Long, Long Autumn Nights: Selected Poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901-1940 - Couverture souple

Oguma, Hideo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0939512947 ISBN 13 : 9780939512942

Editeur : Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1999

Synopsis

In the deepening twilight before World War II, Oguma Hideo cried out against the darkness that was enveloping men’s souls. He died in 1940 at the age of 39, but during his brief lifetime he published some of the most politically powerful poems ever written in Japan. Oguma’s best work displays an empathic vision and breadth of human concern unparalleled in Japanese poetry. He writes from the point of view of Chinese soldiers massacred by the Japanese forces, Ainu hunters trying to preserve their ethnic identity, and Korean grandmothers struggling in vain to preserve Korean culture under Japanese occupation. And, quite unusually for Japanese poets, who have tended to favor the shorter waka and haiku forms, Oguma excels at long poems with an epic-like quality.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David G. Goodman is Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is best known as a scholar and translator of modern Japanese drama and is the editor-translator of many books in Englis

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0939512947
• ISBN 13: 9780939512942
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
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• Personne responsable: non disponible