出版社：The Global Institute for Japanese Studies, Korea University
摘要：This paper will examine how public health measures instituted under the U.S. military occupation of Japan and Okinawa were reflected in the spatial organization of novels of the period through a comparison of the novels White Season by Tatsuhiro Oshiro and The Only Ones by Akiko Hiroike. It will then re-read “Koza” and “Tachikawa” as connected spaces of the occupation of the female body. The description of the entertainment district in the newspaper novel White Season, evinces the results of the laws promulgated by the U.S. military. The collusion between the U.S. military and a local doctor through the exchange of a prostitute leads to the gaze on the part of the doctor that evokes both the city and the female body as hotbeds of crime. The novel’s conclusion reveals that the elimination of the military base leads to the rediscovery of the natural landscape and true love. Next, I will argue that the representation of the “rental room” in The Only Ones is a space that produces money while masking women’s sex work, and at the same time it is a place where prostitutes evade the law and live together. I will also argue that the depiction of the most corrupted of the multiple prostitutes captures the military space of the Korean War.
