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Enduring Postwar: Yasuoka Shotaro and Literary Memory in Japan
Contributor(s): Heitzman, Kendall (Author)

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 ISBN: 0826522564     ISBN-13: 9780826522566
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
OUR PRICE: $26.20  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: December 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese
- Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century
- Literary Criticism | Subjects & Themes - Historical Events
Dewey: 895.635
LCCN: 2019006668
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" L (0.75 lbs) 240 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Japanese
- Chronological Period - 20th Century
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Yasuoka Shōtarō (1920-2013) was perfectly situated to become Japan's premier chronicler of the Showa period (1926-89). Over fifty years as a writer, Yasuoka produced stories, novels, plays, and essays, as well as monumental histories that connected his own life to those of his ancestors. He was also the only major Japanese writer to live in the American South during the Civil Rights Movement, when he spent most of an academic year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In 1977, he translated Alex Haley's Roots into Japanese.

For a long period, Yasuoka was at the center of the Japanese literary establishment, serving on prize committees and winning the major literary prizes of the era: the Akutagawa, the Noma, the Yomiuri, and the Kawabata. But what makes Yasuoka fascinating as a writer is the way that he consciously, deliberately resisted accepted narratives of modern Japanese history through his approach to personal and collective memory.

In Enduring Postwar, the first literary and biographical study of Yasuoka in English, Kendall Heitzman explores the element of memory in Yasuoka's work in the context of his life and evolving understanding of postwar Japan.

Contributor Bio(s): Heitzman, Kendall: - Kendall Heitzman is an associate professor of Japanese literature and culture at the University of Iowa. He is the author of a number of articles on contemporary Japanese literature and has translated into English stories and essays by a number of prominent contemporary Japanese writers.
 
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