「井上靖賞」の存在自体知らなかった。但し、Ian McArthur氏の論文は面白そう。
Dr. Ian McArthur, of Sydney University, was announced as the winner of the third Inoue Yasushi award at a ceremony held at the Japan Foundation on 20 March 2009.The award was established by the Inoue Yasushi Memorial Foundation to encourage Australian researchers, scholars and PhD students who are studying Japanese culture and literature. It is awarded annually for the best refereed journal article or book chapter on Japanese literature to have been published during the previous year by a researcher based in Australia.
Inoue Yasushi was a prominent post-Second World War novelist and poet. A winner of the prestigious Akutagawa Prize in 1950, his work combined serious themes with fascinating and intriguing plots. For the next forty years until his death in 1991, Inoue wrote both lengthy novels and short stories, from exciting love stories to historical sagas, and his works enjoy wide popularity from general readership to scholars and intellectuals.
Dr McArthur received this year's award for his article 'Narrating the Law in Japan: Rakugo in the Meiji Law Reform Debate', which was published in the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies (ejcjs) on 15 August 2008. ejcjs is an academic journal in the social sciences that publishes research and scholarly writing on all issues related to contemporary Japan. Dr McArthur's article illustrates the contribution by professional rakugo storytelling to debate over law reform in the Meiji period with particular reference to the stories of Australian-born rakugoka Henry Black. The full article can be viewed here*1 .
http://www.jpf.org.au/02_events/inoue/awardwinner09.html
