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- Title: From Cultural Alterity to the Habitations of Grace: The Evolving Moral Topography of Endo's Mudswamp Trope (Shusaku Endo) (Critical Essay)
- Author : Christianity and Literature
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,Religion & Spirituality,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 114 KB
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Few readers of Shusaku Endo's novel Silence can forget the apostate Ferreira's declaration to Father Rodrigues that Japan is "a more terrible swamp than you can imagine. Whenever you plant a sapling in this swamp the roots begin to rot; the leaves grow yellow and wither. And we have planted the sapling of Christianity in this swamp"(147). Ferreira's metaphorical swamp emerges organically in this novel as the culmination of a complex pattern of vegetative imagery and, apart from its dramatic effect at this juncture in the plot, might seem to be an unexceptional trope. Nevertheless, the frequency with which Endo elsewhere invokes this metaphorical swamp suggests its singular importance in his thinking about culture and faith. Endo often used the "swamp" or "mudswamp" to signify metaphorically either his own personal identity or else a collective Japanese identity. In an oft-cited interview, Endo conceded that his Catholicism often felt "borrowed" and distinct from his "real self" This feeling, he suggested, "is the 'mudswamp' Japanese in me" (Mathy, "Shusaku Endo: Japanese Catholic Novelist" 592). The fact that he modified this swamp with "Japanese" suggests that this swamp identity represented not merely an individual identity but a shared, culturally-particular identity. In another interview, he characterized "Japan as a sort of 'marsh'" explaining the trope by noting "that Japan is a country which transforms the religions that it accepts ..." (Yamagata 497).
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