...Gavin Walker The work of the poet, theoretician, and political activist Tanigawa Gan (1923–95) played a decisive role in postwar Japanese intellectual and political life, deeply influencing the politics of 1968. By interrupting the prevailing discourses of democratic reconstruction, high economic...

... existentialist heroes and then, later, as he meditated on the Sartrean question of authenticity in his Sakebigoe, to advocate Black literature because it offers a pedagogy of the oppressed. The remarkable essay, “Tanigawa Gan and the Poetics...

... in the Japanese New Left's conception of shutaisei 主体性 (subjectivity). This article first presents the theories of subjectivity of some of the most influential thinkers in the shaping of the Japanese New Left ideology (Umemoto Katsumi, Nakai Masakazu, Yoshimoto Takaaki, Tanigawa Gan, Tokoro Mitsuko...

... outside when the constituting erotic and social relations are regulated through filial desire. The central drive in Wesley Sasaki-Uemura’s essay “Tanigawa Gan’s Politics of the Margins in Kyushu and Nagano” is analyzing the relation...

...: Tanigawa Gan, who was much more of a grassroots community organizer than was Tsurumi, expresses just such frustration. Knowing that Wes Sasaki-Uemura is quite fond of Tanigawa, I will leave further discussion of this crusty Kyushu fellow to him...

... such as Umemoto Katsumi, Nakai Masakazu, Yoshimoto Takaaki, Tanigawa Gan, and Tokoto Mitsuko all embraced the theory of subjective nothingness. Ōshima's Kōshukei drew inspiration from Umemoto's theory, as well as existential philosophy such as Sartreanism, for its portrayal of the protagonist R, who in the film...

... Tsurumi’s logical acrobatics did not go unnoticed. In 1959, the poet and cultural circle activist Tanigawa Gan flatly rejected Tsurumi’s hesitancy over the “dense human relations” of the old village community.43 And, obvi- ously missing...

....” in positions 1:3 Winter 1993 636 Waga O&nawa, ed. Tanigawa Ken’ichi (Tokyo: Mokujisha, 1970), 131. These suspicions became brutal policy during the Battle of Okinawa when the Japanese...

... rather than climbing over the low fence surrounding the compound. 25 As Tanigawa Gan wrote shortly after the protests, JSP and JCP leaders realized that the lim- ited amount of political authority they held depended on formally...

... Michael Warner, Publics and Counterpublics (New York: Zone, Wesley Sasaki- Uemura, “Tanigawa Gan’s Politics of the Margins in Kyushu and Nagano,” positions , no. – see Also see Sasaki- Uemura’s “Competing Publics: Citizens...