Description: The first career-spanning study of Japanese literary giant Yasuoka Shotaro in English
Brief description: Kendall Heitzman is an assistant professor of Japanese literature and culture at the University of Iowa. He is the author of a number of articles on contemporary Japanese literature and has translated into English stories and essays by a number of prominent contemporary Japanese writers.
Review Quotes: "Heitzman's close readings of Yasuoka's early fiction and nonfiction, his analysis of the impact the South had on subsequent writing, and his involvement in another of the writer's passions, film, show clearly how 'Yasuoka's work to endure the postwar has helped ensure that the postwar will endure.' Enduring Postwar will be of interest to scholars of Japan and the American South."
--Davinder Bhowmik, University of Washington