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This book examines the transnational circulation of knowledge between Russia and Japan from the early Meiji era to the present day, reconfiguring the East-West paradigm both in terms of socio-geographical divides and cultural and political tensions within both cultures.
Featuring chapters from the fields of literature, history, philosophy, film, and social and political thought, the case studies give interdisciplinary examples of the ways in which Russian-Japanese intellectual relations offer cross-cultural interconnections and emphasize the global circulation of ideas while undermining reductive national constructs. By switching the perspective on the cultural history from the grand narratives of modernization and Westernization to that of individual and local case studies of agency, engagement, and creativity on the ground, the book uncovers a much more diverse, fluid, and complex landscape of intellectual history, rich in alternative contexts for understanding the past and embracing the future.
Revealing not only the historical points of transfer of ideas, but also the textual and disciplinary forms of this transfer, this book will appeal to students and scholars of the culture, literature, society and history of both Japan and Russia.
List of contents
Introduction. Transnational Comparison and Epistemology of Circulation 1. "like the arc of the Northern Lights": Japan in Russia's Asian Constellations 2. From Commune to Co-operation: Global Circuits and the Heiminsha Translation of
The Conquest of Bread 3. Wests: The Logogenic Travels of Inoue Yasushi's Writings on the Silk Road 4.5.
I Saw a Pale Horse: Hayashi Fumiko, Boris Savinkov, and the Abjection of Revolution 6.Lenin's Letter, the Japanese Writer, and the Soviet Ambassador: A Re-Reading of Tenk¿ Short Story "The House in the Village" by Nakano Shigeharu 7. "Each Unhappy in Its Own Way": Afterlives of Tolstoy's
Resurrection in Asian Drama and Film 8. "To Leave Contradictions as They Are": Reconfiguring the Tolstoyan Network of Tanabe Hajime's
Philosophy as Metanoetics 9. The Three Trees at Midzuho: Konstantin Gaponenko, Tolstoyan Humanism, and Russian-Japanese-Korean Triangulation in
Tragedy of Midzuho Village
About the author
Olga V. Solovieva is Researcher in Comparative and Slavonic Literatures at the Center of Excellence-Interacting Minds, Societies, Environments at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torü, Poland.
