Title: The politics and literature debate in postwar Japanese criticism, 1945-52 /
Authors: Ueda, Atsuko; Bourdaghs, Michael K.; Sakakibara, Richi,; Toeda, Hirokazu, 1964-
Year: 2017
Subjects: Criticism Japan History.; Politics and literature Japan History
Contents: I. Politics and Literature Debate -- 1. Art, History, Humanity / Honda Shugo -- 2. Second Youth / Ara Masahito -- 3. Who Are the People? / Ara Masahito -- 4. Responsibility of Writers: A Roundtable Discussion / Honda Shugo -- 5. Antithesis / Hirano Ken -- 6. Establishing Criteria / Hirano Ken -- 7. Politics and Literature I / Hirano Ken -- 8. Humanity of Criticism I: Concerning Hirano Ken and Ara / Masahito Nakano Shigeharu -- 9. What Is the "Primacy of Politics"? / Hirano Ken -- 10. Politics and Literature II / Hirano Ken -- 11. Humanity of Criticism II: On the Literary Reaction, et Cetera / Nakano Shigeharu -- II. Contemporaneous Essays -- 12. Rationed Freedom / Kawakami Tetsutaro -- 13. Role of the Writer as National Citizen / Nakano Shigeharu -- 14. Social Foundations of a New Japanese Literature / Kurahara Korehito -- 15. Inquiry into War Responsibility in Literature / Odagiri Hideo -- 16. Subjectivity in the Creation of a New Literature: Thoughts for a New Stage / Odagiri Hideo -- 17. Founding Words: A Manifesto / Sasaki Kiichi -- 18. On Wifely Literature / Hirano Ken -- 19. On the New Stars and Violets School / Kato Shuichi -- 20. Logic of Delirium / Hanada Kiyoteru -- 21. Chart of the Heavenly Bodies: On Copernicus / Hanada Kiyoteru -- III. Afterlives of the Debate -- 22. Specter of the "Censorship System": Record of the Chatterley Trial / Nakamura Mitsuo -- 23. Ideology of the Modern and the Problem of the Ethnic Nation / Takeuchi Yoshimi -- 24. Literature under the Occupation / Nakamura Mitsuo.