Reading Material: the Production of Narratives, Genres
and Literary Identities
Dartmouth College
October 7 - 9, 2005
Friday, October 7
Session 1: 3:30 ~ 5:30 Carson L02
PANEL: ???: Editing, Typing, and the Materiality of Modern Japanese Literature
Sarah Frederick, Boston University“Aposiopesis and Completion: Yoshiya Nobuko’s Typographic Melodrama”
Sari Kawana, University of Massachusetts-Boston“Making Money to His Heart’s Content: Kikuchi Kan’s Literary Contribution as Editor”
Jonathan Abel, Princeton University“Genealogies of X-ing: Not to Mention Fuseji, Fug, and Other Fig Leaves . . .”
Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto“Is the Pen Mightier Than the Mouse? Phenomenology of Japanese Word Processing”
Session 2: 5:45~7:15Carson L02
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Christian Ratcliff, Yale University“Willful Copyists and the Transmission of Suspect Narratives of Literary Production”
Dylan McGee, Princeton University“Rendered in Kana, Etched in Azusa: Translation and Materiality in the Woodblock Print Editions of Three Early Yomihon” Kelly Hansen, University of Hawai’i“From Space to Time: The Fiction of Kanagaki Robun”
Reception Rauner Special Collections 7:30~9:00
Saturday, October 8
Session 3: 8;30 ~ 10:30Carson L02
PANEL: The Reach of Hegemony: Tokyo Literature Outside of the Metropole
Kono Kensuke, Nihon Daigaku「地方」で読む徳田秋声ーー地方新聞と東京の作家たち
Jonathan Zwicker, University of Michigan“Reading Roka in Kyongsong: Notes on the Japanese Book Trade in Early Colonial Korea”
Ted Mack, University of Washington“Seattle’s Little Tokyo: Bundan Fiction and the Japanese Diaspora”
Wada Atsuhiko, Shinshu daigaku日本の書籍の渡米とその後ーー戦後書物流通史 の一側面
Session 4: 10:45~12:15Carson L02
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Jonathan Hall, UC Irvine“Caught in the Cogs: The Cinematic Literary in Inagaki Taruho”
Deborah Shamoon, UC Berkeley“Naomi as Vamp: Cinematic Vision and Visual Narrative in Chijin no ai”
Doug Slaymaker, University of Kentucky“Reading the Visual Text: Tawada Yoko’s Tabi wo suru hadaka no me”
Session 5: 2~:4:00Carson L02
PANEL: Reading Visuality in Early Meiji Japan: Photography, Illustration and Popular Literature
Charles Shirô Inoue, Tufts University“What Happened to the Pictures? The Suppression of Figurality and the Development of Modern Consciousness”
Matthew Fraleigh, Harvard University“Wang Zhaojun’s New Portrait: Photography and New Media in Mid-19th Century Kanshibun”
Seth Jacobowitz, Cornell University“Photography and Automatic Writing as Idée Fixe in Kōyō’s The Gold Demon”
John Mertz, North Carolina State University“High Seas Adventure Novels and the Epic Mode of Visuality”
Session 6: 4:15~5:15Carson L02
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Sharalyn Orbaugh, University of British Columbia“Kamishibai and the Construction of the Social/National Imaginary”
Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia“The Lexicalization of Imagery and Book Illustration in the Early Edo Period”
DinnerDartmouth Outing Club5:45~ 7:30
Keynote addressDartmouth Outing Club7:30~8:45
Jordan Sand, Georgetown University"From Everyday Life to Print: The Production of Texts in Two Modern Japanese Genres"
Sunday October 9
Session 7: 8:30~10:30Carson L02
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Karen Thornber, Harvard University“Manipulating Japanese Literature in the Semi-Colonial China: The Enpon Boom, the Uchiyama Shoten, and the Growth of Transasian Literary Communities”
Ann Sherif, Oberlin College“Surviving the Red Purge: Activist Literature and Publishers in the Cold War”
Michiko Suzuki, Indiana University“Female Heroes and Prewar Magazines: The Production of Intratextual Meaning”
Session 8: 10:45 ~12:45Carson L02
PANEL: Picturing the Text: On the Verbal and Visual in Reading
Shu Kuge, Pennsylvania State University“The Impenetrable Surface of Japanese Writing: Mishima Reads Ōgai”
Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and Clark College“Screening the Letter: Technology and Spectatorship in Ōe Kenzaburō’s Seventeen”
Kirsten Cather, University of Texas at Austin“Dead Words and Live Images”
Keith Vincent, NYUDiscussant
Session 1: 3:30 ~ 5:30 Carson L02
PANEL: ???: Editing, Typing, and the Materiality of Modern Japanese Literature
Sarah Frederick, Boston University“Aposiopesis and Completion: Yoshiya Nobuko’s Typographic Melodrama”
Sari Kawana, University of Massachusetts-Boston“Making Money to His Heart’s Content: Kikuchi Kan’s Literary Contribution as Editor”
Jonathan Abel, Princeton University“Genealogies of X-ing: Not to Mention Fuseji, Fug, and Other Fig Leaves . . .”
Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto“Is the Pen Mightier Than the Mouse? Phenomenology of Japanese Word Processing”
Session 2: 5:45~7:15Carson L02
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Christian Ratcliff, Yale University“Willful Copyists and the Transmission of Suspect Narratives of Literary Production”
Dylan McGee, Princeton University“Rendered in Kana, Etched in Azusa: Translation and Materiality in the Woodblock Print Editions of Three Early Yomihon” Kelly Hansen, University of Hawai’i“From Space to Time: The Fiction of Kanagaki Robun”
Reception Rauner Special Collections 7:30~9:00
Saturday, October 8
Session 3: 8;30 ~ 10:30Carson L02
PANEL: The Reach of Hegemony: Tokyo Literature Outside of the Metropole
Kono Kensuke, Nihon Daigaku「地方」で読む徳田秋声ーー地方新聞と東京の作家たち
Jonathan Zwicker, University of Michigan“Reading Roka in Kyongsong: Notes on the Japanese Book Trade in Early Colonial Korea”
Ted Mack, University of Washington“Seattle’s Little Tokyo: Bundan Fiction and the Japanese Diaspora”
Wada Atsuhiko, Shinshu daigaku日本の書籍の渡米とその後ーー戦後書物流通史 の一側面
Session 4: 10:45~12:15Carson L02
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Jonathan Hall, UC Irvine“Caught in the Cogs: The Cinematic Literary in Inagaki Taruho”
Deborah Shamoon, UC Berkeley“Naomi as Vamp: Cinematic Vision and Visual Narrative in Chijin no ai”
Doug Slaymaker, University of Kentucky“Reading the Visual Text: Tawada Yoko’s Tabi wo suru hadaka no me”
Session 5: 2~:4:00Carson L02
PANEL: Reading Visuality in Early Meiji Japan: Photography, Illustration and Popular Literature
Charles Shirô Inoue, Tufts University“What Happened to the Pictures? The Suppression of Figurality and the Development of Modern Consciousness”
Matthew Fraleigh, Harvard University“Wang Zhaojun’s New Portrait: Photography and New Media in Mid-19th Century Kanshibun”
Seth Jacobowitz, Cornell University“Photography and Automatic Writing as Idée Fixe in Kōyō’s The Gold Demon”
John Mertz, North Carolina State University“High Seas Adventure Novels and the Epic Mode of Visuality”
Session 6: 4:15~5:15Carson L02
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Sharalyn Orbaugh, University of British Columbia“Kamishibai and the Construction of the Social/National Imaginary”
Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia“The Lexicalization of Imagery and Book Illustration in the Early Edo Period”
DinnerDartmouth Outing Club5:45~ 7:30
Keynote addressDartmouth Outing Club7:30~8:45
Jordan Sand, Georgetown University"From Everyday Life to Print: The Production of Texts in Two Modern Japanese Genres"
Sunday October 9
Session 7: 8:30~10:30Carson L02
INDIVIDUAL PAPERS
Karen Thornber, Harvard University“Manipulating Japanese Literature in the Semi-Colonial China: The Enpon Boom, the Uchiyama Shoten, and the Growth of Transasian Literary Communities”
Ann Sherif, Oberlin College“Surviving the Red Purge: Activist Literature and Publishers in the Cold War”
Michiko Suzuki, Indiana University“Female Heroes and Prewar Magazines: The Production of Intratextual Meaning”
Session 8: 10:45 ~12:45Carson L02
PANEL: Picturing the Text: On the Verbal and Visual in Reading
Shu Kuge, Pennsylvania State University“The Impenetrable Surface of Japanese Writing: Mishima Reads Ōgai”
Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and Clark College“Screening the Letter: Technology and Spectatorship in Ōe Kenzaburō’s Seventeen”
Kirsten Cather, University of Texas at Austin“Dead Words and Live Images”
Keith Vincent, NYUDiscussant