La japonité selon Jeanne d’Arc.
Mythes et récits occidentaux dans le manga et l’anime
Romain Chappuis
The appropriation of transnational cultural flows that
occurs as a result of globalization is studied here through adaptations of Western narratives in manga and anime. This “Other” is integrated by exacerbating some of its features: The West is presented in Japanese works as
conveyor of an excessive, unjust and potentially dangerous world, as the
manifestation of Cartesianism taken to the extreme. Japaneseness, which is
then defined by opposition to this incorporated otherness, brings out a supposedly specifically Japanese sensitivity, thus perpetuating a long intellectual
tradition that sees in the feeling of things the very essence of Japaneseness by
contrast to the rational Chinese and Western mind. Episodes from the life of
Joan of Arc and Athena’s divine interventions for instance then take on new
meaning, which serves to promote Japaneseness and the essential values it
conveys, such as the importance of social harmony and the close interdependence among members of the community.
• Les « excès » du cartésianisme
— Le sujet et l’objet
— Le bien et le mal
— La communauté et l’essence du mal
• La japonité : un surplus d’humanité
— Harmonie sociale et nihonjinron
— Travail et amae : les clés de l’intégration