The Impact of Ōe Kenzaburō's Fiction on Postwar Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Impact of Ōe Kenzaburō's Fiction on Postwar Japanese Literature write by Roman Rosenbaum. This book was released on 2004. The Impact of Ōe Kenzaburō's Fiction on Postwar Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Playing in the Shadows
Playing in the Shadows - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Playing in the Shadows write by William H Bridges. This book was released on 2020-02-17. Playing in the Shadows available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Playing in the Shadows considers the literature engendered by postwar Japanese authors’ robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African American literature. The Allied Occupation brought an influx of African American soldiers and culture to Japan, which catalyzed the writing of black characters into postwar Japanese literature. This same influx fostered the creation of organizations such as the Kokujin kenkyu no kai (The Japanese Association for Negro Studies) and literary endeavors such as the Kokujin bungaku zenshu (The Complete Anthology of Black Literature). This rich milieu sparked Japanese authors’—Nakagami Kenji and Oe Kenzaburo are two notable examples—interest in reading, interpreting, critiquing, and, ultimately, incorporating the tropes and techniques of African American literature and jazz performance into their own literary works. Such incorporation leads to literary works that are “black” not by virtue of their representations of black characters, but due to their investment in the possibility of technically and intertextually black Japanese literature. Will Bridges argues that these “fictions of race” provide visions of the way that postwar Japanese authors reimagine the ascription of race to bodies—be they bodies of literature, the body politic, or the human body itself.
Escape from the Wasteland
Escape from the Wasteland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Escape from the Wasteland write by Susan Jolliffe Napier. This book was released on 2020-10-26. Escape from the Wasteland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lurid depictions of sex and impotence, themes of emperor worship and violence, the use of realism and myth--these characterize the fiction of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. Susan Napier discovers surprising similarities as well as provocative dissimilarities in the work of two writers of radically different political orientations. Napier places Yukio’s and Kenzaburo’s fiction in the context of postwar Japanese political and social realities and, in a new preface for the paperback edition, reflects on each writer’s position in the tradition of Japanese literature.
The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo: A Study of Themes and Techniques
The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo: A Study of Themes and Techniques - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo: A Study of Themes and Techniques write by Michiko N. Wilson. This book was released on 2016-09-16. The Marginal World of Oe Kenzaburo: A Study of Themes and Techniques available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first full-length book devoted to Japan's 1994 Nobel Laureate, The Marginal World of Kenzaburo Ôe introduces the literary universe bursting with the explosive energies of Bakhtinian grotesque realism. In its center stands the "idiot son," a trickster and soulful healer, unknowingly thrown into the world of myth-making and history. The diverse voices of Ôe's characters resonate with one another within and between reinvented texts as the book's analysis flow into the very pores and veins of his masterful writing.
The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism, 1945–52
The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism, 1945–52 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism, 1945–52 write by Atsuko Ueda. This book was released on 2017-05-09. The Politics and Literature Debate in Postwar Japanese Criticism, 1945–52 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the wake of its defeat in World War II, 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 a number of important issues, including the meaning of the American occupation both inside and outside of Japan, the shifting semiotics of “literature” and “politics,” and the origins of crucial ideological weapons of the cultural Cold War. This collection features works by Japanese intellectuals written in the immediate postwar period. These writings—many appearing in English for the first time—offer explorations into the social, political, and philosophical debates among Japanese literary elites that shaped the country’s literary culture in the aftermath of defeat.
