Literary Mischief Sakaguchi Ango Culture And The War James Dorsey by James Dorsey, Doug Slaymaker (translation) 9780739138663, 0739138669, 2010001603 instant download after payment.

Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm & agitation. He remains one of the most creative & stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the public consciousness in the months immediately following Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. The energy & iconoclasm of his writings were matched by the outrageous & outsized antics of his life. Behind that life, & in the midst of those tumultuous times, Ango spoke with a cutting clarity. The essays & translations included in Literary Mischief probe some of the most volatile issues of culture, ideology, & philosophy of postwar Japan. Represented among the essayists are some of Japan's most important contemporary critics (e.g., Karatani K?jin & Ogino Anna). 
Many of Ango's works were produced during Japan's wars in China & the Pacific, a context in which words & ideas carried dire consequences for both writers & readers. All of the contributions to this volume consider this dimension of Ango's legacy, & it forms one of the thematic threads tying the volume together. The essays use Ango's writings to situate his accomplishment & contribute to our understanding of the potentials & limitations of radical thought in times of cultural nationalism, war, violence, & repression. This collection of essays & translations takes advantage of current interest in Sakaguchi Ango's work & makes available to the English-reading audience translations & critical work heretofore unavailable. As a result, the reader will come away with a coherent sense of Ango the individual & the writer, a critical apparatus for evaluating Ango, & access to new translations of key texts.