Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan

ISBN-13: 9780367235796 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 246 str.

Irena Hayter; George T. Sipos; Mark Williams

Opis

This book approaches the concept of tenkō (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese experience in postwar debates.

Recenzje

"This is a welcome addition to scholarship on midcentury Japan. It brings a stellar group of historians and literary scholars together around an ambitious scholarly vision. The editors argue that the study of tenko¯—a juridical process of political conversion in the 1930s—offers a blueprint for interdisciplinary and comparative research into local expressions of the politics of affect, framed with reference to a theoretically nuanced concept of a global yet uneven capitalist modernity." - Adam Bronson, Durham University

Spis treści

Part 1: Conceptual Excursions  1. ‘Ideological Conversion as Historical Catachresis: Coming to Terms with tenkō’  2. ‘The Historical Origins of tenkō as an Intellectual and Social Issue: Marxism – Thought Control – Media’  3. ‘Tenkō in Korea: Revealing the Critical Threshold of Colonial Empire’  4. ‘Takeuchi Yoshimi and the Problem of tenkō’  Part 2: Literary Possibilities  5. ‘Literature and Affect: Proletarian Literature as Discovery’  6. ‘Common Tropes and Themes in Japan’s tenkō Literature’  7. "Doublethink" in Seisan bungaku Theory’  8. "Truth": The tenkō of Nakano Shigeharu and Hayashi Fusao’  9. ‘The Disjointed Narratives and Fractured Subjects of Takami Jun’  10. ‘Crossing the Void: Shimaki Kensaku’s Search for Meaning in "Leprosy" and "Blindness"  11. ‘The Tenkō of Anarchist Poets: Agrarian and Cinematic Latencies’  12. ‘A Proletarian Writer in the Showcase Window: The Shifting Representation of "the Masses" in Sata Ineko’s Kurenai’  13. ‘Mythic Reality, Battlefield Survival and Psycho-social Conversion in Yoshida Mitsuru’s The End of Battleship Yamato’