| Unhappy Soldier: Hino Ashihei and Japanese World War II Literature Contributor(s): Rosenfeld, David M. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739103652 ISBN-13: 9780739103654 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $121.77 Product Type: Hardcover Published: June 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Asian - Japanese |
| Dewey: 895.634 |
| LCCN: 2002003667 |
| Series: Studies of Modern Japan |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.66" W x 9.32" (0.97 lbs) 194 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Japanese |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Unhappy Soldier chronicles the writings of Hino Ashihei, Japan's most popular World War II writer. Ashihei rose to national celebrity status during the Pacific War for his accounts of campaigns in China and Southeast Asia, works that identified and sympathized with the common soldier. Despite being linked to the nationalistic ideology of the wartime state and purged during the Occupation, Ashihei proved to be an enduring literary and cultural phenomenon, reinventing himself with new, postwar writing that confronted the sunny patriotism of his wartime work. David Rosenfeld's book-the first in-depth study of wartime Japanese literature in English-provides a wealth of new material on how writing about the war was read during and after the conflict and new insight into the formation of Japan's national discourse on the war experience. |