Writing Otherness:  Strategies of Literary Appropriation and Nativization

Archetypes Unbound: Domestication of the Five Chinese Imperial Consorts

Atsuko Sakaki                       85

 

Chinese Learning as Performative Power in Makura no soshi and Murasaki Shikibu nikki

Naomi Fukumori                  101

 

In a "Borrowed Tongue:"   The Representation of Japan in the English Language by Nitobe, Okakura, and Uchimura

Matthew Mizenko               120

 

"Dreams Come True:" Fukuda Tsuneari and the Shakespearean Sub-Text

Daniel Gallimore                  138

The Lyrical Word:  Language and Identity in Poetry and Poetics

The Wakan roeishu: Cannibalization or Singing in Harmony?

Sonja Arntzen                       155

 

Gender, Geography, and Writing in Mabuchi's  Nativist Poetics:  From Masurao-buri to Taoyame-buri

Lawrence E. Marceau         172

 

Anzai Fuyue's Empire of Signs: Japanese Poetry in Manchuria

William O. Gardner             187

Crosscurrents:  Language Styles and Codes in the Nineteenth Century

Making the Scene with Shikitei Sanba

Joshua Young                       203

 

Rhetoric as Metalanguage and the Metalanguage of  Rhetoric:  How Language Defines and is Defined in the Scholarship of Rhetoric of the Meiji and Taisho Period

Massimiliano Tomasi         220

The Mediated word:  Publishers and Periodicals in Twentieth-Century Literary Production
  

Translation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Writing In(to) Japanese

Sarah Cox                               239

 

"Novels You Can Watch/Movies You Can Read:" Visual Narrative in 1930s Women's Magazines

Sarah Frederick                     254

 

Mass Culture,  the Literary Establishment, and Season of the Sun:  Ishihara Shintaro's Debut

Ann Sherif                               275

Writing Exercises:  New Positions in Postwar and Contemporary Literary Discourse

Both Ways Now:  Dazai Osamu and Tanizaki Jun'ichiro Writing the Female in Postwar Japan

Linda H. Chance                   293

 

Wresting National Language from the State:  Inoue Hisashi's Attempt to Overcome the Modern

Christopher Robins             313

 

The Gender of Solitude:  Changing Sexual Identities in Recent Japanese Fiction

Giorgio Amitrano                326

 

Writing the Limits of Sexuality:  Tomioka Taeko's "Straw Dogs" and Nakagami Kenji's "The Immortal"

Eiji Sekine                        338

Writing at the Crossroads:  Migrations and Mergings in Modern Japanese Literature

Colonial Ethnography and the Writing of the Exotic:  Nishikawa Mitsuru in Taiwan

Faye Yuan Kleeman                             355

 

Ethnic Identities and Various Approaches towards the Japanese Language:  An Analysis of Ri Kaisei, Kin Kakuei, and Tachihara Masaaki

Yoshiko Matsuura                                 378

 

Nomadic Writers of Japan:  Tawada Yoko and Mizumura Minae

Reiko Tachibana                                   400

About the Contributors                    423