For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution
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20th century
anthology
anti-imperialism
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asia
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expansion
factory work
family
fiction
imperialism
inequality
injustice
internationalism
japan
japanese
labor
leftism
leftist politics
literary studies
modernization
oppression
personal
political
poverty
proletarian literature
proletariat
realism
reality
repression
revolution
short stories
socialism
socialist
Product details
- ISBN 9780226068367
- Weight: 737g
- Dimensions: 17 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jan 2016
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Fiction created by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization, dramatic inequality, and imperial expansion. In Japan, literary youth, men and women, sought to turn their imaginations and craft to tackling the ensuing injustices, with results that captured both middle-class and worker-farmer readers. This anthology is a landmark introduction to Japanese proletarian literature from that period. Contextualized by introductory essays, forty expertly translated stories touch on topics like perilous factories, predatory bosses, ethnic discrimination, and the myriad indignities of poverty. Together, they show how even intensely personal issues form a pattern of oppression. Fostering labor consciousness as part of an international leftist arts movement, these writers, lovers of literature, were also challenging the institution of modern literature itself. This anthology demonstrates the vitality of the "red decade" long buried in modern Japanese literary history.
Heather Bowen-Struyk is the coeditor of Red Love Across the Pacific and the guest editor for Proletarian Arts in East Asia, a special edition of the journal positions. Norma Field retired in 2011 as the Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago. Her books include In the Realm of a Dying Emperor.
