Stories from the samurai fringe : Hayashi Fusao's proletarian short stories and the turn to ultranationalism in early Shōwa Japan / Jeff E. Long.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Long, Jeff E., author.

Series:

Cornell East Asia series ; 190.

Cornell East Asia series, 1050-2955 ; number 190

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hayashi, Fusao, 1903-1975--Political and social views.

Hayashi, Fusao.

Hayashi, Fusao, 1903-1975.

Authors, Japanese--Shōwa period, 1926-1989--Political and social views.

Authors, Japanese.

Political and social views.

Authors, Japanese--Shōwa period.

Physical Description:

ix, 299 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York, East Asia Program, Cornell University, [2018]

Contents:

Introduction : The Tenkō Experience, Hayashi Fusao, and Ideology

A Sullied Lineage in Modernizing Japan Hayashi Fusao's Marxist Turn in Memory

Humanism and Socialism Hayashi Fusao's Marxist Turn in Literature

To Inspire, Instruct, Entertain, and Reproach Hayashi Fusao's Proletarian Children's Stories as Literature and Politics

Politics and Literature Romanticizing Factory Workers, Student Radicals, and Labor Organizers in Hayashi Fusao's Proletarian Literature

Literature as Political Staging Ground Defining Factory Workers, Student Radicals, and Labor Organizers in Hayashi Fusao's Proletarian Literature

Departing the Movement and Enabling Tenkō Remembering Factory Workers, Student Radicals, and Labor Organizers in Hayashi Fusao's Proletarian Literature

Crossing the Threshold Hayashi Fusao's Tenkō Ideology and the Marxist Legacy of Dissent

Evoking the Idyllic Childhood Sun and Roses and Hayashi Fusao's Turn to Ultranationalism

Epilogue The Politics of Literature

The Politics of Tenkō Hayashi Fusao's Search for Authenticity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-279) and index.

British Library not licensed to copy 0.

ISBN:

9781939161703

1939161703

OCLC:

1042477335