Japan's Postwar

Herausgeber: Lucken, Michael; Lozerand, Emmanuel; Bayard-Sakai, Anne

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Produktbeschreibung

Historical surveys of postwar Japan are usually established on the grounds that the era is already over, interpreting "postwar" to be the years directly proceeding World War II. However, the contributors to this book take a unique approach to the concept of the postwar period and treat it as a network of historical time periods from the contemporary period, connecting these time capsules to the war to which they are inextricably linked. The book also takes a very interdisciplinary approach to examining post-war Japan and includes chapters centred around subjects as diverse as politics, poetry, philosophy, economics and art which serve to fill the blanks in the collective cultural memory that historical narratives leave behind. As such Japan's Post-War will appeal to students and scholars of Japanese Studies and Modern Japanese History as well as historians studying the world after 1945.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9781138016989
• ISBN-10: 1138016985
• Artikelnr.: 40050054

Autorenporträt

Michael Lucken is Professor at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France. Anne Bayard-Sakai is Professor and literary specialist at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France. Emmanuel Lozerand is Professor of Japanese language and literature at Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: The Multiplicity of Chronologies, or The Postwar as
Focus 1. The Postwar as Political Paradigm 2. The Evolution of the Concept
of 'Postwar Education' Part 2: The Intellectuals Facing the Future 3.
Maruyama Masao, From Autonomy to Pacifism 4. At the Time, after the Defeat:
Sakaguchi Ango, Takeda Taijun, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1946-1948) 5. Yasuoka
Masahiro, a Conservative Vision of the Postwar Part 3: How Should One
Speak? The Poets' Response 6. 'Genzai', Here and Now 7. Speaking Silence:
The Poetry of Ishihara Yoshir¿ Part 4: Forgetting, Commemoration,
Perversion: The Regimes of Memory 8. The Literary Institution and the Case
of the Akutagawa Prize 9. The 'Statue for Peace' in Nagasaki 10. Repression
of History and Engagement of the Body Part 5: Complex Experiences: Society
on the Road to Democracy 11. The 'Red Purges' and the Democratisation of
Japan, 1949-196212 Labour Relations during the Years of High Growth 13. The
Postwar for Workers' Unionism and Movements Against Industrial Pollution