10% off all books and free delivery over £40
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

The Return of the Gods

View All Editions

The selected edition of this book is not available to buy right now.
Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

The Return of the Gods Synopsis

First published in 1988 and now available in a photo-reprint paperback edition, this book provides an important perspective on the theatre, culture, and politics of Japan in the 1960s. It contains translations of five plays representative of the period, with analytical commentary by a leading authority on postwar Japanese drama. The author's central thesis is that the 1960 demonstrations against the renewal of the U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty was a major turning point in Japanese intellectual life, one characterized by disillusionment with the old left and the legacy of prewar left-wing formulations and by a quest for an alternative to the dominant Hegelian-Marxist system. The book argues that the 1960s were a period of eschatological reflection in which profound questions about ultimate ends were being asked.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9781885445162
Publication date: 31st March 2010
Author: David G. Goodman
Publisher: Cornell University East Asia Program an imprint of Cornell University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 380 pages
Genres: Theatre studies