A Brief Comment about Kanai Mieko’s 金井美恵子 “Rabbits” (Usagi 兎, 1972), from Hawaii Plantation
Every now & then while teaching a work in class I will suddenly locate the vantage from which the truth of the text is revealed. This happened today with Kanai Mieko’s 金井美恵子 “Rabbits” (Usagi 兎, 1972). Imagine an interview in which Kanai is asked "What is the source of your art/writing/écriture? From whence does it come?" She answers: "Do you really want to know? It ain't pretty," & then proceeds to confess how as a young girl she had an alter-ego with an insanely active imagination, full of weird animalistic bloody-sexual fantasies, Elektra complexes, etc. In the story, Narrator 1 [the adult author] meets this younger alter-ego, listens to her crazy story, unites with her in the end, & thereby overcomes her present writer's block. All the gruesome stuff at the end about self-blinding is a metafictional metaphor for her own writing style in which subjectivity/imagination takes precedent over naturalistic observation, [physical] blindness enables [imaginative/poietic] sight/vision, etc. Without Narrator 2 (her crazy alter-ego as a girl) there is no Narrator 1 (Kanai Mieko today).
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