@article{oai:sucra.repo.nii.ac.jp:00018950,
 author = {武田, ちあき},
 issue = {1},
 journal = {埼玉大学紀要. 教育学部, Journal of Saitama University. Faculty of Education},
 month = {},
 note = {This paper aims to read Gervase Phinn’s Yorkshire school novels as a parable of union and disunion of major regions in the United Kingdom. By analysing the characters and plots in the Dales series (1998-2010), this study pursues the politics and power balance of regional elements in the story and discovers a curious pattern of subverting the conventional hierarchy. In Phinn’s world, Irishness, Welshness and Scottishness are united to serve Yorkshire while Englishness is suppressed, diverged, mocked and even despised. The series depicting the Education Board of Yorkshire under Thatcherism, though dubbed non-fiction, comprises an allegory of alliance and discord among regions to be received by the reader in the twenty-first century when globalism threatens national and regional identity in manifold ways. Phinn’s novels have a mildly but definitely Utopian nature with a tinge of Irish satire reminding of Jonathan Swift; yet unlike Swift, in Phinn’s work characteristically and paradoxically, the more humorous and heart-warming his narrative of Yorkshire schools is, the more bitingly and stingingly it functions to criticise the cold, dismal and humourless business and policy of the Westminster. Demonstrating that humour and language are positively powerful weapons needed in the battlefield of education, both for teachers and administrators, Phinn’s books can also act as a comical propaganda for regionalism as found in the manifesto of Yorkshire Party., text, application/pdf},
 pages = {233--259},
 title = {連合(ユニオン)／分離(ディスユニオン)の寓話としてのヨークシャー学校小説 : 地域間のポリティクスとパワーバランスの展開<人文・社会科学>},
 volume = {69},
 year = {2020},
 yomi = {タケダ, チアキ}
}