Introduction

Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen

A geopolitics of literation: toward a psychoanalysis of Japan

Karatani Kōjin

歴史としての文学・文学としての歴史：戦後文学と歴史修正主義 Literature as History / History as Literature

小森陽一 Komori Yōichi

Superposition, montage, and dialectics in haiku, Pound, Eisenstein, and Benjamin

Takao Hagiwara

Festival and form in Ichikawa’s Yukinojō henge

Stephanie Deboer

The new as violence and the hermeneutics of slimness

Michele Marra

Izumi Kyōka’s Jouissance: dangerous women and deadly words

Nina Cornyetz

Staging female suicide on Otokoyama: new historicist readings of power and gender in the noh theater

Steven T. Brown

Genji, at least, was not a rapist: the nature of love and the parameters of sexual coercion in the literature of the Heian court

Margaret H. Childs

Meshūdo and the system of sexuality in The Tale of Genji and other Heian texts

Saeko Kimura

The depiction of non-Japanese in Sōseki’s novels

Atsuko Handa

Counter-Orientalism and textual play in Akutagawa’s ‘The Ball’ (Butōkai)

David Rosenfeld

Challenging the field of classical Japanese literature cultural production: Iwasa Miyoko’s ‘Through the Eyes of a Court Lady (Nyōbō no me)

Lynne Miyake

連歌興行に見る一揆精神の変遷 Ikki Spirit in Renga

鶴崎裕雄 Tsurusaki Hiroo

Reading the ‘court’ in courtesan: the historicization of the role of yūjo in some Muromachi tales

Sarah M. Strong

A wife’s discourse: Dazai’s Viyon no tsuma and the revision of civil law

Richie Sakakibara

『源氏物語』のなかの交易史、権力、ジエンダー Trade History in Genji monogatari

河添房江 Kawazoe Fusae

Postwar anthologies remember the prewar: censorship and the textual condition of ‘The Family of Koiwai’

Heather Bowen-Struyk

Escaping the impasse in the discourse on national identity: Hagiwara Sakutarō, Sakaguchi Ango, and Nishitani Keiji

James Dorsey

Kambun, histories of Japanese literature, and Japanologists

John Timothy Wixted

A historiography of the blind: the location of history and masochistic ecstasy in ‘The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away’

Hosea Hirata

The politics of loss: on Etō Jun

Ann Sherif

物語の方法と日記文学―『更級日記』を中心に Sarashina nikki

伊藤守幸 Itō Moriyuki

Tsubouchi Shōyō’s negotiations in The Essence of the Novel (Shōsetsu shinzui)

Atsuko Ueda

Cultural ambivalence and sexuality in Tsubouchi Shōyō’s Tōsei shosei katagi

Jim Reichert

Good bye shōsetsu, hello again, monogatari? The validity of restoring contextuality in prose

Atsuko Sakaki

Authoring Shishōsetsu from left to right

Mizumura Minae