But There's Your Mother and Your Work
But There's Your Mother and Your Work
The Family and the Nation in Hototogisu
This chapter examines the models of family and their relationship to the nation in the Japanese melodrama Hototogisu by Tokutomi Roka. It examines how this novel negotiates extra-literary discourses involving representations of family, gender and status and analyzes it representation of temporality. This chapter also argues that the ideological contradiction of this melodrama traces a trajectory toward an exclusively male fictive family serving the interconnected needs of manliness and nationalism.
Keywords: family, nation, Hototogisu, Tokutomi Roka, gender, status, temporality, ideological contradiction, manliness, nationalism
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