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Literature among the ruins, 1945-1955 : postwar Japanese literary criticism
Published [2018] by Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland
ISBN 9780739180730
Bib Id 2408136
Description vii, 194 pages ; 24 cm.
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2018-018921
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9780739180730 (paperback) $40.00
0739180738 (paperback)
9780739180723 alkaline paper
073918072X alkaline paper
9780739180747 (ePub ebook)
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895.609 L
Title
Literature among the ruins, 1945-1955 : postwar Japanese literary criticism
Publication Information
[2018] by Lexington Books, Lanham, Maryland :
Description
vii, 194 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Atsuko Ueda, Richi Sakakibara, Michael K. Bourdaghs, and Hirokazu Toeda -- Part I. Foregrounding the Cold War. Early Freeze Warning : The Politics and Literature Debate as Cold War Culture / Michael K. Bourdaghs -- The Korean War and Disputed Memories : Kim Dal-su's Nihon no fuyu and the 1955 System / Ko Youngran, translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs -- Politics and Culture of Fascism / Ann Sherif -- Part II. Structures of Concealment : Cultural Anxieties. Cultural Resentment and Valorization in Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism : Nakamura Mitsuo's Literary History / Atsuko Ueda -- Small Hopes and a Terror : Katō Shūichi's and Mori Arimasa's 1955 Return from France / Doug Slaymaker -- Language and the People : The Amateur Writing Subject in Kindai bungaku, Shin Nihon bungaku, and Shisō no kagaku / Richi Sakakibara, translate by Atsuko Ueda -- Part III. Continuity and Discontinuity : Subjective Rupture and Dislocation. Temporalities of Ruin : Shiina Rinzō and the Subject of Tenkō / Seifi M. Lippit -- Literature at War's End : The Prosecution of Writers in Bungaku jihyō / James Dorsey -- From the God of Literature to War Criminal : The Media and the Shifting Image of Yokomitsu Riichi from Prewar and Wartime to the Postwar Era / Hirokazu Toeda, translated by Atsuko Ueda.
Summary
This collection examines literary criticism in postwar Japan. The contributors analyze the debates that occurred among Japanese intellectuals and highlight the various ideological forces that shaped the country's postwar trajectory.
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