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Abe, Kōbō --- Japan --- Social life and customs

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In the work of writer Abe Kōbō (1924–1993), characters are alienated both from themselves and from one another. Through close readings of Abe's work, Richard Calichman reveals how time and writing have the ability to unground identity. Over time, attempts to create unity of self cause alienation, despite government attempts to convince people to form communities (and nations) to recapture a sense of wholeness. Art, then, must resist the nation-state and expose its false ideologies. Calichman argues that Abe's attack on the concept of national affiliation has been neglected through his inscription as a writer of Japanese literature. At the same time, the institution of Japan Studies works to tighten the bond between nation-state and individual subject. Through Abe's essays and short stories, he shows how the formation of community is constantly displaced by the notions of time and writing. Beyond Nation thus analyzes the elements of Orientalism, culturalism, and racism that often underlie the appeal to collective Japanese identity.

Identity (Psychology) in literature. --- Abe, Kōbō, --- Abe, Kimifusa --- 安部公房 --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Esta obra sirve como obra de referencia al fenomeno literario debido al desconocimiento que existe en América Latina sobre el Japón de posguerra

Abe, Kōbō, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- War poetry, Japanese. --- Japanese war poetry --- Japanese poetry --- Abe, Kimifusa --- 安部公房 --- Classic fiction (pre c 1945) --- Biographical fiction

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Among the great authors of postwar Japan, Abe Kōbō (1924–1993) is the mechanic. Works such as'The Woman in the Dunes'(1962), which brought him worldwide renown, conduct a profound analysis of human existence, while revelling in technical detail. The early postwar years were not only formative for Abe as a writer and political activist, they were also formative years for Japanese literature, culture, and politics. While progressing, in his own words,'from existentialism, to surrealism, and on to Communism', Abe published numerous treatises, tracts and other essays of various kinds concerning revolutionary aesthetics and the historic role of the arts, between artistic autonomy and social commitment. Abe's essays show the maturing of both his artistic and aesthetic agenda, and of his essay style. This process also involves political disillusionment, raising the question of what bearing Abe's earlier radical positions have on his more mature work. This study examines Abe Kōbō's programmatic essays written between his repatriation from Manchuria in 1947 and his expulsion from the Communist Party in 1962. The texts are placed in the context of the artistic and political groups in which he was active, and of the broader literary issues of the time, centring on the quest for a new beginning in literature.

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