Stories from the Samurai Fringe: Hayashi Fusao's Proletarian Short Stories and the Turn to Ultranationalism in Early Shōwa Japan

by Jeff E. Long

Book Overview

A cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusao's (1903-1975) tenkō experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenkō (ideological conversion) through a close reading of his proletarian short stories. Tracing Hayashi's move from "romanticizing" to "defining" to "remembering" the proletarian literature movement and its participants in his proletarian fiction, this study argues for a far more personal and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1939161908
• ISBN13: 9781939161901
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher