In step/out of step: performance/culture/location/dislocation
PAJLS Vol. 23 - 2023
Charles Exley, Christopher Lowy, Elizabeth Oyler, Yoshihiro Yasuhara, Editors
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CONTENTS
CONTENTS
Editors’ Foreword
Charles Exley and Elizabeth Oyler................ iv
Keynote Address
Playing St. Sebastian: A Queer Reading of and Between Literary and Visual Texts from the Modern Period
Hideto Tsuboi................. 3
Papers
The Loss of Narrative Flow: Codification of Tense in Japanese Translations of Sinitic and Sanskrit Renditions of a Buddhist Story
John Bundschuh.............. 17
Female Literary Mentorship in Wartime Women’s Magazines: The Case of Tamura Toshiko and Women’s Voices
Jiayu Gui.............. 28
Patching Cultural Disunity in Post-War Japan: Reading Tanizaki Jun’ichirō’s Fūten rōjin nikki (Diary of a Mad Old Man) as a Parody of Kawabata Yasunari’s Yama no oto (Sound of the Mountain)
Yingzhi Lu.............. 38
A Theory of Resistance: Performativity in Minamoto no Toshiyori’s Poetics of Renga
Mariko Naito.............. 56
Synchronizing Moments: Rhythms of Labor and Dance in Japanese Modernist and Proletarian Literature
Mariko Shigeta Schimmel.............. 72
Narration as a Performance: Between Dazai Osamu’s Multilayered Narrator and Rakugo
Sarah Sherweedy.............. 88
Japanese Performative Schoolgirlhood During World War II
Umehara Yu............ 100
Looking for the Zainichi: Ōshima Nagisa’s Poetics of Documentary in The Forgotten Imperial Army
Yoshihiro Yasuhara............ 109
About the Contributors 121
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