头号玩家和美国经济和技术霸权的重新确立

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MFS-Modern Fiction Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-01 DOI:10.1353/mfs.2022.0009

Claire Stanford

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摘要:本文对欧内斯特·克莱恩的《头号玩家》(2011)进行了地缘政治解读，重点关注小说中经常被忽视的日本角色。虽然小说背景设定在2045年，但它的叙事是对当今经济衰退时期的美国与崛起中的亚洲之间全球经济紧张关系的寓言。通过将小说中的日本角色简化为前现代和后现代的日本隐喻(武士和蛰居族)，克莱恩将日本描绘成一个受到遏制的经济和技术威胁，从而塑造了一个美国个人主义战胜亚洲集体主义的未来。

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Ready Player One and the Reassertion of US Economic and Technological Supremacy

Abstract:This essay offers a geopolitical reading of Ernest Cline's Ready Player One (2011), focusing on the novel's often-overlooked Japanese characters. While the novel is set in 2045, its narrative is an allegory for present-day global economic tensions between a recession-era US and a rising Asia. By reducing the novel's Japanese characters to premodern and postmodern Japanese tropes (the samurai and the hikikomori [shut-in]), Cline portrays Japan as an economic and technological threat that has been contained, and thus models a future in which American individualism wins out over Asian collectivism.

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期刊介绍： Modern Fiction Studies publishes engaging articles on prominent works of modern and contemporary fiction. Emphasizing historical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary approaches, the journal encourages a dialogue between fiction and theory, publishing work that offers new theoretical insights, clarity of style, and completeness of argument. Modern Fiction Studies alternates general issues dealing with a wide range of texts with special issues focused on single topics or individual writers.