A cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusa's (1903-1975) tenko experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenko (ideological conversion) through a close reading of his proletarian short stories. Tracing Hayashi's move from "romanticizing"to "defining"to "remembering" the proletarian literature movement and its participants in his proletarian fiction, this study argues for a far more personal and political rationale for Hayashi's subsequent turn to ultranationalism. Stories from the Samurai Fringe concludes with a consideration of Hayashi's tenko experience, first, within the historiographical context of the early Showa years (1926-1937), and then within the trans-war setting of Hayashi's reemergence as a proponent of wartime nationalism.
- ISBN10 1939161703
- ISBN13 9781939161703
- Publish Date 31 December 2019 (first published 31 March 2019)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Imprint Cornell University East Asia Program
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 316
- Language English