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Literature among the Ruins, 1945-1955

Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism
New Studies in Modern Japan

von: Atsuko Ueda, Michael K. Bourdaghs, Richi Sakakibara, Hirokazu Toeda, James Dorsey, Ko Youngran, Seiji M. Lippit, Ann Sherif, Doug Slaymaker
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Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	07.05.2018
ISBN/EAN:	9780739180747
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	202

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Titelbeschreibung

In the wake of the disaster of 1945—as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation—literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue between scholars in Japan and North America as we rethink the historical and contemporary significance of such ongoing questions as the meaning of the American occupation both inside and outside of Japan, the shifting semiotics of “literature” and “politics,” and the origins of what would become crucial ideological weapons of the cultural Cold War.
 
 
The volume consists of three interrelated sections: “Foregrounding the Cold War,” “Structures of Concealment: ‘Cultural Anxieties,’” and “Continuity and Discontinuity: Subjective Rupture and Dislocation.” One way or another, the essays address the process through which new “Japan” was created in the postwar present, which signified an attempt to criticize and reevaluate the past. Examining postwar discourse from various angles, the essays highlight the manner in which anxieties of the future were projected onto the construction of the past, which manifest in varying disavowals and structures of concealment.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

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: Katō Shūichi’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 Shisō no kagaku, Richi Sakakibara, translated by Atsuko Ueda
 
Part III: Continuity and Discontinuity: Subjective Rupture and Dislocation
 
Chapter 7: Temporalities of Ruin: Shiina Rinzō and the Subject of Tenkō, Seiji M. Lippit
 
Chapter 8: Literature at War’s End: The Prosecution of Writers in Bungaku jihyō, James Dorsey
 
Chapter 9: 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, Toeda Hirokazu, translated by Atsuko Ueda

Autorenportrait

Atsuko Ueda is associate professor of modern Japanese literature at Princeton 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. Hirokazu Toeda is professor of modern Japanese literature at Waseda University.