Issues of Canonicity and Canon Formation in Japanese Literary Studies
University of Colorado, Boulder
November 12-14, 1999
Sponsored by:
Japan Foundation, NEAC of the AAS, Center for Asian Studies (CU, Boulder),and the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (CU, Boulder)
Friday, November 12
8:45 a.m.Welcoming Remarks
9-10:30 a.m.Outsiders on the Inside--Okinawan, Resident Korean, Colonial, and Buraku Literature and the Canon
Kirsten Cather, UC Berkeley: "Okinawans and the Akutagawa Prize--Criticizing the Critics"
Kim Kono, UC Berkeley: "Colonial Literature and the Canon"
Sayuri Oyama, UC Berkeley: "Buraku Literature as (non-)Canonical?"
Melissa Wender, University of Chicago: "Between Anxiety and Celebration--Admitting Resident Korean Literature to the Bundan"
Alan Tansman, Georgetown University: Discussant
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.Genre, Poetics, and Modernity in Construction of Japanese LiteraryTradition (Part 1)
Joshua Mostow, U. of British Columbia: "Canonization and Commodification: Illustrations to the Tales of Ise in the Early Modern and Modern Eras"
Robert Khan, U. of Texas: "The Strange Fate of Court Monogatari after Genji"
David Bialock, U. of Southern California: "Canons and Heresies: Reassessing The Tale of the Heike"
1:30-2:30 p.m.Keynote Address
Kubota Jun, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University: "Izumi Kyōka no sakuhin no Nihonteki tokusei ni tsuite"
2:45-4:15 p.m.Genre, Poetics, and Modernity in Construction of Japanese LiteraryTradition" (Part II)
Haruo Shirane, Columbia University: "Construction of Poetic Essence (Hon'i) as Japanese Literary Canon"
Peter Flueckiger, Columbia University: "The Discourse of 'Makoto' and the Canonization of Tokugawa Waka"
Masaaki Kinugasa, Teikyo Heisei University: "Aesthetic Politics and Literary History: Shinkokinshū and Kazamaki Keijirō"
4:30-5:30 p.m.Keynote AddressKeynote Speaker [TBA]
6:30 p.m. -Reception and Dinner
Saturday, November 13
8:30-10:15 a.m.Concealment of Politics/Politics of Concealment
Atsuko Ueda, Stanford University: "De-Politicization of Literature: Social Darwinism and Interiority"
James Reichert, Stanford University: "The Politics of Traditional Aesthetics"
Ono Ryōji, Rikkyo University: "'Literariness' of Shiga Naoya: The Interpretive Code of 'Literature'"
Heather Bowen-Struyk, U. of Michigan: "Proletarian Literary HistoryReconsidered"
Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley University: "Nakagami Kenji/Dreaming in Sound"
10:30 a.m. -12 p.m.Counterfeits, Cannibals, and Crusaders: Reinventing 'Classics' from the Inside Out
Paul S. Atkins, Montana State University: "Fabricating Teika: The Usagi Forgeries and Their Authentic Influence"
Charo B. D'Etcheverry, Princeton University: "Teika, Sanetaka, and Fujioka's Sagoromo"
Stefania Burk, UC Berkeley: "Political License and the Poetic Canon of the Imperial Waka Anthologies"
Laurel Rasplica Rodd, U. of Colorado: Discussant
1:30-2:30 p.m.Keynote AddressTakahashi Mutsuo, author, "Kanon no idenshi: Honka o megutte"
2:45-4:15 p.m.Nuns, Farmers, and Chocolatiers: Adaptations of the Canon Across Time and Space in Japanese Poetry
Roger Thomas, Illinois State U.: "In His Footsteps: Shokyū-ni and the Canonization of Bashō"
Nobuko Adachi, Illinois State U.: "Shiki ariki Nōhon-shugi: Reconsiderations of the Haiku Canon by Japanese-Brazilian Farm Poets"
