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Juurmaa, Nora. "De Matsui Tarô (1917-2017), écrivain brésilien d’origine japonaise, à Andreï Ivanov (1971- ), écrivain d’origine russe vivant en Estonie : conception de la "mort" dans la littérature de deux communautés issues des migrations, de 1970 à 2010 pour la communauté nippo-brésilienne et de 2008 à 2016 pour la communauté russophone d’Estonie." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSE3027.
Full textThe present study proposes an analysis of the function of “death” in the literary fiction of MATSUI Tarô (1917-2017), a leading author in Brazilian Japanese-language literature. A comparison is carried out with the oeuvre of Andrei IVANOV (1971- ), a key author in Estonian Russian-language literature. This thesis is built around Michel Picard’s argument, which proposes that in the literary field, “when we speak about death, we always speak about something else”: “Firstly because the core of the matter is to circumvent the insurmountable difficulty of temporalizing [materialising] the timeless [immaterial] moment of death, but mostly because of the actual preoccupations […] that certainly only concern life. These [preoccupations] themselves have clearly revealed that they [are] no more than symptoms, metaphors of some sort; that the crux of the matter, in this topos as well as each time that “death” is concerned, is unconscious.”After examining the historical and political contexts of the communities in question – the “Japanese” community of Brazil and the Russian-language community in Estonia – this thesis questions the ways that the Japanese-language literary world has been constructed in Brazil. Other questions are then raised: why does “death” appear so frequently in Matsui Tarô’s literary fiction? What are the functions operated by these deaths in his and Andrei Ivanov’s oeuvre? If the subject matter addressed by the two authors is not death per se, what are the real preoccupations at stake? Is it the past that dies, in a way that it seems to be the case in Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard? How does Matsui Tarô relate to this past? What about Andrei Ivanov? How do they choose, be it unconsciously, to see the past and to dialogue with it? This study shows that while “death” functions, in the literatures of Matsui and Ivanov, as a privileged vehicle conveying the criticisms that the two authors address to their respective communities, it is also used as a tool to communicate a vision for the future of these communities — that is, the proposition of a complete assimilation. The element of “death” points out the reasons why these authors refuse constructed concepts such as “us” (i.e. an isolated community)
Takayashiki, Masahito. "Autonomy in Modern Japanese Literature." University of Sydney, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/4021.
Full textThis dissertation aims to examine the manner in which the concept of autonomy (jiritsu) is treated in modern and contemporary Japanese literature. This examination will be performed by analysing the autonomous attitude of a contemporary Japanese writer Nakagami Kenji (1946–1992). This dissertation focuses on examining Nakagami Kenji’s ambivalent attitude towards his act of writing. We will explore the manner in which his act of writing appears to be a paradox between self-identification and the integration into the collective. Then, we will observe the possibility in which Nakagami’s ambivalent attitude is extended to cover Maruyama Masao’s relative definition of autonomy and Karatani Kōjin’s interpretation of Immanuel Kant’s notion of freedom and responsibility. Nakagami’s attempt is certainly not confined to only his works. The notion of autonomy may be applied to perceive a similar thought that was represented by previous writers. We will also examine various never-ending autonomous attempts expressed by Sakaguchi Ango, Miyazawa Kenji and Nakahara Chūya. Moreover, we will analyse how Nakagami’s distrust of the modern Japanese language and his admiration of the body as an undeniable object are reflected in his major novels in detail and attempt to extend this observation into the works of the theatrical artists in the 1960s such as Betsuyaku Minoru, Kara Jūrō, Hijikata Tatsumi and Terayama Shūji and contemporary women writers such as Tsushima Yūko, Takamura Kaoru, Tawada Yōko and Yoshimoto Banana. These writers and artists struggled to establish their autonomous freedom as they encountered the conflict between their individual bodies that personifies their personal autonomy and the modern Japanese language that confines them in the fixed and submissive roles in present-day Japan. In this dissertation, I would like to conclude that Nakagami Kenji’s ambivalent attitude towards his act of writing can be an eternal self-legislation, that is, his endless attempt to establish autonomous freedom, which evolves from the paradox between the individual (body) and the collective (language).
Pinar, Garcia Alex. "Western Literature in Japanese Film (1910-1938)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/667250.
