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The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism, 1945-52
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2017
Summary
In the wake of its defeat in World War II, 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 a number of important issues, including the meaning of the American occupation both inside and outside of Japan, the shifting semiotics of “literature” and “politics,” and the origins of crucial ideological weapons of the cultural Cold War.
This collection features works by Japanese intellectuals written in the immediate postwar period. These writings—many appearing in English for the first time—offer explorations into the social, political, and philosophical debates among Japanese literary elites that shaped the country’s literary culture in the aftermath of defeat.
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Copyright year
2017
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8075-4
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8077-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
322
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 Art, History, Humanity No access
2 Second Youth No access
3 Who Are the People? No access
4 The Responsibility of Writers No access
5 An Antithesis No access
6 Establishing Criteria No access
7 Politics and Literature I No access
8 The Humanity of Criticism I No access
9 What Is the “Primacy of Politics”? No access
10 Politics and Literature II No access
11 The Humanity of Criticism II No access
12 Rationed Freedom No access
13 The Role of the Writer as National Citizen No access
14 The Social Foundations of a New Japanese Literature No access
15 An Inquiry into War Responsibility in Literature No access
16 Subjectivity in the Creation of a New Literature No access
17 Founding Words No access
18 On Wifely Literature No access
19 On the New Stars and Violets School No access
20 The Logic of Delirium No access
21 A Chart of the Heavenly Bodies No access
22 The Specter of the “Censorship System” No access
23 The Ideology of the Modern and the Problem of the Ethnic Nation No access
24 Literature under the Occupation No access
Glossary No access Pages 269 - 312
Index No access Pages 313 - 316
About the Editors and Authors No access Pages 317 - 322
