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DOI : 10.60527/qd0s-7q61
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MSHBx. (2024, 16 novembre). "Did anyone hear what I said?": Acting through sound in Higuchi Ichiyō’s writing , in Le Japon sonore : modernité, constructions sociales, rapports de force / Japan and sound: modernity, social constructs and power relations. [Vidéo]. Canal-U. https://doi.org/10.60527/qd0s-7q61. (Consultée le 25 avril 2025)
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"Did anyone hear what I said?": Acting through sound in Higuchi Ichiyō’s writing

Réalisation : 16 novembre 2024 - Mise en ligne : 18 février 2025
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Gala Maria Follaco, "Did anyone hear what I said?": Acting through sound in Higuchi Ichiyō’s writing. 

Panel 8 – Language and voice 

My paper will examine aural representation in two short stories by Higuchi Ichiyō (1872-1896), “Yamizakura” (1892) and “Yamiyo” (1894). In these works, the author attaches multiple symbolic meanings to acoustic items such as sound and voices, giving the texts a multilayered structure, which conceals a secondary narrative of inequality, oppression, and a sense of inadequacy beneath the facts told. Endorsing scholarly work on Ichiyō from the last three decades (Seki 1997; Chida 2000; Minemura 2006; Compernolle 2006; Follaco 2020), which has brought her critical posture closer to the centre of research, particularly with regard to the ideology of risshin shusse, I will search within these two short stories, understudied thus far, for traces of her representation of the feminine and the poor as forgotten categories within the context of that powerful discourse on progress and social advancement. I will draw upon the ideas of major theorists of sound and voice in literature, primarily Mikhail Bakhtin and Adriana Cavarero, to show how Ichiyō identifies voice with agency, and the silencing of women and the poor, alongside their objectification through speech, the supreme form of repression. 

Colloque "Le Japon sonore : modernité, constructions sociales, rapports de force / Japan and sound: modernity, social constructs and power relations" 14-16 novembre 2024, organisé par Jeremy Corral (UMRU 24140 D2IA, Université Bordeaux Montaigne) et par Chiharu Chûjô (EA 4186-IETT, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3).

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