The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Volume 2: 1945 to the Present

by Junzo Shono, Yumiko Kurahashi, Kōbō Abe, et al.

Book Overview

In Volume 2 of Columbia's comprehensive anthology of modern Japanese literature, thoughtfully selected and carefully translated readings portray the vast changes that have transformed Japanese culture since the end of the Pacific War. Beginning with the Allied Occupation in 1945 and concluding with the early twenty-first century, these stories, poems, plays, and essays reflect Japan's heady transition from poverty to prosperity, its struggle with...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231138040
• ISBN13: 9780231138048
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 864 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 7.3" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher