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Description:In the wake of the disaster of 1945--as Japan was forced to remake itself from "empire" to "nation" in the face of an uncertain global situation--literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue between scholars in Japan and North America as we rethink the historical and contemporary significance of such ongoing questions as the meaning of the American occupation both inside and outside of Japan, the shifting semiotics of "literature" and "politics," and the origins of what would become crucial ideological weapons of the cultural Cold War. The volume consists of three interrelated sections: "Foregrounding the Cold War," "Structures of Concealment: 'Cultural Anxieties, '" and "Continuity and Discontinuity: Subjective Rupture and Dislocation." One way or another, the essays address the process through which new "Japan" was created in the postwar present, which signified an attempt to criticize and reevaluate the past. Examining postwar discourse from various angles, the essays highlight the manner in which anxieties of the future were projected onto the construction of the past, which manifest in varying disavowals and structures of concealment.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Literature among the Ruins, 1945–1955: Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism (New Studies in Modern Japan). To get started finding Literature among the Ruins, 1945–1955: Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism (New Studies in Modern Japan), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the wake of the disaster of 1945--as Japan was forced to remake itself from "empire" to "nation" in the face of an uncertain global situation--literature and literary criticism emerged as highly contested sites. Today, this remarkable period holds rich potential for opening new dialogue between scholars in Japan and North America as we rethink the historical and contemporary significance of such ongoing questions as the meaning of the American occupation both inside and outside of Japan, the shifting semiotics of "literature" and "politics," and the origins of what would become crucial ideological weapons of the cultural Cold War. The volume consists of three interrelated sections: "Foregrounding the Cold War," "Structures of Concealment: 'Cultural Anxieties, '" and "Continuity and Discontinuity: Subjective Rupture and Dislocation." One way or another, the essays address the process through which new "Japan" was created in the postwar present, which signified an attempt to criticize and reevaluate the past. Examining postwar discourse from various angles, the essays highlight the manner in which anxieties of the future were projected onto the construction of the past, which manifest in varying disavowals and structures of concealment.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Literature among the Ruins, 1945–1955: Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism (New Studies in Modern Japan). To get started finding Literature among the Ruins, 1945–1955: Postwar Japanese Literary Criticism (New Studies in Modern Japan), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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