Rhetoric and Region: The Local Determinants of Literary Expression
Ohio State University
October 12 - 14, 2012
Friday, October 12
4:00-6:00: OSU Libs, Thompson LibraryRegistration & Welcoming Reception
6:15-8:00: Hagerty 180Spatial Practices in the Center and Regions: Genre, Technology, and Chronotope in Twentieth-Century Culture“Nested Topographies: The Culture and Politics of Mini-FM”Kerim Yasar, U of Notre Dame“Deterritorialization and Hiroshima Literature” Ann Sherif, Oberlin College“’An Ashen Moon’ and the Spatial Practice of Postwar Tokyo”Seiji M. Lippit, UCLA“Obligation, Compassion, and Revolution: Imaginations of Tokyo’s Shitamachi Area in a Socialist Kodan Fiction”Tomoko Seto, U of ChicagoDiscussant: Ann Sherif, Oberlin College
Saturday, October 13
8:00-8:30: Hagerty Hall Welcome Breakfast & Registration
8:30-10:20: Hagerty 180Japanese Literature and Film in International Contexts“Two Views from Paris: Japanese Culture in 1955”Doug Slaymaker, U of Kentucky“Intimacy, Language, and Place: An Analysis of Cultural Identity and Longing in Naoko Ogigami’s ‘Kamome shokudō’ and ‘Toiretto’”Joanne Quimby, Wittenberg U“Abe Kazushige’s Shinsemia and the Enduring Postwar” Jason Herlands, Oberlin College
“Envisioning Contemporary Okinawa: Yoshimoto Banana's and Kirino Natsuo's Depictions of Japan's Last Southern Colony” Oliver E. Kuehne, M.A., U of TuebingenDiscussant: TBD
8:30-10:20: Hagerty 351Place and Contemporary Issues in Fiction“Such an Uncanny Place: Tokyo in Murakami Haruki’s Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,”Chiaki Takagi, U of North Carolina at Greensboro“Miyabe Miyuki and Her Description of Shitamachi Tokyo”Noriko Chino, Independent Scholar“Playing House: Suburbia and Self in Miyabe Miyuki’s R.P.G.” Raechel Dumas, U of Colorado at Boulder“Japanese Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Storms as Archetypal Nihilistic Symbols: an Explication of No Chomei’s The Earthquake, Mccullough’s The Great Earthquake and Sanyo’s Hearing of the Earthquake in Kyoto” Doyin Aguoru, Olabisi Onabanjo UDiscussant: Eiji Sekine, Purdue U
10:30 – 12:20: Hagerty 180The Avant Garde and Internationalization of Literary Language“Takahashi Gen'ichiro's Literary Dialect: Renaming Literature” Michael Tangeman, Denison U“Universalism and Contextualism: Mizumura Minae’s ‘When Japanese Language Perishes (2008)’” Takushi Odagiri, Stanford U“Wordplay in Tawada’s Texts from a Transregional Perspective” Eri Koshikawa, Tsukuba U“Language and Politics in the Dramas of Okada Toshiki” Andreas Regelsberger, Western Michigan UDiscussant: Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan U
10:30 – 12:20: Hagerty 351Place, Poetics, and Other Operations on Language“The Theory of 'Hypnotic Literature': The Japanese Romantic Anti-Symbolism in the Early 20th Century Novels”Shu Sakaguchi“’The Vocabulary of Orientation’ in the Poetry of Sekiguchi Ryoko”Joe DeLong, U of Cincinnati“Yamato as Cultural Memory: Maekawa Samio's Poetry on Nara” Leith D. Morton, Tokyo Tech“Communities of Reception: Edo Period Lending Libraries, their Readers, and Communal Practices of Inscriptive and Tactile Book Defacement” Dylan McGee, Nagoya UDiscussant: Leith D. Morton, Tokyo Tech
12:20 – 1:00: Hagerty HallLunch
1: 00 – 2:50: Hagerty 180Osaka: Alternative Topographies“Resonances of Chindon-ya: Listening to Osaka's Cultural Geographies” Marie Abe, Boston U“Komatsu, Kansai, and Diaspora” William O. Gardner, Swarthmore College“Mastering the Local: Tanizaki and His Critics” Michael P. Cronin, William & Mary“The Provincial Writer's Prison Break: The Case of Kōno Taeko” Mary A. Knighton, William & MaryDiscussant: Livia Monnet, U of Montreal
1: 00 – 2:50: Hagerty 351Semi-Imaginary Places and the Realities of Home in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture“Translating Yokohama: Self-Representation in Early Meiji Translations of Jules Verne” Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan U“Imagining Brazil from a World Away -- Reading and Reception of Ishikawa Tatsuzō's Sogo (Salt of the Earth) in 1930's Japan” Seth Jacobowitz, San Francisco State U“Sesame Street's Place in Japan: Marketing Multicultural New York in Tokyo”Alisa Freedman, U of Oregon“Gulliver in Japan in Gulliver's in Japan” Jonathan Abel, Penn State UDiscussant: Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan U
3:00 – 4:50: Hagerty 180
Film“Out of Place? The Japanese Religious Blockbuster” Rea Amit, Yale U“Gendered Chronotope in Mizoguchi Kenji's ‘Gion no shimai’” Kelly Hansen, San Diego State U“Toward a Socialist Epistemology of Wartime Japan: Tosaka Jun's Writings on Film” Naoki Yamamoto, Yale U“Cinematic Locality and Movie Criticism between ‘Prokino’ and ‘Workers Film and Photo League’” Komei AmemiyaDiscussant: Sharalyn Orbaugh, U of British Columbia
3:00 – 4:50: Hagerty 351Meiji Prose“Mori Ōgai and the Search for Modern Japanese Literary Space: Linguistic Dislocation in His Early Works” Anri Yasuda, U of Southern Cal“Diaries of Conversion: God, Self, and the Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature”Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington U“ ‘A Living God’: Hearn's Hidden Message of Love”Takako Nakai, Nagaya U “Gion in Early Meiji: Narushima Ryūhoku's A Glimpse Of Kyoto's Cats (1874)” Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis UDiscussant: Leith D. Morton, Tokyo Tech
5:00 – 6: 50: Hagerty 180Women, Politics, and the New and Old Proletarian Literature“Japanese Women and Rural Settlement in Wartime Manchukuo: Gendered Expressions of Labor and Productivity in Manshu gurafu, 1940-1944”Annika A. Culver, U of North Carolina at Pembroke“The Space of the Labor Struggle in Japanese-Occupied Manchuria: Early Fiction of Hirabayashi Taiko” Stephen Filler, Oakland U“Against the Storm: The Postwar Japanese Culture through the Real Voice of Working Women, 1946-50” Yumi Soeshima, Stanford U“Who are the Precariats?: Contemporary Japanese Society Mirrored in Literature” Yasuko Claremont, U of SydneyDiscussant: Michael Bourdaghs, U of Chicago
5:00 – 6: 50: Hagerty 351Modern Literary Expression from Tōhoku to Kyūshū“Tokyo-centrism, the Literati, and Provincial Culture” Louise Young, U of Wisconsin-Madison“Modern Education in the Peripheries: Writing Childhood in Tōhoku” Mika Endo, Bard College“The Arrow of Time Won't Let Me Return to Aomori: Terayama Shūji” Steve Ridgely, U of Wisconsin-Madison“Yumeno Kyūsaku, Kyūshū and the Native in the Modern” Nathen Clerici, U of British ColumbiaDiscussant: Hoyt Long, U of Chicago
7:00 – 9:00: Ohio UnionKeynote Address & Conference DinnerSadami Suzuki, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Sunday, October 148:30-10:20: Hagerty 180 Regional Inflections and Dialects“Clanging Bells, Clanging Words: Iwate Dialect in Miyazawa Kenji's ‘Changa Chaga Umako’ Tanka Series” Jon Holt, Portland State U“Tosa-ben and the Severed Self” Kendall Heitzman, U of Iowa“The Dialect Complex of Dazai Osamu as Seen in ‘Regrettable Parting’”Guohe Zheng, Ball State U“Geographically Proximate Postmemory in Medoruma Shun's Fiction” Kyle Ikeda, U of VermontDiscussant: TBD
8:30-10:20: Hagerty 351 Myth, Region, and Literature of the Classical Period“Kiritsubo and Yang Kuei-fei: A Sino-Japanese Dimension” Masako Nakagawa, Villanova U“Poetry Transmission Before the Man’yōshū: the Mysteries of the Akihagino Mokkan” Joshua Frydman, Yale U“Mythical Landscapes and Imaginary Creatures: Pokémon as a Construction of National Unity through Regionalism”Kathryn Hemmann, U of Pennsylvania“Place or Placename: Taira no Kanemori’s Poetic Journey to Suruga in 979”Gian-Piero Persiani, U of OxfordDiscussant: Naomi Fukumori, OSU
10:30 - 12:20: Hagerty 180The Role of Place in Perspectives on Conflict in Modern Fiction“Images of Kanazawa in Izumi Kyōka's ‘Yuna no tamashii’”Artem Vorobiev, OSU“A Failure of De-colonization: Reading the Postcolonial Subject as Double Agent in Kim Sok-bom’s ‘Karasu no Shi (1957)’” Robert Del Greco, OSU“The Struggle between Nostalgia and Reality: The Association of Chinese Literature Studies and Takeda Taijun's ‘Fūbaika’” Yongfei Yi, OSUDiscussant: Richard Torrance, OSU
