Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9780415297394 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 208 str.

Curtis Anderson Gayle; An Gayle Curtis

Opis

This work explores the historical writings of postwar Japanese Marxists - who were, and who continue to be, surprisingly numerous in the Japanese academic world. It shows how they developed in their historical writing ideas of radical nationalism, which accepted presupposed ideas of Japan's ethnic homogeneity, but which they saw as a revolutionary subject, creating a sphere of radical political action against the state, the American Occupation and global capital. It compares this approach in both prewar and postwar Marxist historiography, showing that in the postwar period ideas were more elaborate, and put much more emphasis on national education and social mobilization. It also shows how these early postwar discourses have made their way into contemporary ethnic nationalism and revisionism in Japan today. The book's analysis should appeal not just to historians of Japan, but also to those interested in nationalism and Marxism more generally.

Recenzje

'Gayle has done a great service to scholarship on postwar Japan by closely examining a discourse that had such a formative impact on probaly the most dominant school of thought in postwar academic historiography, namely Marxism.' - Pacific Affairs

Spis treści

Acknowledgments 1. National imagery and international Marxism 2. Marxist History and the ethnic nation during the 1930's 3. Rebuilding Marxist history and rethinking the nation: 1945-1950 4. Marxist's history search for new ground: 1948-1950 5. Marxist history and the 'Minzoku Faction': T^oma Seita, Matsumoto Shinpachir^o and Ishimoda Sh^o 6. Minzoku ishiki and modernisation: Eguchi Bokur^o, Suzuki Shir^o, Inoue Kiyoshi and T^oyama Shigeki 7. Desire, mobilisation and internationalism 8. National awakening and postwar nationalism Index

O autorze

Curtis Anderson Gayle holds a D.Phil in Japanese history and political thought from Kyoto University and specializes in modern Japanese intellectual history, nationalism, and international relations.