A cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusa's (1903?1975) tenk? experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenk? (ideological conversion) through a close reading of his proletarian short stories. Tracing Hayashi's move from "romanticizing"to "defining"to "remembering" the proletarian literature movement and its participants in his proletarian fiction, this study argues for a far more personal and political rationale for Hayashi's subsequent turn to ultranationalism. Stories from the Samurai Fringe concludes with a consideration of Hayashi's tenk? experience, first, within the historiographical context of the early Showa years (1926?1937), and then within the trans-war setting of Hayashi's reemergence as a proponent of wartime nationalism. | Stories from the Samurai Fringe by Jeff E. Long, Paper over Board | Indigo Chapters