4:00-6:00: OSU Libs, Thompson LibraryRegistration & Welcoming Reception
6:15-8:00: Hagerty 180Spatial Practices in the Center and Regions: Genre, Technology, and Chronotope in Twentieth-Century Culture“Nested Topographies: The Culture and Politics of Mini-FM”Kerim Yasar, U of Notre Dame“Deterritorialization and Hiroshima Literature” Ann Sherif, Oberlin College“’An Ashen Moon’ and the Spatial Practice of Postwar Tokyo”Seiji M. Lippit, UCLA“Obligation, Compassion, and Revolution: Imaginations of Tokyo’s Shitamachi Area in a Socialist Kodan Fiction”Tomoko Seto, U of ChicagoDiscussant: Ann Sherif, Oberlin College
Saturday, October 13
8:00-8:30: Hagerty Hall Welcome Breakfast & Registration
8:30-10:20: Hagerty 180Japanese Literature and Film in International Contexts“Two Views from Paris: Japanese Culture in 1955”Doug Slaymaker, U of Kentucky“Intimacy, Language, and Place: An Analysis of Cultural Identity and Longing in Naoko Ogigami’s ‘Kamome shokudō’ and ‘Toiretto’”Joanne Quimby, Wittenberg U“Abe Kazushige’s Shinsemia and the Enduring Postwar” Jason Herlands, Oberlin College
“Envisioning Contemporary Okinawa: Yoshimoto Banana's and Kirino Natsuo's Depictions of Japan's Last Southern Colony” Oliver E. Kuehne, M.A., U of TuebingenDiscussant: TBD
8:30-10:20: Hagerty 351Place and Contemporary Issues in Fiction“Such an Uncanny Place: Tokyo in Murakami Haruki’s Wind-Up Bird Chronicle,”Chiaki Takagi, U of North Carolina at Greensboro“Miyabe Miyuki and Her Description of Shitamachi Tokyo”Noriko Chino, Independent Scholar“Playing House: Suburbia and Self in Miyabe Miyuki’s R.P.G.” Raechel Dumas, U of Colorado at Boulder“Japanese Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Storms as Archetypal Nihilistic Symbols: an Explication of No Chomei’s The Earthquake, Mccullough’s The Great Earthquake and Sanyo’s Hearing of the Earthquake in Kyoto” Doyin Aguoru, Olabisi Onabanjo UDiscussant: Eiji Sekine, Purdue U
10:30 – 12:20: Hagerty 180The Avant Garde and Internationalization of Literary Language“Takahashi Gen'ichiro's Literary Dialect: Renaming Literature” Michael Tangeman, Denison U“Universalism and Contextualism: Mizumura Minae’s ‘When Japanese Language Perishes (2008)’” Takushi Odagiri, Stanford U“Wordplay in Tawada’s Texts from a Transregional Perspective” Eri Koshikawa, Tsukuba U“Language and Politics in the Dramas of Okada Toshiki” Andreas Regelsberger, Western Michigan UDiscussant: Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan U
10:30 – 12:20: Hagerty 351Place, Poetics, and Other Operations on Language“The Theory of 'Hypnotic Literature': The Japanese Romantic Anti-Symbolism in the Early 20th Century Novels”Shu Sakaguchi“’The Vocabulary of Orientation’ in the Poetry of Sekiguchi Ryoko”Joe DeLong, U of Cincinnati“Yamato as Cultural Memory: Maekawa Samio's Poetry on Nara” Leith D. Morton, Tokyo Tech“Communities of Reception: Edo Period Lending Libraries, their Readers, and Communal Practices of Inscriptive and Tactile Book Defacement” Dylan McGee, Nagoya UDiscussant: Leith D. Morton, Tokyo Tech
12:20 – 1:00: Hagerty HallLunch
1: 00 – 2:50: Hagerty 180Osaka: Alternative Topographies“Resonances of Chindon-ya: Listening to Osaka's Cultural Geographies” Marie Abe, Boston U“Komatsu, Kansai, and Diaspora” William O. Gardner, Swarthmore College“Mastering the Local: Tanizaki and His Critics” Michael P. Cronin, William & Mary“The Provincial Writer's Prison Break: The Case of Kōno Taeko” Mary A. Knighton, William & MaryDiscussant: Livia Monnet, U of Montreal
1: 00 – 2:50: Hagerty 351Semi-Imaginary Places and the Realities of Home in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture“Translating Yokohama: Self-Representation in Early Meiji Translations of Jules Verne” Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan U“Imagining Brazil from a World Away -- Reading and Reception of Ishikawa Tatsuzō's Sogo (Salt of the Earth) in 1930's Japan” Seth Jacobowitz, San Francisco State U“Sesame Street's Place in Japan: Marketing Multicultural New York in Tokyo”Alisa Freedman, U of Oregon“Gulliver in Japan in Gulliver's in Japan” Jonathan Abel, Penn State UDiscussant: Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan U
