Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought

""Explores some of their most intellectually and aesthetically provocative connections between writers and intellectuals in modern Japan during the volatile transwar years of the 1920s-1950s. Reading philosophical texts alongside literary writings, the study links the intellectual side of literature to the literary dimensions of thought in contexts ranging from middlebrow writing to avant-garde modernism, and from the wartime left to the postwar right"--
Writers and intellectuals in modern Japan have long forged dialogues across the boundaries separating the spheres of literature and thought. This book explores some of their most provocative connections in the volatile years of the 1920s to 1950s, revealing unexpected intersections of literature, ideas, and politics in a global transwar context.