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Land of Volcanic Ash: A Play in Two Parts (Cornell University East Asia Papers, No. 40) (Cornell University East Asia Papers, No 40)
Land of Volcanic Ash A Play in Two Parts - Cornell University East Asia Papers, No. 40 - Cornell University East Asia Papers, No 40 Author:Kubo Sakae, David G. Goodman Kubo Sakae's Land of Volcanic Ash (Kazanbaichi) is recognized as the major socialist realist drama of pre-war Japan. The play, which describes the struggles of a reform-minded intellectual in the Hokkaido countryside, is based on events surrounding the famine of 1934.