Dissolving Literary Modernism: Sanjūgo Naoki, Kan Kikuchi, Shūsei Tokuda at the Panel of Art and Literature

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  • 溶解していく文学者たちの〈近代〉
  • ――文芸懇話会と直木三十五・菊池寛・徳田秋声など――

Abstract

<p>Since the Manchurian Incident in 1931 modernism in Japan had gradually become eclipsed under the shadow of the fascist regime. The Panel of Art and Literature is one of the manifestations of such a tendency. In 1934 it started with the talk between Sanjūgo Naoki, the writer, and Manabu Matsumoto, the chief of the Police Affairs Bureau of the Home Ministry. Soon Kan Kikuchi, Shūsei Tokuda, and others voluntarily joined in the panel and eventually lost their identity as modernist writers. This article will consider how the dissolution of literary modernism occurred in the overdetermined context of the contemporary literary scene.</p>

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  • Japanese Literature

    Japanese Literature 67 (11), 24-34, 2018-11-10

    Japanese Literature Association

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