Teach me about liberalism: Constructing social elites and the English divide in the Japanese TV drama, Massan

Ito, Rika

doi:10.1016/j.dcm.2021.100495

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“…It was impossible for these family members to allow other family members, particularly women and young men, to achieve independence. As a leader, they have the authority to make important decisions about an individual's life and career choices (Yurkovetskiy et al, 2013;Ito, 2021). The difficulties that women and young men face within their own families are depicted in Dattani's Tara.…”

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culture of patriarchy, gender bias, and class discrimination in Mahesh Dattani’s Tara

Kumar

2021

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This research paper, which makes use of Mahesh Dattani's play Tara (1990), emphasises the concept of social issues such as gender inequalities, suffering, and depression, which are experienced by both men and women in equal measure. Gender discrimination, injustice done solely on the basis of gender, and preference for male children in Indian homes are all issues that are the focus of this research. Tara, Dattani's other play, addresses the issue of gender discrimination. The play addresses the emotional and physical separation of conjoined twins. It exemplifies the society's ingrained patriarchal system. Women act as a key in patriarchy's hands, ensuring the survival of patriarchal values. The purpose of this article is to discuss and analyse the play's issue of female marginalisation. Chandan, a boy child, is preferred to Tara, a girl child, in an Indian family. Despite the fact that she is Tara's mother, Bharati wrecks her daughter's life and ultimately suffers as a result of her harsh behaviour. Dr. Thakkar makes an error in his capacity as a scientist and a technophile. Bharati and her father bribed him with a piece of land in exchange for Tara’s death.

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culture of patriarchy, gender bias, and class discrimination in Mahesh Dattani’s Tara

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2021

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Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy

Ito

2022

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Ito

2024

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This article investigates linguistic and visual representations of the Ainu, the indigenous people of northern Japan, in Satoru Noda’s popular televised Japanese anime Golden Kamuy (GK). The study employs multimodal analysis, focusing on content, context, characters, and perspectives related to the deployment of the Ainu language using the perspectives of raciolinguistics, coloniality, and intersectionality, to examine GK’s representations of Ainu regarding two Japanese national discourses on race: the current discourse of “ethnic harmony” (or multiculturalism) and Ainu as a dying race, popularized in the early 20th century. It argues that GK unintentionally constructs a sanitized Ainu-Japanese relationship that epitomizes the discourse of ethnic harmony by erasing Japan’s colonial past. Simultaneously, GK reproduces Ainu as a dying race discourse by contrasting a young bilingual Ainu co-protagonist and her monolingual grandmother. The article discusses how advanced/backward distinctions that the Japanese elites appropriated from the 19th-century colonial discourse are reinscribed in this anime with a modern twist. It also advocates our need to raise critical questions about language, race, and power for a just society in various contexts, including popular media.

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Teach me about liberalism: Constructing social elites and the English divide in the Japanese TV drama, Massan

Cited by 4 publications

References 33 publications

culture of patriarchy, gender bias, and class discrimination in Mahesh Dattani’s Tara

culture of patriarchy, gender bias, and class discrimination in Mahesh Dattani’s Tara

Edutaining with indigeneity: Mediatizing Ainu bilingualism in the Japanese anime, Golden Kamuy

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