Lyric Poetry As State Criticism in Modern Japan Stevie M. Munz Linda Kerber

Linda Kerber

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Lyric Poetry As State Criticism in Modern Japan Stevie M. Munz Linda KerberLyric Poetry as State Criticism in Modern Japan explores how seemingly apolitical verse became a subtle vehicle for political expression under censorship. In an era of intense state control, Japanese poets such as Kitahara Hakushu, Hagiwara Sakutaro, Yonezawa Nobuko, and Ote Takuji turned to lyric poetry to discuss police censorship and surveillance of modern media, state sponsored efforts at Western style modernization, and the policing of gender and