Regards de la France sur le Japon de 1945 à 1995
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Abstract EN:
Imagology is a socio-literary term which designs the analysis of the view that one nation may have of another. This imagology dissertation is defined by the analysis of the vision of japan by the french from 1945 to nowadays. This analysis must take into consideration different contexts which fashioned it. It must be pushed forward through opinions which, if they differ by the method, meet in order to allow us to comprehend the question in the whole. Therefore the approach of sociologists will make possible to understand how a certain view of japan is formulated. In the same line of thinking, the analysis of the position of the media is absolutely necessary : indeed the media are responsible for transmitting opinions concerning this country. Finally, of special interest is the image that writers in the french language have contributed to creating, on whatever level their sensibility has been: criticism, admiration or objectivity. Generally speaking, the imagological research, confronts us with ways of looking ("regards") very different, if not contradictory. The portrait of japan that the authors paint may vary from the most charming face to the darkest caricature. Reality tends to be deformed in one way or the other. When the french looked into the "magical mirror" which, according to michel butor, japan is, the image that was reflected, either fascinated or horrified them. The question is to decide why it has been practically impossible to obtain a neutral and objective view of this country. Imagology, in the process of studying the picture that one nation has of another, will permit for this research to approach a point, located half-may between two realities, between the mystification and the demystification of a culture and its people.
Abstract FR:
L'imagologie est un terme socio-litteraire qui designe l'analyse du regard qu'un peuple peut avoir sur un autre. Cette these d'imagologie se definit par l'analyse de la vision du japon par les francais de 1945 a nos jours. Cette analyse doit tenir compte des differents contextes qui l'ont faconnee. Elle doit etre poussee a travers des points de vue qui, s'ils se differencient par la methode, se rejoignent pour nous permettre de cerner la question dans son ensemble. Ainsi, l'approche de sociologues permettra de mieux comprendre comment se formule une certaine vision du japon. Ensuite, l'analyse de la position des medias s'impose parce qu'ils ont la responsabilite de la transmission de points de vue et d'opinions sur ce pays. Enfin, sera du plus grand l'interet l'image que les ecrivains francais ou francophones ont contribue a creer, que ce soit dans un registre critique, admirateur ou plus objectif selon leur sensibilite. D'une facon generale, l'entreprise imagologique met en presence de "regards" fort differents, voire contradictoires. Le portrait brosse peut varier du visage le plus enjoleur a la plus noire des caricatures. La realite a tendance a etre deformee dans un sens ou dans l'autre. Quand les francais ont regarde dans "le miroir magique", selon l'expression de michel butor, qu'est le japon, l'image qui s'y est refletee, les a soit fascines soit horrifies. La question est de savoir pourquoi il a ete pratiquement impossible d'obtenir de ce pays une vision neutre et objective. L'imagologie, en etudiant la notion qu'une nation a d'une autre, va permettre a cette recherche d'approcher ce point du milieu, situe entre deux realites, a mi- chemin entre la mystification et la demystification d'une culture et de son peuple.