Literary and Artistic Japan behind the Iron Curtain [Hardcover]

Introduction. Forbidden Space(s): Japan in the Constructed Realm behind the Iron Curtain??Part I:?The Concrete and the Conceptual: Reception of Japan??1. Shifting Imagery on the Covers of Clavells?ShMgun?and the Romanian Reception of Japanese Visual Culture? 2. The Rediscovery of Japan in Hungary in the 1950s-1960s? 3. The Reception of Modern Japanese Literature in the German Democratic Republic: A Survey? 4. Directions in the Slovene Translation of Japanese Literature during the Postwar Years? 5. The Hungarian Reception of?The Hiroshima Panels?and the Communist Desideratum for World Peace? 6. The Return to the Myth: Japanese Literature in Soviet Moldova??Part II:The Imagined: Japan as Symbol of Resistance??7. After the Freeze and the Thaw: Kawabata Yasunaris Nobel Prize and the Soviet Rediscovery of Japan? 8. Rays behind the Iron Curtain: Japan, Cinema, and Bulgarian Socialist Culture? 9. Two Japanese Theater Classics in the Shadow of Socialist Realism in Hungary? 10.?SMsaku-hanga?and Progressive Japanese Art in Soviet Art History from the Late 1950s to the mid-1970s? 11. Japanese Poetic Expression against Communist Oppression: The Haiku/ Senryk?of Dissident Karel Trinkewitz and Others? 12. The Reception of Clavells?ShMgun: Fantasizing about Japan in Communist Romania

This book examines the public perception, scholarly reception, and critical analysis of Japan through translations of its literature and artistic endeavours within the temporal frame and geopolitical confines of the countries that were either occupied or left under the influence of the Soviet Union after World War II.

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