James Stanlaw, Illinois State U.: "'Chocolate Translations,' 'Bittersweet Revolutions,' and 'Tanka and Photo': Tawara Machi's New Renditions of Midaregami and Questions of Canonicity in Modern Japanese Classical Poetry"
4:30-6:30 p.m.Issues of Canonicity from Meiji to Today
Leith Morton, U. of Newcastle, Australia: "The Canonicity of Yosano Akiko's Midaregami"
Faye Kleeman, U. of Colorado: "The Boundary of Japaneseness: Between "Nihon bungaku" and "Nihongo bungaku"
Jeffrey Angles, Ohio State University: "Discovering and Textualizing Memory: The Tsuioku Shōsetsu of Naka Kansuke and Takahashi Mutsuo"
Ken K. Ito, U. of Michigan: "From the Margins of the Canon: Kikuchi Yūhō and the Katei Shōsetsu"
Rachel DiNitto, U. of Washington: "In Search of Insignificance?: Modern Literary Anthologies, Premodern Genres, and the Failed Canonization of Uchida Hyakken"
Sunday, November 14
9-10 a.m.Keynote AddressSuzuki Sadami, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan:"From Canon Formation to Evaluational Reformation: Man'yō, Genji, and Bashō"
10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.Early Sitings and Codifications of a Classical Literary Canon
Stephen M. Forrest, U. of Massachusetts: "Strangers Within: Nōin Shū and the Canonical Status of Private Poetry Collections"
Edith Sarra, Indiana University: "Mothers, Fathers, and Family Gossip: Mumyōzōshi and the Beginnings of a Canon of Late Heian Tales"
Sook-Young Wang, Inha University, Korea: "Rengashi Sōgi no kotengaku: Kokinshū Chūshaku o megutte" ("The Kokinshu Commentaries and the Classical Studies of Renga Master Sōgi")
Lynn Miyake, Pomona College: "'Siting Translation': Translation and Classical Japanese Literary Canon Formation in the United States"
Japan Foundation, NEAC of the AAS, Center for Asian Studies (CU, Boulder),and the Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (CU, Boulder)
Friday, November 12
8:45 a.m.Welcoming Remarks
9-10:30 a.m.Outsiders on the Inside--Okinawan, Resident Korean, Colonial, and Buraku Literature and the Canon
Kirsten Cather, UC Berkeley: "Okinawans and the Akutagawa Prize--Criticizing the Critics"
Kim Kono, UC Berkeley: "Colonial Literature and the Canon"
Sayuri Oyama, UC Berkeley: "Buraku Literature as (non-)Canonical?"
Melissa Wender, University of Chicago: "Between Anxiety and Celebration--Admitting Resident Korean Literature to the Bundan"
Alan Tansman, Georgetown University: Discussant
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.Genre, Poetics, and Modernity in Construction of Japanese LiteraryTradition (Part 1)
Joshua Mostow, U. of British Columbia: "Canonization and Commodification: Illustrations to the Tales of Ise in the Early Modern and Modern Eras"
Robert Khan, U. of Texas: "The Strange Fate of Court Monogatari after Genji"
David Bialock, U. of Southern California: "Canons and Heresies: Reassessing The Tale of the Heike"
1:30-2:30 p.m.Keynote Address
Kubota Jun, Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University: "Izumi Kyōka no sakuhin no Nihonteki tokusei ni tsuite"
2:45-4:15 p.m.Genre, Poetics, and Modernity in Construction of Japanese LiteraryTradition" (Part II)
Haruo Shirane, Columbia University: "Construction of Poetic Essence (Hon'i) as Japanese Literary Canon"
Peter Flueckiger, Columbia University: "The Discourse of 'Makoto' and the Canonization of Tokugawa Waka"
