1st Edition
Literary and Artistic Japan behind the Iron Curtain
Introduction. Forbidden Space(s): “Japan” in the Constructed Realm behind the Iron Curtain
Irina Holca and George T. Sipos
Part I: The Concrete and the Conceptual: Reception of Japan
1. Shifting Imagery on the Covers of Clavell’s Shōgun and the Romanian Reception of Japanese Visual Culture
Radu Leca
2. The “Rediscovery” of Japan in Hungary in the 1950s–1960s
Mária Ildikó Farkas
3. The Reception of Modern Japanese Literature in the German Democratic Republic: A Survey
Takashi Wada
4. Directions in the Slovene Translation of Japanese Literature during the Postwar Years
Nina Habjan Villarreal
5. The Hungarian Reception of The Hiroshima Panels and the Communist Desideratum for World Peace
Zsolt Petrányi
6. Return to the Myth: Japanese Literature in Soviet Moldova
Teodor Ajder
Part II:The Imagined: Japan as Symbol of Resistance
7. After the Freeze and the Thaw: Kawabata Yasunari’s Nobel Prize and the Soviet Rediscovery of Japan
Olga V. Solovieva
8. Rays behind the Iron Curtain: Japan, Cinema, and Bulgarian Socialist Culture
Andronika Màrtonova
9. Two Japanese Theater Classics in the Shadow of Socialist Realism in Hungary
Petra Doma
10. Sōsaku-hanga and ‘Progressive Japanese Art’ in Soviet Art History from the Late 1950s to the mid-1970s
Anna Guseva and Maria Yashkina
11. Japanese Poetic Expression against Communist Oppression: The Haiku/ Senryū of Dissident Karel Trinkewitz and Others
Lukas Bruna
12. The Reception of Clavell’s Shōgun: Fantasizing about Japan in Communist Romania
Alexandra Mustățea
Biography
Irina Holca is an associate professor of modern and contemporary Japanese literature at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan.
George T. Sipos is an associate professor at the West University of Timişoara, Romania, where he teaches Japanese literature, language, and culture.
