Name
LEE, Juhee
Degree
Ph.D. in Literature
Status
Assistant Professor
HP (URL)
https://researchmap.jp/Lee_Juhee
Research Topic
The Discourses on Tenkō (ideological conversion) and Its Cultural Representations in Postwar Japan
It is no exaggeration to say that the discourse on tenkō, or socialists’ ideological conversion, of 1930s’ Japan was largely shaped from the late 1940s through the 1950s. It was in the same period when the Cold War system was being constructed based on the anti-communist ideology. Bearing this in mind, my study aims to analyze how the social experience of prewar and wartime tenkō was represented in postwar literary texts in relation to the tenkō discourses of the period.
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Research on Japanese Tenkō Novels by Proletarian Writers
Education and Academic Employment
Education
| 2013~2020 | University of Tsukuba (M.A. in Literature, 2015 / Ph.D. in Literature, 2022) |
| 2010~2012 | Korea University (M.A. in Literature, 2012) |
| 2004~2009 | Korea University (B.A. in Literature, 2009) |
Academic Employment
| 2022.4~2023.3 | Part-time Researcher, Waseda University (The Global Japanese Studies Model Unit, Top Global University Project) |
| 2020.4~2021.3 | Part-time Lecturer, Ibaraki University |
| 2017.4~2019.3 | Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science |
Fields of Research Interests
tenkō, ideological conversion, Cold War
Academic Publications
[Book Chapters]
- Juhee Lee, ‘Weaving the Memories of the Struggle: the Representations of Jokō (Factory Girls) in Sata Ineko’s ‘Muslin Strike’ Pentalogy,’ Proletarian Literature and Gender: Class, Narrative, and Intersectionality, Iida Yūko, Nakaya Izumi, Sasao Kayo eds., Tokyo: Seikyūsha, 2023, pp.260-284
- Lee Juhee, ‘A Proletarian Writer in the Showcase Window: the shifting representation of “the Masses” in Sata Ineko’s Kurenai,’ Tenkō: Cultures of Political Conversion in Transwar Japan, Irena Hayter, George T. Sipos, Mark Williams eds., London and New York: Routledge, 2021, pp.198-222
[Articles]
- Juhee Lee, ‘Dramaturgy of the Mirror: The Woman’s Voice in Murayama Tomoyoshi’s tenkō novella “Byakuya” (White Nights),’ Modern Japanese Literary Studies, vol. 98, 2016.5, pp.61-76
- Juhee Lee, ‘Hōjō Tamio’s Defiance and Reconstruction of Alterity in “Dōke Shibai”: Comparison with the Representation of Hansen’s Disease in Shimaki Kensaku’s “Rai,” Modern Japanese Literary Studies, vol. 94, 2018.5, pp.178-193
Other Interests
Walking, Travel
Affiliated Academic Organizations
Association for Showa Literary Studies
Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies
Japan Comparative Literature Association
The Association for Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS)
Awards
2012.10〜2017.3 MEXT Japanese Government Scholarship Recipient
