Acts of Writing: Language and Identities in Japanese Literature
Washington University, St. Louis
November 10-12, 2000
Sponsors:Japan Foundation, NEAC of the AAS, and Washington University
The conference will be held on the Washington University campus: The rooms are to be announced.
Friday, November 10, 2000
2:30-3:30 p.m.Registration and Refreshments
3:45-4:00 p.m.Welcoming Remarks: Co-Chairs, Rebecca Copeland, Marvin Marcus, Elizabeth Oyler
4:00-6:00 p.m.Writing Gender and Establishing Cultural Authority in Periods of Cultural Flux --a Panel Organized by Indra Levy
"Writing Like a Man in the Tosa Diary"Gus Heldt, Bard College
"The Specter of Hysteria in San'yūtei Enchō's Shinkei kasanegafuchi"Daniel O'Neill, Yale University
"The Anxiety of Translation: Interlingual Seduction and Betrayal in Futabatei Shimei's Ukigumo" Indra Levy, Rutgers University
"Discourse of Desire and Cultural Topography: The Figure of Woman in Tanizaki's Reflections on Japanese Language" Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University
6:00-7:00 p.m.Keynote Presentation "Semiotic Aspects of the Refined Expression in Classical Japanese: Language and Literature" Zdenka Svarcova, Charles University, Czech Republic
7:00-9:00 p.m.Reception
Saturday, November 12, 2000
8:00-8:30 a.m.Coffee/Tea/Pastries/Juices
8:30-10 a.m.Writing Otherness: Strategies of Literary Appropriation and Nativization
"Archetypes Unbound: Domestication of the Chinese 'Five Imperial Consorts'" Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
"Kambun as Performative Power in Makura no sōshi and Murasaki shikibu nikki" Naomi Fukumori, The Ohio State University
"In a 'Borrowed Tongue': The Representation of Japan in the English Language by Nitobe, Okakura, and Uchimura" Matthew Mizenko, Ursinus College
"'Dreams Come True': Fukuda Tsuneari and the Shakespearean Sub-Text"Daniel Gallimore, Linacre College
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.The Lyrical Word: Language and Identity in Poetry and Poetics
"The Wakan rōei shū: Singing in Harmony or Cannibalization?" Sonja Arntzen, University of Toronto
"Gender, Geography, and Writing in Mabuchi's Nativist Poetics: From Masurao-buri to Taoyame-buri" Lawrence E. Marceau, University of Delaware
"Anzai Fuyue's Empire of Signs: Japanese Poetry in Manchuria" William O. Gardner, Middlebury College
1:30-2:30 p.m.Keynote Presentation "Sōseki's Writing in Kokoro" Yoshihiro Ohsawa, Tokyo University
3:00-4:30 p.m.Crosscurrents: Language Styles and Codes in the Nineteenth Century
"Making the Scene with Shikitei Sanba: Performing Popular Culture"Joshua Young, Cornell University
"Rhetoric as Metalanguage and the Metalanguage of Rhetoric: How Language Defines and Is Defined in the Scholarship of Rhetoric of the Meiji and Taisho Periods" Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington University
"Bound by Bunshoo: Language, Politics, and the Nation in Fukuchi Ōchi's Editorials on Writing" Elizabeth Herman, Stanford University
4:45-6:30 p.m.The Mediated Word: Publishers and Periodicals in Twentieth-Century Literary Production
"Translation in the Age of Mechanical Re-production: Writing in(to) Japanese" Sarah Cox, Brigham Young University
"'Novels You Can Watch/Movies You Can Read': Visual Narrative in 1930s Women's Magazines" Sarah Frederick, Boston University
"Publishing Houses and Court Houses: Ishihara Shintarō's Debut as a Novelist" Ann Sherif, Oberlin College
7:00-9:30 p.m.Banquet
Sunday, November 13, 2000
8:00-8:30 a.m.Coffee/Tea/Juice/Pastries
8:30-10:30 a.m.Writing Exercises: New Positions in Postwar and Contemporary Literary Discourse
"Both Ways Now: Dazai Osamu and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō: Writing the Female in Post War Japan" Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania
"Wresting National Language from the State: Inoue Hisashi's Attempt to Overcome the Modern" Christopher Robins, State University of New York at New Paltz
"The Gender of Solitude: Changing Sexual Identities in Recent Japanese Fiction" Giorgio Amitrano, Naples University of Oriental Studies
"Writing the Limits of Sexual Identities: Tomioka Taeko's 'Straw Dogs' and Nakagami Kenji's 'The Immortal'" Eiji Sekine, Purdue University
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Writing at the Crossroads: Migrations and Mergings in Modern Japanese Literature
"Colonial Ethnography and the Writing of the Exotic: Nishikawa Mitsuru in the Tropics" Faye Yuan Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Ethnic Identities and Various Approaches Towards the Japanese Language: Analysis of Ri Kaisei, Kin Kakuei, and Tachihara Masaaki" Yoshiko Matsuura, Purdue University
"Women in Two Cultures: Nomadic Writers of Japan" Reiko Tachibana, The Pennsylvania State University
12:30 p.m.Closing Remarks
The conference will be held on the Washington University campus: The rooms are to be announced.
