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Kotan Chronicles: Selected Poems 1928-1943

Kotan Chronicles: Selected Poems 1928-1943

Sarashina, Genzō
Willems, Nadine

Hardcover

General PoetrySocial Movements

ISBN10: 4907359209
ISBN13: 9784907359201
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jun 29 2017
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

In Kotan Chronicles, Japanese author and activist Genzō Sarashina shares his experience as a second-generation settler in Hokkaido during the 1920s and 1930s. Many of his poems document his encounters with the Ainu, the indigenous people of the island, in an era where the traditional world of the kotan, or Ainu village, was slowly disappearing. Sarashina's distinctive voice probes the ambiguities of the interaction between the Ainu and the Japanese, while depicting both the beauty of Hokkaido's landscape and the back-breaking work required of settlers and Ainu alike to survive there in an era of economic hardship. Kotan Chronicles constitutes an exceptional witness of its times.

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