Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism

ISBN-13: 9781138008663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015

Curtis Anderson Gayle

Opis

Exploring the historical writings of postwar Japanese Marxists, this book shows how they developed ideas of radical nationalism, creating a sphere of radical political action against the state, the American occupation and global capital.

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.