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Literature among the Ruins, 1945-1955: Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism

Literature among the Ruins, 1945-1955: Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism

Ueda, Atsuko
Bourdaghs, Michael K.
Sakakibara, Richi

Paperback

Series: New Studies in Modern Japan

Literary CriticismSoutheast Asian History

ISBN10: 0739180738
ISBN13: 9780739180730
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 29 2020
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.47 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In the wake of the disaster of 1945--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 such ongoing questions as the meaning of the American occupation both inside and outside of Japan, the shifting semiotics of literature and politics, and the origins of what would become crucial ideological weapons of the cultural Cold War.

The volume consists of three interrelated sections: Foregrounding the Cold War, Structures of Concealment: 'Cultural Anxieties, ' and Continuity and Discontinuity: Subjective Rupture and Dislocation. One way or another, the essays address the process through which new Japan was created in the postwar present, which signified an attempt to criticize and reevaluate the past. Examining postwar discourse from various angles, the essays highlight the manner in which anxieties of the future were projected onto the construction of the past, which manifest in varying disavowals and structures of concealment.

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