Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan -

Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan

Buch | Hardcover
246 Seiten
2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-23579-6 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
This book approaches the concept of tenkō (political conversion) as a response to the global crisis of interwar modernity, as opposed to a distinctly Japanese experience in postwar debates.

Tenkō connotes the expressions of ideological conversion performed by members of the Japanese Communist Party, starting in 1933, whereby they renounced Marxism and expressed support for Japan’s imperial expansion on the continent. Although tenkō has a significant presence in Japan’s postwar intellectual and literary histories, this contributed volume is one of the first in Englishm language scholarship to approach the phenomenon. International perspectives from both established and early career scholars show tenkō as inseparable from the global politics of empire, deeply marked by an age of mechanical reproduction, mediatization and the manipulation of language. Chapters draw on a wide range of interdisciplinary methodologies, from political theory and intellectual history to literary studies. In this way, tenkō is explored through new conceptual and analytical frameworks, including questions of gender and the role of affect in politics, implications that render the phenomenon distinctly relevant to the contemporary moment.

Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan will prove a valuable resource to students and scholars of Japanese and East Asian history, literature and politics.

Irena Hayter is Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research brings together domains normally kept apart: literature, visual studies, consumer culture. The overarching concern is with the perceptual changes of the interwar years in Japan and their urban and technological contexts. Articles in positions: asia critique, Japanese Language and Literature and Japan Forum, amongst others, have explored the effects of these changes not only on cultural practices, but also on the politico-ideological domain. Her current monograph project is a media-historical investigation of urban spectacle, technologies of image commodification and literary modernism in interwar Japan. George T. Sipos is Associate Professor at the West University of Timisoara, in Romania, where he teaches Japanese literature, language and culture. His research focuses on modern and contemporary Japanese society and literature from a transcultural perspective, in particular on comparative perspectives on Japan's modernity, modern nation state, activism, and resistance against state oppression. His recent publications include 'Journeys of Political Self-Discovery: The Writings of Miyamoto Yuriko and Panait Istrati from late 1920s Soviet Russia' (Human and Social Studies, 2018), and book chapters on the works of Mishima Yukio (in Mishima Monogatari: Un samurai delle arti, 2020), Kawabata Yasunari and Akutagawa Ryūnosuke (in□ Critical Insights: Modern Japanese Literature, 2017). He is currently preparing his first single authored book on Japan's tenkō□ and tenkō □literature, due to be published in 2021 by Routledge. Mark Williams is Vice President for International Academic Exchange at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan. Until 2017, he was Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He received his PhD in Japanese Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He has published widely in both English and Japanese – on themes such as Christianity and Japan, the literature of Endō Shūsaku and literary representations of the Asia Pacific War.

Part 1: Conceptual Excursions 1. ‘Ideological Conversion as Historical Catachresis: Coming to Terms with tenkō’ 2. ‘The Historical Origins of tenkō as an Intellectual and Social Issue: Marxism – Thought Control – Media’ 3. ‘Tenkō in Korea: Revealing the Critical Threshold of Colonial Empire’ 4. ‘Takeuchi Yoshimi and the Problem of tenkō’ Part 2: Literary Possibilities 5. ‘Literature and Affect: Proletarian Literature as Discovery’ 6. ‘Common Tropes and Themes in Japan’s tenkō Literature’ 7. "Doublethink" in Seisan bungaku Theory’ 8. "Truth": The tenkō of Nakano Shigeharu and Hayashi Fusao’ 9. ‘The Disjointed Narratives and Fractured Subjects of Takami Jun’ 10. ‘Crossing the Void: Shimaki Kensaku’s Search for Meaning in "Leprosy" and "Blindness" 11. ‘The Tenkō of Anarchist Poets: Agrarian and Cinematic Latencies’ 12. ‘A Proletarian Writer in the Showcase Window: The Shifting Representation of "the Masses" in Sata Ineko’s Kurenai’ 13. ‘Mythic Reality, Battlefield Survival and Psycho-social Conversion in Yoshida Mitsuru’s The End of Battleship Yamato’

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
Zusatzinfo 1 Tables, black and white; 4 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-367-23579-X / 036723579X
ISBN-13 978-0-367-23579-6 / 9780367235796
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