Japan's Postwar

ISBN-13: 9780415605380 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 320 str.

Michael Lucken; Anne Bayard-Sakai; Emmanuel Lozerand

Opis

Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting 'postwar' to be the years directly proceeding World War II. However, the contributors to this book take a unique approach to the concept of the postwar period and treat it as a network of time periods from the contemporary period.

Recenzje

"Arthur Stockwin deserves commendation on his fine and eminently readable translation of the volume from the original French... The authors represented here enrich our knowledge on a number of fronts by drawing links between war and after, and thereby suggest different understandings and approaches of how to conceptualise and periodise postwar Japan." - Erik Ropers, Towson University; Japanese Studies (Australia), vol. 32, no. 4, December 2012.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: The Multiplicity of Chronologies, or The Postwar as Focus  1. The Postwar as Political Paradigm  2. The Evolution of the Concept of ‘Postwar Education’  Part 2: The Intellectuals Facing the Future  3. Maruyama Masao, From Autonomy to Pacifism  4. At the Time, after the Defeat: Sakaguchi Ango, Takeda Taijun, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1946-1948)  5. Yasuoka Masahiro, a Conservative Vision of the Postwar  Part 3: How Should One Speak? The Poets’ Response  6. ‘Genzai’, Here and Now  7. Speaking Silence: The Poetry of Ishihara Yoshirō  Part 4: Forgetting, Commemoration, Perversion: The Regimes of Memory  8. The Literary Institution and the Case of the Akutagawa Prize  9. The ‘Statue for Peace’ in Nagasaki  10. Repression of History and Engagement of the Body  Part 5: Complex Experiences: Society on the Road to Democracy  11. The ‘Red Purges’ and the Democratisation of Japan, 1949-196212 Labour Relations during the Years of High Growth  13. The Postwar for Workers’ Unionism and Movements Against Industrial Pollution

O autorze

Michael Lucken is Professor at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France.

Anne Bayard-Sakai is Professor and literary specialist at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France.

Emmanuel Lozerand is Professor of Japanese language and literature at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France.