The novel <The Crying Wind> is structured with three axes: Okinawa, Japan, and US army base. These are shaped through the ‘Crying Skull’, the ‘Tilapia’, and the ‘Tree Nymph Butterfly’, respectively. The mainland is expressed as a brutal and violent topos through the ‘Crying Skull.’ Next, the stickiness of the US army base is expressed grotesquely through the ‘Tilapia’, and boy characters are set so that the conquest of the incompatibility is expected. Okinawa is represented through the ‘Tree Nymph Butterfly.’ The spiritual power of Tree Nymph Butterfly to protect and mediate can be said to be completed through the power of female characters. The role as a guardian deity for peace in the Okinawa region is expected. The aerial sepulture site village is a place like a specimen room where the militaristic madness of the United States and Japan and the trauma of the war are displayed and the tragic nature can be read in that the resigning view that the conquest of the foregoing cannot happen in reality is completed into a fantasy space through the climatic colors of Okinawa.