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

Kyōdoshoku to ichininshō narateibu—jojō no 1900 nendai kara 1920 nendai 郷土色と一人称ナラティヴ――抒情の1900年代から1920年代

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