Finding a way out: A study of the violence in Natsuo Kirino's OUT

Date of Publication

2007

Document Type

Bachelor's Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts in Literature

Subject Categories

Comparative Literature

College

College of Liberal Arts

Department/Unit

Literature

Thesis Adviser

Ma. Teresa Wright

Defense Panel Member

Shirley Lua
David Jonathan Bayot
Ma. Teresa Wright

Abstract/Summary

This thesis is a Natsuo Kirino's use of violence in her novel OUT to undermine patriarchal Japan. A postmodern feminist approach was used in analyzing the novel by juztaposing Zygmunt Bauman's concept of postmodern violation, adiaphorization, and identity with Alice Jardine's gynesis. The analysis is concerned with the author's decpition of violence, the ways in which it subverts patriarhy, and the extent of this subversion. These three areas of concern give light to Kirino's own attempt, through her own writing, to render death, dismembered, and decay to the forces of Japanese society that perpetuate patriarchy.

Abstract Format

html

Language

English

Format

Print

Accession Number

TU13565

Shelf Location

Archives, The Learning Commons, 12F, Henry Sy Sr. Hall

Physical Description

[6], 54 leaves ; 29 cm.

Keywords

Women--Japan--Drama; Japanese drama (Comedy); Comedy films--Japan; Yakuza--Japan--Fiction

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