STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Franz Prichard (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep … [Read more...]
The Frontier Within: Essays by Abe Kōbō
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 … [Read more...]
