WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA
Abe Kōbō. The Frontier Within: Essays by Abe Kōbō
Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Richard F. Calichman (2013)
“The Frontier Within redresses the lopsided and biased understanding of Abe Kōbō as solely a writer of fiction. First and foremost a thinker, he was extremely conscious of the fundamental conditions in which language operated and human existence was formed. The essays in this volume provide wonderful insight into Abe Kōbō’s engagement with imperialism, border creation, postwar ‘democracy,’ U.S.-Japan relations, and postwar Japanese Marxism.”
–Atsuko Ueda, Princeton University
