Stories from the Samurai Fringe
Hayashi Fusao's Proletarian Short Stories and the Turn to Ultranationalism in Early Shōwa Japan
A cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusa's (1903-1975) tenko experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenko (ideological conversion) through a close reading of his proletarian short stories. Les mer
A cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusa's (1903-1975) tenko experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenko (ideological conversion) through a close reading of his proletarian short stories. Tracing Hayashi's move from "romanticizing"to "defining"to "remembering" the proletarian literature movement and its participants in his proletarian fiction, this study argues for a far more personal and political rationale for Hayashi's subsequent turn to ultranationalism. Stories from the Samurai Fringe concludes with a consideration of Hayashi's tenko experience, first, within the historiographical context of the early Showa years (1926-1937), and then within the trans-war setting of Hayashi's reemergence as a proponent of wartime nationalism.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Cornell University East Asia Program
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 316
- ISBN
- 9781939161703
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm