{"product_id":"enduring-postwar-kendall-heitzman-9780826522566","title":"Enduring Postwar: Yasuoka Shotaro and Literary Memory in Japan","description":"Yasuoka Shotaro (1920-2013) was perfectly situated to become Japan's premier chronicler of the Showa period (1926-89). Over fifty years as a writer, Yasuoka produced stories, novels, plays, and essays, as well as monumental histories that connected his own life to those of his ancestors. He was also the only major Japanese writer to live in the American South during the Civil Rights Movement, when he spent most of an academic year at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In 1977, he translated Alex Haley's \u003ci\u003eRoots\u003c\/i\u003e into Japanese. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor a long period, Yasuoka was at the center of the Japanese literary establishment, serving on prize committees and winning the major literary prizes of the era: the Akutagawa, the Noma, the Yomiuri, and the Kawabata. But what makes Yasuoka fascinating as a writer is the way that he consciously, deliberately resisted accepted narratives of modern Japanese history through his approach to personal and collective memory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eEnduring Postwar\u003c\/i\u003e, the first literary and biographical study of Yasuoka in English, Kendall Heitzman explores the element of memory in Yasuoka's work in the context of his life and evolving understanding of postwar Japan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kendall Heitzman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0826522564\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780826522566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vanderbilt University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2020","brand":"Kendall Heitzman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44063410061567,"sku":"9780826522566","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b31e8777-960c-41c6-9ab1-b9919f7935e6.jpg?v=1685389392","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/enduring-postwar-kendall-heitzman-9780826522566","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}