Japanese fiction writers since World War II / editor, Van C. Gessel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gessel, Van C., Contributor.

Series:

Dictionary of literary biography Japanese fiction writers since World War II

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese fiction--Dictionaries--Bio-bibliography--20th century.

Japanese fiction.

Novelists, Japanese--Biography--Dictionaries--20th century.

Novelists, Japanese.

Japanese fiction--Dictionaries--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 370 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Detroit : Gale Research, 1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essays on post World War II Japanese fiction writers. Novelists who participated in literary activity after 1945 shaped the direction of postwar Japanese fiction. Freed from censorship, significant war literature was written in the decade after the conflict. Established writers were able to resume work interrupted by the war and demands to write propaganda. Female authors would emerge to define the new role of their gender in this post-war period.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph