Korehito Kurahara and “Proletarian Realism”: Proletarian Literature in Japan in 1920s. This paper examines the proletarian literature movement that emerged in Japan in the 1920s, focusing on Korehito Kurahara, a leading proponent. Kurahara studied Russian literature and his theory, “proletarian realism,” was based on concepts promoted by the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP). The paper analyzes two of Kurahara’s works from which proletarian realism originated. Both works are based on arguments between leaders of the proletarian writers’ organization and A. Volonsky. After Kurahara, Japan attempted to interpret proletarian literature from the perspective of literary history, which Kurahara incorporated into Japanese literature based on RAPP discussions. This suggests that Japanese proletarian literary theory developed under the influence of the Soviet Union.
University of Tokyo, Japan - ORCID: 0009-0007-3341-6175
Chapter Title
Корэхито Курахара и “Пролетарский реализм”: пролетарская литература в Японии в 1920-х гг.
Authors
Michiko Komiya
Language
Russian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0238-1.15
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Publication Year
2023
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Book Title
The Reception of East Slavic Literatures in the West and the East
Editors
Shin’ichi Murata, Stefano Aloe
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
326
Publication Year
2023
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© 2023 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0238-1
ISBN Print
979-12-215-0237-4
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0238-1
eISBN (epub)
979-12-215-0239-8
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679