Rhetoric and region : local determinants of literary expression
PAJLS Vol. 14 - Summer 2013
Richard Torrance, Editor
Front Matter, including an Editor’s Foreword by Richard Torrance
Richard Torrance, Editor
Suzuki Sadami 鈴木貞美
Yamato as cultural memory: Maekawa Samio’s poetry on Nara
Leith Morton
Images of Kanazawa in Izumi Kyōka’s Yuna no tamashii
Artem Vorobiev
Playing house: suburbia and self in Miyabe Miyuki’s R.P.G.
Raechel Dumas
Gion in early Meiji: Narushima Ryūhoku’s A Glimpse of the Capital’s Cats
Matthew Fraleigh
Miyabe Miyuki’s descriptions of Shitamachi Tokyo
Noriko Chino
A moveable tea house: sharebon in early nineteenth century Nagoya
Dylan McGee
The dialect complex of Dazai Osamu as seen in Regretful Parting
Guohe Zheng
A failure of de-colonization: reading the postcolonial subject as double agent
Robert Del Greco
Struggling between nostalgia and reality: the Association of Chinese Literature Studies and Takeda Taijun’s Fūbaika
Yongfei Yi
Kiritsubo and Yang Kuei-fei: a Sino-Japanese dimension
Masako Nakagawa
Diaries of conversion: God, self, and the dilemma of faith in modern Japanese literature
Massimiliano Tomasi
Two views from Paris: Mori Arimasa and Katō Shūichi on Japanese culture in 1955
Doug Slaymaker
Japanese women and rural settlement in Manchukuo: gendered reflections of labor and productivity in Manshū gurafu
Annika A. Culver
Hirabayashi Taiko’s proletarian fiction of the worksite
Stephen Filler
Against the storm: the postwar Japanese culture through the real voices of working women, 1946-1950
Yumi Soeshima
Labor and literature of contemporary Japan: the prescience of Hannah Arendt
Yasuko Claremont
Mythical landscapes and imaginary creatures: Pokémon and Japanese regionalism
Kathryn Hemmann
Japanese earthquakes, tsunamis, and storms as archetypal symbols: an explication of Kamo no Chōmei’s The Earthquake, The Tale of Heike, Rai Sanyō’s Hearing of the Earthquake in Kyoto and the Great East Japan Earthquake
Doyin Aguoru