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1 Title Author(s) アフリカイメージの創られ方 : ミュージカルライオンキングを通して川村, 明日香 Citation 大阪大学言語文化学. 27 P.55-P.68 Issue Date Text Version publisher URL DOI /71226 rights Osaka University Knowledge Archive : OUKA Osaka University

2 Vol. The story of the Broadway musical The Lion King is set in a fictional country in Africa. This image is a fantasy; however, audiences feel the reality of Africa represented in it. The present study is undertaken to reveal the mechanisms employed in making the fantasy seem Africa-like. If we regard the whole musical The Lion King as a text, the advertisements and pamphlets included in the production can be defined as paratexts which surround the main text and influence the readers understanding of the main text. The main text can be classified into two parts; the story and the expression. In the storyline, the only things to make us imagine Africa are the main characters who are African animals. However, in the expression, we can find many things that suggest Africa, for example, the sound of African languages in songs and dialogue, the make-up inspired by African tradition, and the clothings patterns and colors. These things create a synergy that makes us feel that the stage is an African-like space. However, most of the audience does not know which African language is spoken, and which African tradition is applied to the stage design. Further, although after the translation from English into Japanese the African images of the main text were almost unchanged, there is a substantial difference between the pamphlet of the Broadway production and that of the Japanese production. The former has explanations about the African cultures that are applied to the stage design, makeup, and costumes. In the Broadway production, the pamphlet writer insists that African images in The Lion King have roots to the real Africa. The latter mentions that the Japanese production of The Lion King promotes friendship between Japan and South Africa, but there is not much information about African culture. In the Japanese pamphlet, Africa is * How African Images Are Created: The Africa of The Lion King KAWAMURA Asuka **

3 presented as a vast place with unique percussion instruments, and the phrase a language unfamiliar to audiences is used to describe as the African language, Zulu. Thus, many in the Japanese audience imagie Africa as an entity that has a single African culture. Therefore, at each level of the storyline, the expression and the paratexts different African images are represented. Moreover, in the paratexts, African images in The Lion King are affected by the translation from English to Japanese. 1 :p.

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13 pp.-. XXV. pp.-. Barthes, RolandMythologies, Paris: Éditions du Seuil : Genette,GérardDiscours du récit in Figures, Paris: Éditions du Seuil Palimpsestes, Paris: Éditions du Seuil Seuils, Paris : Éditions du Seuil Gooding-Williams, RobertSpecificities: Cultures of American Identity Disney in Africa and the Inner City: On Race and Space in The Lion King Social Identities : - Taymor, JulieTHE LION KING:PRIDE ROCK ON BROADWAY New York:

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Title Author(s) アフリカイメージの創られ方 : ミュージカル ライオンキング を通して 川村, 明日香 Citation 大阪大学言語文化学. 27 P.55-P.68 Issue Date Text Version publisher URL

Title Author(s) アフリカイメージの創られ方 : ミュージカルライオンキングを通して川村, 明日香 Citation 大阪大学言語文化学. 27 P.55-P.68 Issue Date Text Version publisher URL