Front Matter, Including an Editors’ Preface by Paul Gordon Schalow and Janet A. Walker

Paul Gordon Schalow, Editor; Janet A. Walker, Editor

Keynote address: the transformation of Ōba Minako’s world of monogatari

Noriko Mizuta

Keynote address: the garden and the sky: gender and space in the films of Miyazaki Hayao

Susan Napier

A nomadic sensibility: wandering, belonging, and identity in Ōba Minako’s The Junk Museum

Emanuela Costa

Performative reproductions and myth-making in Ōba Minako’s Funakuimushi

Francesco Comotti

Recreating woman’s identity in a trans-cultural in-between space: Ōba Minako’s Oregon yume jūya

Paola Scrolavezza

大庭みな子の詩における「山姥」というジェンダーを超越したメタファーについて The Metaphorical Yamamba (Mountain Witch) Who Transcends Gender: Reading Ōba Minako’s Poetry

Mano Takako 真野孝子

Perversely reading manga

Mary A. Knighton

Imitation and desire in Sedgwick and Sōseki

J. Keith Vincent

Between men in Izumi Kyōka’s Yōken kibun

Nina Cornyetz

The fatal charm of the ‘real onnagata’ in Enchi’s works: an analysis of Onnagata Ichidai from a gender perspective

Daniela Moro

尾崎翠と多和田葉子にみる「分身」 “Doubles” in the Works of Osaki Midori and Tawada Yōko

宮崎紗英子 Miyazaki Saeko

川上弘美の「蛇を踏む」「センセイの鞄」から: ポスト・ジェンダー社会の中で「他者」との共存をさぐる Kawakami Hiromi’s Treading on Snakes and The Teacher’s Briefcase: Coexistence with the “Other” in Postgendered Society

伊原美好 Ihara, Miyoshi

Spatially conceived: gender, desire, and identity in Yi Yang-Ji’s Yuhi

Catherine Ryu

In pursuit of success: Kanshi poet Hara Saihin’s masquerade of masculinity

Mari Nagase

A woman named ‘Otoko’: moral certainty and gender indeterminancy in Kyokutei Bakin’s Eight Dogs

Glynne Walley

Enjirō’s revenge: parodic constructions of masculinity in early modern kibyōshi

Dylan McGee

Kinshi’s letters: writing about women’s writing, 938 C.E.

Brian Steininger

‘Allied masculinities’ and the absent presences of the other: recuperation of Japanese soldiers in the age of American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: an analysis of Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima

Rika Nakamura

Treasonous masculinity: the Osaka man in trans-war fiction

Michael P. Cronin

Yoru no nezame and the fictional limits of late-Heian aristocratic motherhood

Edith Sarra

Good mother, bad mother: reading the Jōjin azari no haha no shū through the lens of gender

Monika Dix

Male mother and female father, or both in one: problematizing gendered parenthood in Ariake no wakare

Robert Khan

Cultural politics of the ‘Girl’ in postbubble Japan

Rachel Dinitto

Degendering ecodegradation and rethinking ecofeminisms in the writing of Kurihara Sadako, Sakaki Nanao, and Ishimure Michiko

Karen Thornber

A literary assault on neo-liberalism: Shōno Yoriko’s ‘Don Quixote’s debate’

Robin Tierney

Dial ‘L’ for love: the romantic cell phone tones of Ren’ai Shōsetsu

Eileen Mikals-Adachi

Re-imagining Ozu: Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Café Lumière and the contemporary Tokyo woman

Barbara E. Thornbury

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