A cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusao's (1903-1975) tenk experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenk (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 tenk experience, first, within the historiographical context of the early Sh wa years (1926-1937), and then within the trans-war setting of Hayashi's reemergence as a proponent of wartime nationalism.
About the Author Jeff Long is associate professor in the Department of History at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania.
Cornell University - Cornell East Asia Series Stories from the samurai fringe: hayashi fusao's proletarian short stories and the turn to ultranationalism in early sh wa japan, paperback/jeff e. long
