Stories from the Samurai Fringe
Author | : Jeff E. Long |
Publisher | : Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2018 |
ISBN-10 | : 1939161908 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781939161901 |
Rating | : 4/5 (901 Downloads) |
Download or read book Stories from the Samurai Fringe written by Jeff E. Long and published by Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series. This book was released on 2018 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusa's (1903-1975) tenkō experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenkō (ideological conversion) through a close reading of his proletarian short stories. Tracing Hayashi's move from "romanticizing"to "defining"to "remembering" the proletarian literature movement and its participants in his proletarian fiction, this study argues for a far more personal and political rationale for Hayashi's subsequent turn to ultranationalism. Stories from the Samurai Fringe concludes with a consideration of Hayashi's tenkō experience, first, within the historiographical context of the early Showa years (1926-1937), and then within the trans-war setting of Hayashi's reemergence as a proponent of wartime nationalism.