Full textSince the beginning of cinema, innumerable films have been derived from classic or popular literature. Film adaptation of a literary work can be considered as an interpretative process in which the film director creates a new artistic work through several transformations in the structure, content, aesthetics, and narrative discourse. There are hundreds of films in which the directors have adapted literary works from their own cultural sphere, but there are fewer examples of directors who have made movies based on literary works from a different culture and literary tradition. That is the case for some Japanese film directors, such as Kurosawa Akira, who adapted foreign literature for the screen. Many scholars in the field of Film Studies have focused their attention on the adaptations made by Kurosawa and other Japanese directors in the 1950s and subsequent decades: a period during which Japanese cinema received acknowledgment worldwide and achieved an international presence in prestigious film festivals. However, there has been little or no attention to the adaptations of Western literature produced in Japan during the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s, throughout the so-called Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa pre-war eras. The objective of this research is therefore to explore the intertextual relations between those films and the Western works on which they were based, and to describe the cultural transformations in the structure, content, aesthetics, and narrative discourse carried out in the process of adaptation. The methodology employed follows Stam’s intertextual dialogic approach, and takes into account the most recent theoretical frameworks, which suggest adding historical, cultural, and contextual aspects into the analysis of film adaptations. This dissertation goes far beyond the scope of the previous investigations, as it examines Japanese movies based on Western literature produced during the first half of the twentieth century that have never or barely been studied.
Tokuda, Soichiro. "Where is "home" for Japanese-Americans?" Thesis, State University of New York at Binghamton, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3590779.
Full textThis study explores the issue of Japanese internment camp in the United States and Canada during World War Two. It argues that Japanese immigrants, who were totally innocent, became historical victims and experienced camp. During World War Two, the Japanese army attacked Pearl Harbor, a territory of the United States. This incident made mainstream American and Canadian society suspicious of Japanese immigrants, who had the same ethnicity and blood as the army, the "enemies." This study is an attempt to find the voice and feelings of those who had to experience trauma in camp. As subaltern figures, all they had to do was endure and accept their fate. As immigrants, who seemed not to have English fluency, they had to accept the requirements of America or Canada in order to be allowed to live. At the same time, this study seeks to analyze how Japanese-Americans and -Canadians forged their identity after overcoming the trauma of camp and the agony of assimilation. In so doing, this dissertation considers the work of four novelists who have written about these difficult issues. Chapter 1 explains how other Asians – Koreans and Chinese – were affected by the Japanese army and how mainstream society looked at Japanese immigrants. Chapters 2 and 3 explore Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Itsuka. Naomi, the protagonist, struggles to find a sense of "home-ness." Chapter 4 examines Monica Sone's Nisei Daughter. Kazuko, the protagonist, has to experience negative aspects of the United States. Chapter 5 explores Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston's Farewell to Manzanar. Jeanne, the protagonist, has to go through painful experiences and racism up to the last section of the novel. Chapter 6 analyzes John Okada's No-No Boy. Ichiro, the protagonist, suffers self-alienation. He cannot fix his identity between his duality until he can find his "home." Chapter 7 examines the authors' intentions and asks in which direction Japanese-Americans and -Canadians can move forward in the future.
Burton, William James. "In a perfect world : utopias in modern Japanese literature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11144.
Full textHio, Noriko. "The influence of Victorian literature upon Japanese literature of the Meiji Period." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.328709.
Full textKobayashi, Junko. ""Bitter sweet home" : celebration of biculturalism in Japanese language Japanese American literature, 1936-1952 /." Diss., University of Iowa, 2005. http://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/97.
Full textSavas, Minae Yamamoto. "Feminine Madness In The Japanese Noh Theatre." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1222076003.
Full text沈樂軒 and Lok-hin Kevin Shen. "A comparative study of two Japanese-English and two Japanese-Chinese translations of the Tale of Genji." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2003. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B30104518.
Full textGoudie, Teresa Makiko. "Intergenerational transmission of trauma and post-internment Japanese diasporic literature." Thesis, Goudie, Teresa Makiko (2006) Intergenerational transmission of trauma and post-internment Japanese diasporic literature. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/45/.
Full textGoudie, Teresa Makiko. "Intergenerational transmission of trauma and post-internment Japanese diasporic literature." Goudie, Teresa Makiko (2006) Intergenerational transmission of trauma and post-internment Japanese diasporic literature. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2006. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/45/.
