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三島由紀夫『仮面の告白』という表象をめぐって ― 1950 Title 年前後の男性同性愛表象に関する考察 ― Author(s)武内, 佳代 CitationF-GENSジャーナル Issue Date2007-09 URL /10083/3888 Rights Resource Departmental Bulletin Paper Type Resource Version Additional Information No.9 September 200 7 Reconsidering Yukio Mishimas Confessions of a Mask as Representation: A Study of Representations of Homosexuality from 1949 to 1954 武内佳代 This paper discusses changes in the representations of homosexual motifs in Yukio Mishimas Confessions of a Mask (Kamen no Kokuhaku, 1949) by following relevant social phenomena and aspects of male homosexual discourses that circulated during the five-year period between 1949 and 1954. To this day, Confessions of a Mask is heralded as an epoch-making homosexual novel that is the first work in modern Japan to depict homosexual love in a realistic way. In 1949, when the work first appeared, however, literary critics were indifferent to this homosexual motif. Meanwhile general readers were curious. The coexistence of conflicting responses has as a backdrop the limited contemporary homosexual discourse and a pervasive heterosexual ideology. Then in 1951, when Mishimas Forbidden Colors (Kinjiki, 1951-1953) creates a homosexual social phenomenon, the literary establishment begins to pay attention to the homosexual motif and retroactively reevaluates Confessions of a Mask as the origin of Mishimas oeuvre. What I reveal through this paper is that the model for current literary interpretations of Confessions of a Mask emerges from a reproduced discourse that emerged in the 1950s after Forbidden Colors appeared in print. Key words : homosexualitypost World War IIYukio Mishimas Confessions of a Mask 1949