Masaaki Kinugasa, Teikyo Heisei University: "Aesthetic Politics and Literary History: Shinkokinshū and Kazamaki Keijirō"
4:30-5:30 p.m.Keynote AddressKeynote Speaker [TBA]
6:30 p.m. -Reception and Dinner
Saturday, November 13
8:30-10:15 a.m.Concealment of Politics/Politics of Concealment
Atsuko Ueda, Stanford University: "De-Politicization of Literature: Social Darwinism and Interiority"
James Reichert, Stanford University: "The Politics of Traditional Aesthetics"
Ono Ryōji, Rikkyo University: "'Literariness' of Shiga Naoya: The Interpretive Code of 'Literature'"
Heather Bowen-Struyk, U. of Michigan: "Proletarian Literary HistoryReconsidered"
Eve Zimmerman, Wellesley University: "Nakagami Kenji/Dreaming in Sound"
10:30 a.m. -12 p.m.Counterfeits, Cannibals, and Crusaders: Reinventing 'Classics' from the Inside Out
Paul S. Atkins, Montana State University: "Fabricating Teika: The Usagi Forgeries and Their Authentic Influence"
Charo B. D'Etcheverry, Princeton University: "Teika, Sanetaka, and Fujioka's Sagoromo"
Stefania Burk, UC Berkeley: "Political License and the Poetic Canon of the Imperial Waka Anthologies"
Laurel Rasplica Rodd, U. of Colorado: Discussant
1:30-2:30 p.m.Keynote AddressTakahashi Mutsuo, author, "Kanon no idenshi: Honka o megutte"
2:45-4:15 p.m.Nuns, Farmers, and Chocolatiers: Adaptations of the Canon Across Time and Space in Japanese Poetry
Roger Thomas, Illinois State U.: "In His Footsteps: Shokyū-ni and the Canonization of Bashō"
Nobuko Adachi, Illinois State U.: "Shiki ariki Nōhon-shugi: Reconsiderations of the Haiku Canon by Japanese-Brazilian Farm Poets"
James Stanlaw, Illinois State U.: "'Chocolate Translations,' 'Bittersweet Revolutions,' and 'Tanka and Photo': Tawara Machi's New Renditions of Midaregami and Questions of Canonicity in Modern Japanese Classical Poetry"
4:30-6:30 p.m.Issues of Canonicity from Meiji to Today
Leith Morton, U. of Newcastle, Australia: "The Canonicity of Yosano Akiko's Midaregami"
Faye Kleeman, U. of Colorado: "The Boundary of Japaneseness: Between "Nihon bungaku" and "Nihongo bungaku"
Jeffrey Angles, Ohio State University: "Discovering and Textualizing Memory: The Tsuioku Shōsetsu of Naka Kansuke and Takahashi Mutsuo"
Ken K. Ito, U. of Michigan: "From the Margins of the Canon: Kikuchi Yūhō and the Katei Shōsetsu"
Rachel DiNitto, U. of Washington: "In Search of Insignificance?: Modern Literary Anthologies, Premodern Genres, and the Failed Canonization of Uchida Hyakken"
Sunday, November 14
9-10 a.m.Keynote AddressSuzuki Sadami, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan:"From Canon Formation to Evaluational Reformation: Man'yō, Genji, and Bashō"
10:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m.Early Sitings and Codifications of a Classical Literary Canon
Stephen M. Forrest, U. of Massachusetts: "Strangers Within: Nōin Shū and the Canonical Status of Private Poetry Collections"
Edith Sarra, Indiana University: "Mothers, Fathers, and Family Gossip: Mumyōzōshi and the Beginnings of a Canon of Late Heian Tales"
Sook-Young Wang, Inha University, Korea: "Rengashi Sōgi no kotengaku: Kokinshū Chūshaku o megutte" ("The Kokinshu Commentaries and the Classical Studies of Renga Master Sōgi")
Lynn Miyake, Pomona College: "'Siting Translation': Translation and Classical Japanese Literary Canon Formation in the United States"