Association for Japanese Literary Studies
 Fourteenth Annual Meeting

Reading Material:
The Production of Narratives, Genres
 and Literary Identities

 

October 7, 8, 9 2005
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
AJLS 2005 home


Schedule

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: 5:45~7:15
Carson L02

INDIVIDUAL PAPERS

Christian Ratcliff, Yale Universiity
“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: TheFiction of Kanagaki Robun”


Reception
Rauner Special Collections 7:30~9:00



Saturday, October 8


Session 3:  8;30 ~ 10:30
Carson 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: 10:45~12:15

Carson 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~:4:00

Carson L02


PANEL: Reading Visuality in Early Meiji Japan: Photography, Illustration and Popular Literature

Charles Shirô Inoue, Tufts Universiity
“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 Kôyô’s The Gold Demon”

John Mertz, North Carolina State University
    “High Seas Adventure Novels and the Epic Mode of Visuality”

Session 6: 4:15~5:15
Carson 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”


Dinner
Dartmouth Outing Club
5:45~ 7:30

Keynote address
Dartmouth Outing Club
7:30~8:45

Jordan Sand, Georgetown University
"From Everyday Life to Print: The Production of Texts in Two Modern Japanese Genres"



Sunday October 9

Session 7: 8:30~10:30
Carson 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 ~12:45
Carson 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 Ôgai”

Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and Clark College
“Screening the Letter: Technology and Spectatorship in Ôe Kenzaburô’s Seventeen”

Kirsten Cather, University of Texas at Austin
    “Dead Words and Live Images”

Keith Vincent, NYU
Discussant