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Article: A Marxist Sherlock Holmes: Itō Ken and the Proletarian Detective in 1920s Shanghai
| Title | A Marxist Sherlock Holmes: Itō Ken and the Proletarian Detective in 1920s Shanghai |
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| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 15-Mar-2019 |
| Publisher | Asia Pacific Association |
| Citation | Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 2019, v. 17, n. 6 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Itō Ken (1895-1945), a proletarian writer, stated in 1930 that his collection of short stories Shanhai Yawa(Shanghai Night Stories) was intended to be a “detective and proletarian like popular novel.” But how can a proletarian writer with a Marxist worldview change an a-political genre such as the detective story into a weapon of proletarian literature? Could a Marxist detective reveal the crimes of capital? Examining Itō’s journalistic articles and fiction within the context of mass media and detective fiction, I aim to show how Itō Ken tried to rework the detective genre into a form of proletarian literature. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/340611 |
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| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Michielsen, Edwin | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-03-11T10:45:52Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2024-03-11T10:45:52Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2019-03-15 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 2019, v. 17, n. 6 | - |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1557-4660 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/340611 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | <p>Itō Ken (1895-1945), a proletarian writer, stated in 1930 that his collection of short stories <em>Shanhai Yawa</em>(Shanghai Night Stories) was intended to be a “detective and proletarian like popular novel.” But how can a proletarian writer with a Marxist worldview change an a-political genre such as the detective story into a weapon of proletarian literature? Could a Marxist detective reveal the crimes of capital? Examining Itō’s journalistic articles and fiction within the context of mass media and detective fiction, I aim to show how Itō Ken tried to rework the detective genre into a form of proletarian literature.</p> | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.publisher | Asia Pacific Association | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus | - |
| dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
| dc.title | A Marxist Sherlock Holmes: Itō Ken and the Proletarian Detective in 1920s Shanghai | - |
| dc.type | Article | - |
| dc.identifier.volume | 17 | - |
| dc.identifier.issue | 6 | - |
| dc.identifier.issnl | 1557-4660 | - |