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Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry Volume 17
Contributor(s): Rabson, Steve (Author)

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 ISBN: 0939512777     ISBN-13: 9780939512775
Publisher: U of M Center for Japanese Studies
OUR PRICE: $38.80  

Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: February 1998
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry
- Literary Criticism | Asian - General
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
Dewey: 895.614
LCCN: 96048385
Series: Michigan Monograph Japanese Studies
Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.28" W x 9.29" L (1.27 lbs) 300 pages
 
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The subject of modern Japanese poetry written in support of the nation's wars, long considered a taboo in postwar literary circles, is explored here in historical and cultural context. Steve Rabson presents translations and explications of works by poets who wrote both for and against war, providing background essential for understanding why some of Japan's most famous writers swung 180 degrees to support or oppose war at different times in their careers. Through examples from American and British poetry, Rabson also shows that this phenomenon of poets changing their views is by no means exclusive to Japan. Exposing the efforts of some Japanese writers after 1945 to conceal or revise their poetry written during World War II, the author discusses assertions by literary critics and historians that poets bear a special "war responsibility."
 
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