Research Catalog

Title

For dignity, justice, and revolution : an anthology of Japanese proletarian literature / edited by Heather Bowen-Struyk and Norma Field.

Publication

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bowen-Struyk, Heather, 1971-
• Field, Norma, 1947-

Description

430 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Japanese prose literature
• Working class
• Short stories, Japanese
• Japanese prose literature > 20th century > History and criticism
• 1900 - 1999
• Proletariat in literature
• Translations
• Working class > Japan > Fiction
• Japan
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Fiction
• Short stories, Japanese > 20th century > Translations into English

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Fiction.
• Translations.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-428).

Contents

Chapter 1. The personal is the political. Comrade Taguchi's sorrow / Kobayashi Takiji -- Red / Nakamoto Takako -- The mother / Wakasugi Toriko -- A statement of my views in response to Mr. Masamune Hakuchō / Aono Suekichi -- A chronology of my life / Kobayashi Takiji -- Chapter 2. Labor and literature. The prostitute / Hayama Yoshiki -- Apples / Hayashi Fusao -- Prayer / Sata Ineko -- Natural growth and purposeful consciousness / Aono Suekichi -- Going on a field trip? / Nakamoto Takako -- Chapter 3. The question of realism. March 15, 1928 / Kobayashi Takiji -- The linesmen / Kataoka Teppei -- The path to proletarian realism / Kurahara Korehito -- On the tendency of proletarian works to become formulaic / Hirabayashi Taiko -- Covering over the essence / Sata Ineko -- Chapter 4. Children. Hell / Kaji Wataru -- Death of a cricket / Murayama Kazuko -- Elephant and mouse / Murayama Kazuko ; Tetsu's story; Or, a Rope around whose neck? / Nakano Shigeharu -- The question of "reality" and "unreality" in children's stories / Makimoto Kusurō -- Chapter 5. Art as a weapon. Leafleting / Sata Ineko -- Letter / Kobayashi Takiji -- Shawl / Tokunaga Sunao -- The bulletin board and the wall story / Yi Tong-gyu -- A farmer among farmers / Hosono Kōjirō -- To Qiqihar / Kuroshima Denji -- A day at the factory / Nagano Kayo -- Our own literature course (1) : a guide to writing literary reportage / Yamada Seizaburō -- On wall stories and "short" short stories : a new approach to proletarian literature / Kobayashi Takiji -- A guide to fiction writing : how to write stories / Kobayashi Takiji -- The achievements of the creative writing movement : an assessment of works to date / Tokunaga Sunao -- Chapter 6. Anti-imperialism and internationalism. Another battlefront / Matsuda Tokiko -- Hell of the starving / Chang Hyǒk-chu -- On antiwar literature / Kuroshima Denji -- Chapter 7. Repression, recantation, and socialist realism. Midnight sun / Murayama Tomoyoshi -- The breast / Miyamoto Yuriko -- Negative realism : one direction for proletarian literature / Kawaguchi Hiroshi -- Proletarian realism and "socialist realism" : a study of literary method (1) / Moriyama Kei -- Socialist realism or XXX realism? / Kim Tu-yong -- Buds that survive winter / Miyamoto Yuriko.

Call Number

JFE 16-277

ISBN

• 9780226068367
• 0226068366
• 9780226068374
• 0226068374
• 9780226034782 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2015017707

OCLC

908660899

Title

For dignity, justice, and revolution : an anthology of Japanese proletarian literature / edited by Heather Bowen-Struyk and Norma Field.

Publisher

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-428).

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Added Author

Bowen-Struyk, Heather, 1971- editor.

Field, Norma, 1947- editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-277