| Description |
1 online resource. |
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text file |
| Series |
New studies in modern Japan
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New studies in modern Japan.
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| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Criticism -- Japan -- History -- 20th century.
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Criticism. |
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Japan. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Japanese literature -- 1945-1989 -- History and criticism.
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Japanese literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1945-1989 |
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1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Ueda, Atsuko, editor.
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Bourdaghs, Michael K., editor.
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Sakakibara, Richi, editor.
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Toeda, Hirokazu, 1964- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Literature among the ruins, 1945-1955 Lanham : Lexington Books, 2018 9780739180723 (DLC) 2018018921 |
| ISBN |
9780739180747 (Electronic) |
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0739180746 |
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9780739180723 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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073918072X |
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