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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. 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. 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 ...
