Power Relations in Junichiro Tanizaki's Naomi
The most powerful and lasting contributions to the literature of a given era are invariably penned by bold thinkers struggling to comprehend the ever changing world in which they live. Spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Japanese Meiji Restoration period, which was propelled by the fusion of industrialized economy and Western culture, and personified by the authorial brilliance of authors such as Jun'ichir? Tanizaki, shaped and inspired a momentous political and social transformation within one of the world's most ancient civilzations. The toppling of previously infallible Shoguns and the sudden distribution of democratic ideals across boundaries of gender and class forced many traditional Japanese to recalibrate their worldview instantly, and the result is a wealth of material, including novels, plays and works of critical nonfiction, all of which focuses intently on the crumbling conventions of age-old gender roles. With the external foundations of the preexisting social order irrevocably shattered by the Meiji movement, young writers like Tanizaki focused their intellectual insight on the shifting structure of Japanese society itself, analyzing the evolution of concepts like fidelity, femininity, and power in a patriarchal society that has suddenly seen that power dynamic shift. Tanizaki's most renowned work of social analysis through fiction was Naomi, a novel written in simple yet searing prose that manages to cast a scathing lens on the conventional roles assigned to women in a male-dominated system, and the ramifications for both genders when these roles are reversed. By applying a feminist reading to Naomi, the modern reader can begin to surmise the ultimate import of Tanizaki's work, which stands today as a lasting testament to ability of literature to capture the essence of a historical era.
Tanizaki immediately establishes the thematic direction of Naomi in the novel's opening lines, as the narrator J-ji explains "I'm going to try to relate the facts...
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