Part1: Conceptual Excursions
1. ‘Ideological Conversion as Historical Catachresis: Coming to Terms with tenk?’
2. ‘The Historical Origins of tenk? as an Intellectual and Social Issue: Marxism ? Thought Control ? Media’
3. ‘Tenk? in Korea: Revealing the Critical Threshold of Colonial Empire’
4. ‘Takeuchi Yoshimi and the Problem of tenk?’
Part2: Literary Possibilities
5. ‘Literature and Affect: Proletarian Literature as Discovery’
6. ‘Common Tropes and Themes in Japan’s tenk? Literature’
7. "Doublethink" in Seisan bungaku Theory’
8. "Truth": The tenk? of Nakano Shigeharu and Hayashi Fusao’
9. ‘The Disjointed Narratives and Fractured Subjects of Takami Jun’
10. ‘Crossing the Void: Shimaki Kensaku’s Search for Meaning in "Leprosy" and "Blindness"
11. ‘The Tenk? of Anarchist Poets: Agrarian and Cinematic Latencies’
12. ‘A Proletarian Writer in the Showcase Window: The Shifting Representation of "the Masses" in Sata Ineko’s Kurenai’
13. ‘Mythic Reality, Battlefield Survival and Psycho-social Conversion in Yoshida Mitsuru’s The End of Battleship Yamato’