{"product_id":"for-dignity-justice-and-revolution-norma-field-9780226068374","title":"For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature","description":"Fiction created by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization, dramatic inequality, and imperial expansion. In Japan, literary youth, men and women, sought to turn their imaginations and craft to tackling the ensuing injustices, with results that captured both middle-class and worker-farmer readers. This anthology is a landmark introduction to Japanese proletarian literature from that period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contextualized by introductory essays, forty expertly translated stories touch on topics like perilous factories, predatory bosses, ethnic discrimination, and the myriad indignities of poverty. Together, they show how even intensely personal issues form a pattern of oppression. Fostering labor consciousness as part of an international leftist arts movement, these writers, lovers of literature, were also challenging the institution of modern literature itself. This anthology demonstrates the vitality of the \"red decade\" long buried in modern Japanese literary history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norma Field\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226068374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226068374\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/14\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 488\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2016","brand":"Norma Field","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517278105855,"sku":"9780226068374","price":31.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e7143cc1-fcbf-415e-a675-7b067ad311f1.jpg?v=1778731084","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/for-dignity-justice-and-revolution-norma-field-9780226068374","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}