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- Explores the life and work of Shibata Renzaburō
- Investigates the postwar shift in Japanese popular culture
- Considers the significance of samurai fiction in the postwar era
Part of the book series: East Asian Popular Culture (EAPC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature explores the life and work of Shibata Renzaburō (柴田錬三郎, 1917–1978), the author of adventure and historical novels who was instrumental in reinvigorating popular Japanese literature in the postwar period. This book considers postwar Japanese society through the prism of Shibata’s writing, exploring how the postwar period under SCAP Occupation influenced Shibata’s writing and generated the extraordinary popularity of samurai fiction in the postwar era at large. Through the use of a nihilistic warrior, Nemuri Kyōshirō, and other samurai characters, Shibata Renzaburō addresses important social issues of the day, such as the trauma of defeat, postwar reconstruction, and the attending societal ills and neuroses, while keeping his literature entertaining and easy to read, which ensured its mass appeal in postwar Japan.
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Authors and Affiliations
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The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Artem Vorobiev
About the author
Artem Vorobiev is Lecturer in Japanese at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at The Ohio State University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature
Authors: Artem Vorobiev
Series Title: East Asian Popular Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11192-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11191-4Published: 31 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-11194-5Published: 31 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-11192-1Published: 30 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-5935
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5943
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 231
Topics: Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Literature, general, History of Japan, Asian Cinema and TV