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Literature among the Ruins, 1945-1955 - Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism (Paperback)
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Literature among the Ruins, 1945-1955 - Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism (Paperback)
Series: New Studies in Modern Japan
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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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