Japanese literature Summary

In the following essay, Gessel discusses major fiction writers and literary movements that emerged in Japan after World War II. Japanese fiction after the occupation is in many ways an extension as we... Read more

In the following essay, Konaka surveys several works exemplary of a Japanese literary genre known as "atomic-bomb literature." In On Photography, Susan Sontag tells of seeing, at the age... Read more

In the following essay, Lippit assesses the influence of such western writers as Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire on Japanese writers. The strong response of such major writers of modern Japanes... Read more

In the following excerpt, Kijima presents an overview of trends in Japanese poetry written after World War II. Postwar Japanese poetry emerged from the ashes. During the wartime, the poets who were no... Read more

In the following essay, Rimer provides a historical overview of Japanese theater, focusing on three representative works of classical and modern Japanese drama. When I first began to attend performanc... Read more

In the following essay, Rolf analyzes major characteristics of Japanese theater in the 1980s. Twentieth-century Japanese theatre grew out of attempts to create a new Japanese theatre befitting the new... Read more

In the following essay, Hijiya-Kirschnereit considers the intellectual and artistic currents that form the background to Japanese fiction during the forty years since the end of World War II. A common... Read more