Author(s): Heather Bowen-Struyk (editor), Norma Field (editor)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
City: Chicago
Tags: japanese literature
Contents
List of Figures
Introduction
1. The Personal Is the Political
1 Comrade Taguchi’s Sorrow • Kobayashi Takiji
2 Red • Nakamoto Takako
3 The Mother • Wakasugi Toriko
4 A Statement of My Views in Response to Mr. Masamune Hakuchō • Aono Suekichi
5 A Chronology of My Life • Kobayashi Takiji
2. Labor and Literature
6 The Prostitute • Hayama Yoshiki
7 Apples • Hayashi Fusao
8 Prayer • Sata Ineko
9 Natural Growth and Purposeful Consciousness • Aono Suekichi
10 Going on a Field Trip? • Nakamoto Takako
3. The Question of Realism
11 March 15, 1928 • Kobayashi Takiji
12 The Linesmen • Kataoka Teppei
13 The Path to Proletarian Realism • Kurahara Korehito
14 On the Tendency of Proletarian Works to Become Formulaic • Hirabayashi Taiko
15 Covering Over the Essence • Sata Ineko
4. Children
16 Hell • Kaji Wataru
17 Death of a Cricket • Murayama Kazuko
18 Elephant and Mouse • Murayama Kazuko
19 Tetsu’s Story; Or, a Rope around Whose Neck? • Nakano Shigeharu
20 The Question of “Reality” and “Unreality” in Children’s Stories • Makimoto Kusuro
5. Art as a Weapon
21 Leafleting • Sata Ineko
22 Letter • Kobayashi Takiji
23 Shawl • Tokunaga Sunao
24 The Bulletin Board and the Wall Story • Yi Tong- gyu
25 A Farmer among Farmers • Hosono Ko¯jiro
26 To Qiqihar • Kuroshima Denji
27 A Day at the Factory • Nagano Kayo
28 Our Own Literature Course (1): A Guide to Writing Literary Reportage • Yamada Seizaburo
29 On Wall Stories and “Short” Short Stories: A New Approach to Proletarian Literature • Kobayashi Takiji
30 A Guide to Fiction Writing: How to Write Stories • Kobayashi Takiji
31 The Achievements of the Creative Writing Movement: An Assessment of Works to Date • Tokunaga Sunao
6. Anti-imperialism and Internationalism
32 Another Battlefront • Matsuda Tokiko
33 Hell of the Starving • Chang Hyŏk-chu
34 On Antiwar Literature • Kuroshima Denji
7. Repression, Recantation, and Socialist Realism
35 Midnight Sun • Murayama Tomoyoshi
36 The Breast • Miyamoto Yuriko
37 Negative Realism: One Direction for Proletarian Literature • Kawaguchi Hiroshi
38 Proletarian Realism and “Socialist Realism”: A Study of Literary Method (1) • Moriyama Kei
39 Socialist Realism or XXX Realism? • Kim Tu-yong
40 Buds That Survive Winter • Miyamoto Yuriko
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Translators
