1st Edition
Marxist History and Postwar Japanese Nationalism
By Curtis Anderson Gayle
Copyright 2003
200 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the historical writings of postwar Japanese Marxists - who were, and who continue to be, surprisingly numerous in the Japanese academic world. It shows how they developed in their historical writing ideas of 'radical nationalism', which accepted presupposed ideas of Japan's 'ethnic homogeneity', but which they saw as a 'revolutionary subject', creating a sphere of radical... Read more
Acknowledgments 1. National imagery and international Marxism 2. Marxist History and the ethnic nation during the 1930's 3. Rebuilding Marxist history and rethinking the nation: 1945-1950 4. Marxist's history search for new ground: 1948-1950 5. Marxist history and the 'Minzoku Faction': T^oma Seita, Matsumoto Shinpachir^o and Ishimoda Sh^o 6. Minzoku ishiki and modernisation: Eguchi Bokur^o, Suzuki Shir^o, Inoue Kiyoshi and T^oyama Shigeki 7. Desire, mobilisation and internationalism 8. National awakening and postwar nationalism Index
Biography
Curtis Anderson Gayle holds a D.Phil in Japanese history and political thought from Kyoto University and specializes in modern Japanese intellectual history, nationalism, and international relations.
'Gayle has done a great service to scholarship on postwar Japan by closely examining a discourse that had such a formative impact on probaly the most dominant school of thought in postwar academic historiography, namely Marxism.' - Pacific Affairs