Full textKiyota, Tomonori. "Toward the end of the Shosetsu, 1887-1933 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p9981968.
Full textKato, Megumi Humanities & Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Representations of Japan and Japanese people in Australian literature." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38718.
Full textWells, Marguerite Adele. "Humour in Japanese theatre with special reference to shingeki." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.334109.
Full textKockum, Keiko. "Japanese achievement, Chinese aspiration a study of the Japanese influence on the modernisation of the late Qing novel /." Löberöd : Plus Ultra, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/24703921.html.
Full textDriscoll, Mark W. "Erotic empire, grotesque empire work and text in Japan's imperial modernism /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 2000. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?9953667.
Full textcom, teresamgoudie@hotmail, and Teresa Makiko Goudie. "Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma and Post-internment Japanese Diasporic Literature." Murdoch University, 2006. http://wwwlib.murdoch.edu.au/adt/browse/view/adt-MU20061012.65617.
Full textVanninen, Kosti. "Translating Japanese Onomatopoeia into Finnish in Literature: A Case Study." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Japanska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-35924.
Full textNakamura, Miri. "Monstrous bodies : gender and reproductive science in modern Japanese literature /." May be available electronically:, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/login?COPT=REJTPTU1MTUmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=12498.
Full textPerreira, Jessica M. "Masculinity on Women in Japan: Gender Fluidity Explored Through Literature and Performance." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1038.
Full textShen, Nai-huei. "The age of sadness : a study of naturalism in Taiwanese literature under Japanese colonization /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6689.
Full textHaga, Koichi. "The critique of virtual shifting discursive space in Japanese literature, 1960s-1980s." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1682825951&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textKagaya, Shinko. "NÔ : the emergent reorientation of a traditional Japanese Theater in crosscultural settings /." The Ohio State University, 1999. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1488191667179224.
Full textBorgman, Lindsay Reith Frankenfeld. "Reading guide to Japanese literature: Making the texts of Aozora Bunko available to students of Japanese (Kenji Miyazawa)." Diss., Connect to online resource, 2006. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:1435233.
Full textKao, Chia-li. "Imperialist ambiguity and ambivalence in Japanese and Taiwanese literature, 1895-1945." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2008. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3345077.
Full textTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed on Oct. 5, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-02, Section: A, page: 0570.
Tierney, Robin Leah. "Japanese literature as world literature: visceral engagement in the writings of Tawada Yoko and Shono Yoriko." Diss., University of Iowa, 2010. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/750.
Full textCooper, Jessica. "The Roles of Women, Animals, and Nature in Traditional Japanese and Western Folk Tales Carry Over into Modern Japanese and Western Culture." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2013. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/166.
Full textShibata, Miura Yuko. "Creating Japaneseness : formation of cultural identify /." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2000. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B22199196.
Full textRowley, Gillian Gaye. "Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) and The Tale of The Genji." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339429.
Full textFay, Leann. "Human Connections with the Ocean Represented in African and Japanese Oral Narratives| Ecopsychological Perspectives." Thesis, California Institute of Integral Studies, 2019. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=13419400.
Full textThis dissertation demonstrates how characteristics and functions of African and Japanese oral narrative traditions make narratives about the ocean in these traditions useful for exploring some of the complex psychological roles the ocean plays in people’s lives. A background of these oral narrative traditions and the main characteristics and functions of African and Japanese oral narratives are identified from the literature, African and Japanese ecopsychological perspectives are outlined, and a hermeneutic methodology applies text analysis to identify connections between humans and the ocean represented in a selection of text versions of ocean oral narratives. African and Japanese oral narratives are transmitted in adaptable yet continuous traditions, reflective of self and group identity, used to serve social and community functions, connected to spiritual traditions, and used as tools for power or resistance to power. Intimate connections between humans and the ocean are represented in the selection of narratives. In African oral narratives, connections are represented including merging identities of the ocean and humans, contrasting of nurturing mother and dangerous mother elements, the ocean bringing children, extreme love, and taking extreme love, connections between the ocean and performance, and representations of the ocean in colonization, slavery, healing, and empowerment. In Japanese oral narratives, intimate connections are represented including magic gifts from the ocean, water deity wives, warnings of fishing, bodily sacrifice, and connections to spiritual traditions, people, and local places.
