Chiara Comastri

Modern Japanese Intellectual History; Ecology, Democracy and Social Activism in Postwar Rural Japan; Women's Writing and Oral History 

 

Until now, dominant historical debates on Japan's 'postwar enlightenment' (sengo keimō) and 'postwar democracy' (sengo minshushugi) have been mainly focused on the discussion of Tokyo-based male intellectuals, such as Maruyama Masao, Watsuji Tetsuro, Tsurumi Shunsuke and so forth. However, if we were to centre these same debates on the everyday lives of rural Japanese women, what kind of history would be told?