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Article: A Marxist Sherlock Holmes: Itō Ken and the Proletarian Detective in 1920s Shanghai

TitleA Marxist Sherlock Holmes: Itō Ken and the Proletarian Detective in 1920s Shanghai
Authors
Issue Date15-Mar-2019
PublisherAsia 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.


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dc.contributor.authorMichielsen, Edwin-
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-11T10:45:52Z-
dc.date.available2024-03-11T10:45:52Z-
dc.date.issued2019-03-15-
dc.identifier.citationAsia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 2019, v. 17, n. 6-
dc.identifier.issn1557-4660-
dc.identifier.urihttp://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.languageeng-
dc.publisherAsia Pacific Association-
dc.relation.ispartofAsia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.titleA Marxist Sherlock Holmes: Itō Ken and the Proletarian Detective in 1920s Shanghai-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.volume17-
dc.identifier.issue6-
dc.identifier.issnl1557-4660-

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