Literature Among the Ruins, 19451955 - Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Atsuko Ueda, Richi Sakakibara, Michael K. Bourdaghs, and Hirokazu Toeda
Part I: Foregrounding the Cold War
Chapter 1: Early Freeze Warning: The Politics and Literature Debate as Cold War Culture, Michael K. Bourdaghs
Chapter 2: The Korean War and Disputed Memories: Kim Dal-su's Nihon no fuyu and the 1955 System, Ko Youngran, translated by Michael K. Bourdaghs
Chapter 3: Politics and Culture of Fascism, Ann Sherif
Part II: Structures of Concealment: Cultural Anxieties
Chapter 4: Cultural Resentment and Valorization in Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism: Nakamura Mitsuo's Literary History, Atsuko Ueda
Chapter 5: Small Hopes and a Terror: Kato Shuichi's and Mori Arimasa's 1955 Return from France, Doug Slaymaker
Chapter 6: Language and the People: The Amateur Writing Subject in Kindai bungaku, Shin Nihon bungaku, and Shiso no kagaku, Richi Sakakibara, translated by Atsuko Ueda
Part III: Continuity and Discontinuity: Subjective Rupture and Dislocation
Chapter 7: Temporalities of Ruin: Shii

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Michael K. Bourdaghs is Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.Richi Sakakibara is professor of modern Japanese literature at Waseda University.Hirokazu Toeda is professor of modern Japanese literature at Waseda University.Michael K. Bourdaghs is Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.Richi Sakakibara is professor of modern Japanese literature at Waseda University.Doug Slaymaker is professor of Japanese at the University of Kentucky.Hirokazu Toeda is professor of modern Japanese literature at Waseda University.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Atsuko Bourdaghs Ueda
• Mitarbeit: Michael K Bourdaghs (Herausgeber), Michael K. Bourdaghs (Herausgeber), Bourdaghs Michael K. (Herausgeber), Richi Sakakibara (Herausgeber), Hirokazu Toeda (Herausgeber), Atsuko Ueda (Herausgeber), Ueda Atsuko (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 29.06.2020
• EAN: 9780739180730
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8073-0
• Seiten: 208
• Serie: New Studies in Modern Japan
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Sonstige Sprachen / Sonstige Literaturen; Japan, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Japanese, South East Asia, Literature: history & criticism, Asian History, Literature: history and criticism