Recasting Red culture in proletarian Japan : childhood, Korea, and the historical avant-garde
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Recasting Red culture in proletarian Japan : childhood, Korea, and the historical avant-garde
University of Hawai'i Press, c2014
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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International Research Center for Japanese Studies Library
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Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
: cloth : alk. paper366.7 /12817
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction: recasting Red culture in proletarian Japan
- Fairy tales on the front line: reading childhood, class, and culture
- Writing on the wall: kabe shosetsu and the proletarian avant-garde
- Comrades-in-arms: Zainichi communists, revolutionary local color, and the antinomies of colonial representation
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Recasting Red Culture turns a critical eye on the influential proletarian cultural movement that flourished in 1920s and 1930s Japan. This was a diverse, cosmopolitan, and highly contested moment in Japanese history when notions of political egalitarianism were being translated into cultural practices specific to the Japanese experience. Both a political and historiographical intervention, the book offers a fascinating account of the passions-and antinomies- that animated one of the most admirable intellectual and cultural movements of Japan's twentieth century, and argues that proletarian literature, cultural workers, and institutions fundamentally enrich our understanding of Japanese culture.
What sustained the proletarian movement's faith in the idea that art and literature were indispensable to the task of revolution? How did the movement manage to enlist artists, teachers, and scientist into its ranks, and what sorts of contradictions arose in the merging of working-class and bourgeois cultures? Recasting Red Culture asks these and other questions as it historicizes proletarian Japan at the intersection of bourgeois aesthetics, radical politics, and a flourishing modern print culture.
Weaving over a dozen translated fairytales, poems, and short stories into his narrative, Samuel Perry offers a fundamentally new approach to studying revolutionary culture. By examining the margins of the proletarian cultural movement, Perry effectively redefines its center as he closely reads and historicizes proletarian children's culture, avant-garde Òwall fiction,Ó and a literature that bears witness to Japan's fraught relationship with its Korean colony. Along the way, he shows how proletarian culture opened up new critical spaces in the intersections of class, popular culture, childhood, gender, and ethnicity.
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