Taylor, Cindy M. "Naturalism : its development and subsequent decline in Chinese and Japanese literature /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09art2389.pdf.
Full textLin, Pei-Yin. "Culture, colonialism and identity : Taiwanese literature during the Japanese occupation period." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249751.
Full textSlaymaker, Douglas. "Japanese literature after Sartre : Noma Hiroshi, Ōe Kenzaburō, and Mishima Yukio /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/11079.
Full textKawaharada, Dennis. "The rhetoric of identity in Japanese American writings, 1948-1988 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9347.
Full textPrice, Ann Mereryd. "Alienation, trains and the journey of life in four modern Japanese novels." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26903.
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Page-Lippsmeyer, Kathryn. "The space of Japanese science fiction| Illustration, subculture, and the body in "SF Magazine"." Thesis, University of Southern California, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10160154.
Full textThis is a study of the rise of science fiction as a subculture in the 1960s through an analysis of the first and longest-running commercial science fiction magazine in Japan: SF Magazine. Much of the research on science fiction in Japan focuses on the boom in the 1980s or on the very first science fictional texts created in the early years of the twentieth century, glossing over this pivotal decade. From 1959-1969, SF Magazine ’s covers created a visual legacy of the relationship of the human body to space that reveals larger concerns about technology, science, and humanity. This legacy centers around the mediation of human existence through technology (called the posthuman), which also transforms our understanding of gender and space in contemporary works. I examine the constellation of Japanese conceptions of the body in science fiction, its manifestations and limits, exploring how the representation of this Japanese, posthuman, and often cyborgian body is figured as an absence in the space of science fiction landscapes. SF Magazine was used by consumers to construct meanings of self, social identity, and social relations. Science fiction illustration complemented and supported the centrality of SF Magazine, making these illustrations integral to the production the of science fiction subculture and to the place of the body within Japanese science fiction. Their representation of space, and then in the later part of the 1960s the return of the body to these covers, mirrors the theoretical and emotional concerns of not just science fiction writers and readers in the 1960s, but the larger social and historical concerns present in the country at large.
The horrifying and painful mutability of bodies that came to light after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki manifests, in the latter years of the 1960s in science fiction, as the fantastically powerful mutating bodies of super heroes and cyborgs within the science fictional world. The bombed spaces of the postwar (largely ignored in mainstream 1960s media) were reimagined in productive ways on the covers of SF Magazine, mirroring the fiction and nonfictional contents. It is through this publication that a recognizable community emerges, a particular type of identity becomes associated with the science fiction fan that coalesced when the magazine began to offer different points of articulation, both through the covers and through the magazine’s contents. That notion of the science fiction fan as a particular subjectivity, as a particular way to navigate the world, created a space to articulate trauma and to investigate ways out of that trauma not available in mainstream works.
My work seeks to build on literary scholarship that considers the role commercial and pulp genres fiction play in negotiating and constructing community. I contribute to recent scholarship in art history that investigates the close relationship of Surrealism to mass culture movements in postwar Japan, although these art historians largely center their work on advertising in the pre-war context. Furthermore, my project reconsiders the importance of the visual to a definition of science fiction: it is only when the visual and textual are blended that a recognizable version of science fiction emerges – in the same way the magazine featuring the work of fans blurred the boundary between professional and fan. Hence, although the context of my study is 1960s Japan, my research is inseparable from larger investigations of the visual and the textual, the global understanding of science fiction, the relationship between high art and commercial culture, and contemporary media studies. This work is therefore of interest not only to literary science fiction scholars, but also to researchers in critical theory, visual studies, fan studies, and contemporary Japanese culture.
Wren, James Allan. "Differences without distinction : ideology and the performative contexts of fictional self-representation in modern Japanese literature /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6668.
Full textTillack, Peter Bruce. "The politics of "introspection" : two Naikō no sedai writers and the representation of social space in "contemporary" Japan /." view abstract or download file of text, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1196395441&SrchMode=1&sid=1&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1180992920&clientId=11238.
Full textTypescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 363-372). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users.
Cervelli, Filippo. "Ima deshō : the vacuum of immediacy in contemporary Japanese literature and popular culture." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:521d5f5e-d34d-454a-b622-a0454783cf80.
Full textNave, Joshua. "When Honor Falls: A Study of Japanese Honor in Young Adult Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2021. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/612.
