Changing Song: The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu (Princeton Legacy Library)

272 Pages·1990·8.392 MB·English

by  Miriam Rom Silverberg

MIRIAM ROM SILVERBERG
Changing Song
The Marxist Manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu
PRINCETON LEGACY LIBRARY
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Changing Song
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Nakano Shigeharu in his study, circa 1937. (Courtesy of Hara Izumi.)
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Changing Song
THE MARXIST MANIFESTOS OF
NAKANO SHIGEHARU
Miriam Silverberg
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY
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Copyright ©1990 by Miriam Silverberg
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street,
Princeton, New Jersey 08540
In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Oxford
All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Silverberg, Miriam Rom, 1951-
Changing song : the Marxist manifestos of Nakano Shigeharu / Miriam Silverberg.
p. cm.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Nakano, Shigeharu, 1902- —Political and social views. 2. Communism and
literature—Japan. 3. Communism and culture—Japan. I. Title.
PL834.A527Z825 1990 895.6Ί42—dc20 89-34627
ISBN 0-691-06816-X (alk. paper)
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Princeton Legacy Library edition 2019
Paperback ISBN: 978-0-691-65525-3
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-691-65667-0
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
INTRODUCTION
Reclaiming Nakano Shigeharu 3
CHAPTER ONE
Fragments from a Life 11
The Makings of Biography 11
Taishd Images 30
CHAPTER TWO
A World Split in Two 44
Nakano Shigeharu's Marxist Manifestos 44
Changing Fukumoto Changing Lukdcs 5 8
CHAPTER THREE
Song I: The Discovery of History 68
Placing History into Poetry 68
Placing the Intellectual into History 79
CHAPTER FOUR
Song II: The Reproduction of Taisho Culture 101
The Reproduction of Culture 101
The Culture of Reproduction 122
CHAPTER FIVE
Song III: The Dialogue of Revolution 141
Taishd Dialogues 141
Constructing the Canon 163
CHAPTER SIX
Song IV: Closing Song 177
Dialogue Denied 177
Shdwa Song 183
CONCLUSION
Marxism Addresses the Modern 209
Modern Marxism in Song 209
Talking about Taisho 224
viii · Contents
Chronology 230
Bibliography 235
Index 247
Illustrations
Frontispiece. Nakano Shigeharu in his study
Afterpage 112
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Nakano Shigeharu and Hara Masano
Nakano and Hara during the 1930s
Cover page from Musansha shimbun, September 1, 1927
Detail of the preceding, featuring "The Young Girls of Korea"
Cover page of the New Year's Day 1928 edition of Musansha shimbun
Miyamoto Yuriko's colleagues
Nakano's prison letters to his wife
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