For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature

"A significant contribution to the body of English language scholarship and translation of Japanese proletarian literature. Highly recommended." —Choice

Fiction created by and for the working class emerged worldwide in the early twentieth century as a response to rapid modernization, dramatic inequality, and imperial expansion. In Japan, literary youth, men and women, sought to turn their imaginations and craft to tackling the ensuing injustices, with results that captured both middle-cl...