SUCRA(さくら: Saitama University Cyber Repository of Academic Resources)は、埼玉大学に在籍する研究者の学術雑誌論文、紀要論文、科学研究費補助金成果報告書、学位論文、研究発表プレゼン資料などを登録し、広く世界に発信しています。 埼玉大学に在籍する皆様は、著作物をSUCRAを通じて発信することができます。詳しくは「成果物の登録方法」をご覧ください。
This paper investigates how characters of caretakers in village school novels symbolize British cultural, social and educational values amid the conflicts of tradition and reform in the political climate from WWII through Thatcherism to Brexit. Among abundant varieties of unique characters produced in their several long series of village school novels by Miss Read, Gervase Phinn and Jack Sheffield, school caretakers cut singularly similar figures, clearly an iconographic stereotype. Especially female caretakers, with their huge bodies and bold manners, displaying dedication to work and defiance toward authority, definitely evoke the images of a woman warrior, a guard and gatekeeper, and furthermore, working-class Britannia. Her battlefield is a school, her enemy is trespassers into her area, and her combat is a national myth for the British reader. Far from being a mere picture of nostalgia, the cameo of this dynamic, energetic lady with vitality functions as a powerful source of political encouragement for those yearning for preservation (or revival) of Englishness in education and society, that is, individualism and regionalism against threatening factors like the National Curriculum and the European Union. This goddess sweeps the school, gaining big popularity—and she sweeps the school, clearing away any obstacle to good, old traditional English values.
イギリス教育小説における学校掃除婦の表象 : その文化的意味と政治的機能<人文・社会科学>
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