Abstract
A review of Kendall Heitzman's book, Enduring Postwar: Yasuoka Shōtarō and Literary Memory in Japan.
Highlights
The book consists of five chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion
There is a bibliography, an index, and an appendix which lists the works of Yasuoka available in English translation—of these, there are surprisingly few, with the most recent coming in a collection by Royall Tyler from 2008
This journal is published by the University Library System, University of Pittsburgh as part of its D-Scribe Digital Publishing Program and is cosponsored by the University of Pittsburgh Press
Summary
The book consists of five chapters, plus an introduction and conclusion. There is a bibliography, an index, and an appendix which lists the works of Yasuoka available in English translation—of these, there are surprisingly few, with the most recent coming in a collection by Royall Tyler from 2008. The book becomes a way of placing an individual writer onto the dual planes of personal and national histories, in order to allow “new modes of engaging with memory [to] emerge—some of these modes originate with Yasuoka, and others are ...
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