Full textWood, Michael S. "Literary subjects adrift : a cultural history of early modern Japanese castaway narratives, ca. 1780-1880 /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/10071.
Full textShelton, Abigail Leigh. "An analysis of the particle WA in Japanese narrative discourse." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1407512818.
Full textOndrake, Laura Katherine. "Hirabayashi Taiko: Issues of Subjectivity in Japanese Women’s Autobiography in Fiction." The Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1250261685.
Full textTsutsumi, Setsuko. "Kawabata Yasunari : interweaving the "old song of the East" and avant-garde techniques /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6657.
Full textRamsay, Martin. "Single frame heroics new ways of being in the fiction of Yoshimoto Banana /." Australasian Digital Theses Program, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net.
Full textSubmitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, [Faculty of Business], Swinburne University of Technology - 2009. Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-253)
Ono, Yumiko Murai Yoshikiyo. "Genre and transgenre in Edo literature an annotated translation of Murai Yoshikiyo's Kyōkun hyakumonogatari with an exploration of the text's multiple filiations /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/326/.
Full textNakamura, Mariko. "Kaga Otohiko - known yet unknown : a study of a Japanese realist." Phd thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/147179.
Full textMeldrum, Yukari Fukuchi. "Contemporary Translationese in Japanese Popular Literature." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10048/560.
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Tong, Pi-Ta. "The other in modern Japanese literature." Thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/14988.
Full textSHAOLING, HUNG, and 洪韶翎. "The Research of Japanese Proletarian Literature." Thesis, 2002. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35159639294223958833.
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This research paper aims to explore the “proletarian literature in “Japanese proletarian literature” which takes place in the early 20th century. In addition to examining the initial ideals of “justice” and “social equality,” it also attempts by means of sorting and discourse/ statement to plow through this left-wing literature, field, which is still desolate among local researches of Japanese literature yet influential to Taiwanese literature in the period under Japanese occupation.
From the view of a Japanese literature researcher whose mother tongue is Chinese, it further examines why the results of Japanese proletarian literature and Japanese Communist Party, which teem with left-wing enthusiasm, may differ greatly from those of Taiwanese literature in the period under Japanese occupation, which incorporates the idea of “labor and social rank” into the idea of “confrontation between nationality and colonization,” and from those of the left-wing literature in China, acclaimed as “revolutionary literature” by China Communist Party, which perfectly connects itself with the race-saving feelings and thus succeeds. By surveying the factors among them, this paper aims to clarify what role the Japanese proletarian literature plays in modern and contemporary literature in Japan.
Starting with the introduction of the origin of the left wing in the West, Chapter 1 leads to explore the political, social and literary circles in Japanese modernization period, and progresses to how the proletarian literature rose and what role it played then. It also sums up so far the researches and opinions on this domain in Japanese literary circle/ in Japanese academies, classifying and analyzing the themes of related papers existent/ available in the National Institute of Japanese literature.
Chapter 2, focusing on “main part/ subjectivity,” is mainly based on the rising, varying, and the gathering and publications among intellectuals in the whole literary movement so as to present the outline/ framework of the history of proletarian literature movement in Japan.
Chapter 3, focusing on “Body/ Flesh,” entering and investigating each notable period in this literary movement, attempts to present the internal atmosphere of the proletarian literature by translating, quoting and text-analyzing the important works and writers.
Chapter 4 focusing on “Limbs,” entering and investigating each notable period in this literary movement, attempts to reveal how the political movement and literary productions are linked, how the literary ideas are presented and how the literary critiques towards the production are conducted inside the proletarian literature by translating, quoting and text-analyzing the important literary critiques and critics
Chapter 5 examines by translating, quoting and text-analyzing the surviving works, critiques and self-reflections on the past in the so-called “turning era” when the left-wing groups were destructed by the Emperor government.
Chapter 6 summarizes all the points mentioned in previous chapters and collects various evidence on the Japanese society other than literature; in addition to the opinions of previous studies that the proletarian literature dies out due to both being oppressed mercilessly by the fascistic Emperor government and being ideologically inconsistent among the sects inside the Communist Party, this paper aspires to add that it is its insistence on the genuine left wing course and denial to the prevalent values of exploitation in disguise of feudalism among all ranks in Japanese society that void its echoing with the mass and thus demolish this literary movement which has never appeared since the war.