Asian Journal of Social Studies
AJSS, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2026, pp.46-55.
Print ISSN: 3106-6836; Online ISSN: 3106-6844
Journal homepage: https://www.assjournal.com
DOI: Https://doi.org/10.64058/AJSS260106grvpm
王亦凡（ Wang Yifan）
摘要：近代日本政治史中“暴动”传统始终呈现“暧昧”立场，自明治维新起，日本在追随西方与保持亚洲身份之间摇摆不定，而暴力活动则从樱田门外之变延续至1960年安保斗争，成为国家建构过程中的显著现象。大江健三郎在《万延元年的Football》中通过文学叙事重构了这一暴力谱系，将幕末的安政大狱、血税一揆等历史事件与战后学生运动形成时空呼应，借助本雅明（Walter Benjamin）历史哲学框架，展现鹰四与蜜三郎兄弟分别承载的历史唯物主义与历史主义对立。四国山村的地方暴动史与全国性政治运动的交织展现了暴力如何从幕末志士、博徒延续至战后“暴力专家”，同时揭示了日本对欧美国家的矛盾态度——既憎恶又崇拜，既抗拒又依赖。超市天皇、大象等意象进一步具象化了战后日本的复杂心理结构，使小说成为解读日本近代化进程中暴力循环与身份焦虑的重要文本。
关键词：暴动；《万延元年的Football》；大江健三郎
作者介绍：王亦凡，在读硕士，西北师范大学文学院，研究方向为世界文学，1169117828@qq.com
Title: The Genealogy of Riot: Violent Politics in Modern Japan and Historical Narrative in “The Silent Cry”
Abstract: The tradition of “riot” in modern Japanese political history has always maintained an ambiguous stance. Since the Meiji Restoration, Japan has wavered between emulating the West and preserving its Asian identity, while violent activities—from the Sakuradamon Incident to the 1960 Anpo protests—have persisted as a notable phenomenon in the process of nation-building. In The Silent Cry, Kenzaburō ōe reconstructs this genealogy of violence through literary narrative, creating temporal and spatial echoes between historical events such as the Ansei Purge and the Blood Tax Rebellion of the late Edo period and the postwar student movements. Drawing on Walter Benjamin's philosophy of history, ōe portrays the brothers Takashi and Mitsusaburō as embodying the opposition between historical materialism and historicism. The interweaving of local riot histories in the Shikoku mountain village with nationwide political movements demonstrates how violence persisted from late Edo activists and gamblers to postwar “violence experts,” while also revealing Japan's ambivalent attitude toward Western powers—a blend of resentment and admiration, resistance and dependence. Symbols such as the Supermarket King and the elephant further concretize the complex psychological structure of postwar Japan, making the novel a crucial text for interpreting the cycle of violence and identity anxiety in Japan's modernization process.
Keywords: Rioting; The Silent Cry; Kenzaburō ōe
Author Biography: Wang Yifan, Postgraduate, College of Chinese Language and Literature, Northwest Normal University, the research focus is on world literature, 1169117828@qq.com.