3:00 – 4:50: Hagerty 180
Film“Out of Place? The Japanese Religious Blockbuster” Rea Amit, Yale U“Gendered Chronotope in Mizoguchi Kenji's ‘Gion no shimai’” Kelly Hansen, San Diego State U“Toward a Socialist Epistemology of Wartime Japan: Tosaka Jun's Writings on Film” Naoki Yamamoto, Yale U“Cinematic Locality and Movie Criticism between ‘Prokino’ and ‘Workers Film and Photo League’” Komei AmemiyaDiscussant: Sharalyn Orbaugh, U of British Columbia
3:00 – 4:50: Hagerty 351Meiji Prose“Mori Ōgai and the Search for Modern Japanese Literary Space: Linguistic Dislocation in His Early Works” Anri Yasuda, U of Southern Cal“Diaries of Conversion: God, Self, and the Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature”Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington U“ ‘A Living God’: Hearn's Hidden Message of Love”Takako Nakai, Nagaya U “Gion in Early Meiji: Narushima Ryūhoku's A Glimpse Of Kyoto's Cats (1874)” Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis UDiscussant: Leith D. Morton, Tokyo Tech
5:00 – 6: 50: Hagerty 180Women, Politics, and the New and Old Proletarian Literature“Japanese Women and Rural Settlement in Wartime Manchukuo: Gendered Expressions of Labor and Productivity in Manshu gurafu, 1940-1944”Annika A. Culver, U of North Carolina at Pembroke“The Space of the Labor Struggle in Japanese-Occupied Manchuria: Early Fiction of Hirabayashi Taiko” Stephen Filler, Oakland U“Against the Storm: The Postwar Japanese Culture through the Real Voice of Working Women, 1946-50” Yumi Soeshima, Stanford U“Who are the Precariats?: Contemporary Japanese Society Mirrored in Literature” Yasuko Claremont, U of SydneyDiscussant: Michael Bourdaghs, U of Chicago
5:00 – 6: 50: Hagerty 351Modern Literary Expression from Tōhoku to Kyūshū“Tokyo-centrism, the Literati, and Provincial Culture” Louise Young, U of Wisconsin-Madison“Modern Education in the Peripheries: Writing Childhood in Tōhoku” Mika Endo, Bard College“The Arrow of Time Won't Let Me Return to Aomori: Terayama Shūji” Steve Ridgely, U of Wisconsin-Madison“Yumeno Kyūsaku, Kyūshū and the Native in the Modern” Nathen Clerici, U of British ColumbiaDiscussant: Hoyt Long, U of Chicago
7:00 – 9:00: Ohio UnionKeynote Address & Conference DinnerSadami Suzuki, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Sunday, October 148:30-10:20: Hagerty 180 Regional Inflections and Dialects“Clanging Bells, Clanging Words: Iwate Dialect in Miyazawa Kenji's ‘Changa Chaga Umako’ Tanka Series” Jon Holt, Portland State U“Tosa-ben and the Severed Self” Kendall Heitzman, U of Iowa“The Dialect Complex of Dazai Osamu as Seen in ‘Regrettable Parting’”Guohe Zheng, Ball State U“Geographically Proximate Postmemory in Medoruma Shun's Fiction” Kyle Ikeda, U of VermontDiscussant: TBD
8:30-10:20: Hagerty 351 Myth, Region, and Literature of the Classical Period“Kiritsubo and Yang Kuei-fei: A Sino-Japanese Dimension” Masako Nakagawa, Villanova U“Poetry Transmission Before the Man’yōshū: the Mysteries of the Akihagino Mokkan” Joshua Frydman, Yale U“Mythical Landscapes and Imaginary Creatures: Pokémon as a Construction of National Unity through Regionalism”Kathryn Hemmann, U of Pennsylvania“Place or Placename: Taira no Kanemori’s Poetic Journey to Suruga in 979”Gian-Piero Persiani, U of OxfordDiscussant: Naomi Fukumori, OSU
10:30 - 12:20: Hagerty 180The Role of Place in Perspectives on Conflict in Modern Fiction“Images of Kanazawa in Izumi Kyōka's ‘Yuna no tamashii’”Artem Vorobiev, OSU“A Failure of De-colonization: Reading the Postcolonial Subject as Double Agent in Kim Sok-bom’s ‘Karasu no Shi (1957)’” Robert Del Greco, OSU“The Struggle between Nostalgia and Reality: The Association of Chinese Literature Studies and Takeda Taijun's ‘Fūbaika’” Yongfei Yi, OSUDiscussant: Richard Torrance, OSU