Friday, November 10, 2000
2:30-3:30 p.m.Registration and Refreshments
3:45-4:00 p.m.Welcoming Remarks: Co-Chairs, Rebecca Copeland, Marvin Marcus, Elizabeth Oyler
4:00-6:00 p.m.Writing Gender and Establishing Cultural Authority in Periods of Cultural Flux --a Panel Organized by Indra Levy
"Writing Like a Man in the Tosa Diary"Gus Heldt, Bard College
"The Specter of Hysteria in San'yūtei Enchō's Shinkei kasanegafuchi"Daniel O'Neill, Yale University
"The Anxiety of Translation: Interlingual Seduction and Betrayal in Futabatei Shimei's Ukigumo" Indra Levy, Rutgers University
"Discourse of Desire and Cultural Topography: The Figure of Woman in Tanizaki's Reflections on Japanese Language" Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University
6:00-7:00 p.m.Keynote Presentation "Semiotic Aspects of the Refined Expression in Classical Japanese: Language and Literature" Zdenka Svarcova, Charles University, Czech Republic
7:00-9:00 p.m.Reception
Saturday, November 12, 2000
8:00-8:30 a.m.Coffee/Tea/Pastries/Juices
8:30-10 a.m.Writing Otherness: Strategies of Literary Appropriation and Nativization
"Archetypes Unbound: Domestication of the Chinese 'Five Imperial Consorts'" Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
"Kambun as Performative Power in Makura no sōshi and Murasaki shikibu nikki" Naomi Fukumori, The Ohio State University
"In a 'Borrowed Tongue': The Representation of Japan in the English Language by Nitobe, Okakura, and Uchimura" Matthew Mizenko, Ursinus College
"'Dreams Come True': Fukuda Tsuneari and the Shakespearean Sub-Text"Daniel Gallimore, Linacre College
10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.The Lyrical Word: Language and Identity in Poetry and Poetics
"The Wakan rōei shū: Singing in Harmony or Cannibalization?" Sonja Arntzen, University of Toronto
"Gender, Geography, and Writing in Mabuchi's Nativist Poetics: From Masurao-buri to Taoyame-buri" Lawrence E. Marceau, University of Delaware
"Anzai Fuyue's Empire of Signs: Japanese Poetry in Manchuria" William O. Gardner, Middlebury College
1:30-2:30 p.m.Keynote Presentation "Sōseki's Writing in Kokoro" Yoshihiro Ohsawa, Tokyo University
3:00-4:30 p.m.Crosscurrents: Language Styles and Codes in the Nineteenth Century
"Making the Scene with Shikitei Sanba: Performing Popular Culture"Joshua Young, Cornell University
"Rhetoric as Metalanguage and the Metalanguage of Rhetoric: How Language Defines and Is Defined in the Scholarship of Rhetoric of the Meiji and Taisho Periods" Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington University
"Bound by Bunshoo: Language, Politics, and the Nation in Fukuchi Ōchi's Editorials on Writing" Elizabeth Herman, Stanford University
4:45-6:30 p.m.The Mediated Word: Publishers and Periodicals in Twentieth-Century Literary Production
"Translation in the Age of Mechanical Re-production: Writing in(to) Japanese" Sarah Cox, Brigham Young University
"'Novels You Can Watch/Movies You Can Read': Visual Narrative in 1930s Women's Magazines" Sarah Frederick, Boston University
"Publishing Houses and Court Houses: Ishihara Shintarō's Debut as a Novelist" Ann Sherif, Oberlin College
7:00-9:30 p.m.Banquet
Sunday, November 13, 2000
8:00-8:30 a.m.Coffee/Tea/Juice/Pastries
8:30-10:30 a.m.Writing Exercises: New Positions in Postwar and Contemporary Literary Discourse
"Both Ways Now: Dazai Osamu and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō: Writing the Female in Post War Japan" Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania
"Wresting National Language from the State: Inoue Hisashi's Attempt to Overcome the Modern" Christopher Robins, State University of New York at New Paltz
"The Gender of Solitude: Changing Sexual Identities in Recent Japanese Fiction" Giorgio Amitrano, Naples University of Oriental Studies
"Writing the Limits of Sexual Identities: Tomioka Taeko's 'Straw Dogs' and Nakagami Kenji's 'The Immortal'" Eiji Sekine, Purdue University
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Writing at the Crossroads: Migrations and Mergings in Modern Japanese Literature
"Colonial Ethnography and the Writing of the Exotic: Nishikawa Mitsuru in the Tropics" Faye Yuan Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Ethnic Identities and Various Approaches Towards the Japanese Language: Analysis of Ri Kaisei, Kin Kakuei, and Tachihara Masaaki" Yoshiko Matsuura, Purdue University
"Women in Two Cultures: Nomadic Writers of Japan" Reiko Tachibana, The Pennsylvania State University
12:30 p.m.Closing Remarks