シンリ　ガ　カタレナイ　ジダイ　ニ　サイコウ　スル　モノガタリ　ノ　ヤクワリ　ニホン　ニ　オケル　ポストモダン　シソウ　ノ　カンテン　カラ

The role of narrative in an age without truth : From the perspective of Postmodern thought in Japan

カガワ, ユウキ

Kagawa, Yuki

ポストモダン

虚構

現実

物語

the End of Grand Narratives

Postmodern

fiction

real

narrative

It has been more than 30 years since Lyotard proclaimed the advent of the Postmodern. Postmodernism as a social trend is no longer in vogue, and many countries have moved to historicize Postmodernism in this century. In Japan, Postmodernism has been out of fashion since the 1990s. However, at the time, a special Postmodern theory was developed in Japan by Hiroki Azuma and Masachi Osawa, who analyzed social changes attributed to Postmodernization, examined the intricate relationship between people’s subjectivization and fictional narratives found in manga and Japanese animation. This paper analyzes their postmodern theory, taking into consideration the perspectives that have evolved in narrative research since the 1990s. The purpose is to present the role of narratives after The End of Grand Narratives or in the current Post-Truth Era.