A Flock of Swirling Crows: And Other Proletarian Writings

By Denji Kuroshima

Book Overview

Why is education potentially subversive? How does ethnocentrism facilitate an oppressive status quo? Who actually benefits from war? Questions such as these were integral to the work of writer Kuroshima Denji (1898-1943), one of modern Japan's most dedicated antimilitarist intellectuals.

Kuroshima was wholeheartedly committed to fundamental change and produced numerous literary works expressing his passionate opposition to armed force as an instrument of imperialism. His only full-length novel, superbly translated here as Militarized Streets, was censored by both Japan's imperial government and the U.S. occupation authorities. The present volume comprises much of Kuroshima's most highly acclaimed work for the first time in English.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824829263
• ISBN13: 9780824829261
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.7"