For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature

Name: For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature
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ISBN: 9780226068367

ISBN-10: 0226068366

ISBN-13: 9780226068367

Edition: 2015

Authors: Norma Field, Heather Bowen-Struyk

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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…

Book details

List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/14/2016
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 488
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.95" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.606