Stories From The Samurai Fringe : Hayashi Fusao's Proletarian Short Stories And The Turn To Ultranationalism In Early Showa Japan

A cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusa's (1903-1975) tenko experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenko (ideological conversion) through a close reading of his proletarian short stories. Tracing Hayashi's move from "romanticizing"to "defining"to "remembering" the proletarian literature movement and its participants in his proletarian fiction, this study argues for a far more personal and political rationale for Hayashi's subsequent turn to ultranationalism. Stories from the Samurai Fringe concludes with a consideration of Hayashi's tenko experience, first, within the historiographical context of the early Showa years (1926-1937), and then within the trans-war setting of Hayashi's reemergence as a proponent of wartime nationalism.

• | Author: Jeff E. Long
• | Publisher: Cornell East Asia Series
• | Publication Date: Mar 31, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 299 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1939161908
• | ISBN-13: 9781939161901