6/28/2023 0 Comments Kitchen moonlight shadowThe reader also becomes an “author” in finding the meaning of the narrative. However, it is the bewilderment of youth that gives the text multiple meanings. Their lives seem to be frozen in a certain small space. As Sekine argues, “The protagonists/narrators in these stories are young urban adults in a largely Americanized and highly consumerist society, in which their self-consciousness is often overpowered by a materialistic affluence that forces them to adopt the same desires as everyone else” (Sekine, 2001, p. The narrative world in such writing is full of Japanese youths embarking on a path where traditional values are increasingly lost and alternative values are unfamiliar. It is a combination of traditional and contemporary values and of reality and dreams. Hybridity is a unique style of writing in Banana’s fiction, especially Kitchen.
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