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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 835–837.
Published: 01 December 2010
...Keith Byerman © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 National History and the World of Nations: Capital, State, and the Rhetoric of History in Japan, France, and the United States . By Christopher L. Hill. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2008. xvi, 351 pp. Cloth, $89.95; paper, $24.95...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 387–390.
Published: 01 June 2020
... . By Zhaoming Qian . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2017 . xv, 187 pp. Cloth, $ 70.00 ; paper, $ 29.50 ; e-book, $ 29.50 . Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America . By Andrew C. McKevitt . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2017 . x...
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in The “Comfort” Of Critical Consolidation: Pedagogy, Ethical Alienation, and Asian American Literary Studies
> American Literature
Published: 01 June 2017
Figure 1. The Statue of Peace , located in front of the Embassy of Japan in Seoul. Image courtesy of YunHo Lee
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 121–149.
Published: 01 March 2010
... that gained global currency in the media surround of the mid-1930s, triggered by the rumored alliance of two colored empire-nations, Ethiopia and Japan. Black Empire , narrated in the first person by one Carl Slater, ex-reporter for the Harlem Blade , presents a rendition of race war that both participates...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (2): 333–359.
Published: 01 June 2009
... of colonization and conquest, associating Native America and Japan in a number of ways and generating poems that address the conquest of the Americas with surprising consistency. Japanese Americans writing from internment camps during World War II (Violet Matsuda de Cristoforo) associated their own removal...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 March 2007
... characters unite on the common ground of
war. The novel tells the story of Kiyo Kurakawa, a widowed Japanese
man who returns to Japan from the United States with his new wife
Ellen, an Anglo-American. Together with her two children, Ellen ex-
periences the challenges and novelties of moving to Japan...
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American Literature (2000) 72 (3): 521–552.
Published: 01 September 2000
... into the dynamic world system being re-
shaped from Japan and China to the Isthmus of Panama and the neo-
colonial ports of the Pacific Rim was communication with and repre-
sentation of Hawai‘i, which served as a mediating space...
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American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 17–47.
Published: 01 March 2022
..., not Hollywood or New York, has been the center of game innovation and genre creation from which nearly all game genres derive. For game scholar and philosopher Chris Goto-Jones ( 2015 : 39–40), Japan’s enormous impact on video game aesthetics and form has molded games as “a medium of Digital Asia,” even when...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 331–354.
Published: 01 June 2017
...Figure 1. The Statue of Peace , located in front of the Embassy of Japan in Seoul. Image courtesy of YunHo Lee ...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 417–444.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of the environment seemed imminent. Americans found a xenophobic outlet for their fear of overdevelopment: Japan’s economic rise. In the early 1980s, the United States was the largest creditor nation in the world; by 1986, Japan had taken its place as the largest creditor nation, with the United States...
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American Literature 11611101.
Published: 09 October 2024
... the historical experiences of Japan and Korea. Despite the different contexts discussed in these books, it becomes clear that a variety of different sub elds within US literary study continue to analyze the force of marginalization at the heart of the US constitution of citizens, a force that today inspires...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 701–728.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of resistance and regeneration.” The latter attempts to bring together two heretofore unlinked Korean diasporic subjects, Zainichi (resident Koreans in Japan) and Korean Americans, stressing how American military juridical systems in East Asia have been crucial in forming diasporic Korean subjectivities. See...
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American Literature (2006) 78 (1): 195–203.
Published: 01 March 2006
... notebooks and the books published during the last decade of his life.
Mark Twain in Japan: The Cultural Reception of an American Icon. By Tsuyoshi Ishihara.
Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press. 2005. xix, 178 pp. $34.95.
Ishihara’s study of the ‘‘Japanization’’ of Mark Twain makes an important inter...
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Aztlán’s Asians: Forging and Forgetting Cross-Racial Relations in the Chicana/O Literary Imagination
American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 563–589.
Published: 01 September 2013
... in the Southwest .” Communist 18 , no. 3 : 257 – 68 . Thorne Christopher . 1978 . Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain, and the War against Japan, 1941-1945 . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Valdez Luis . ( 1966 ) 2002 .“ The Plan de Delano .” In Jensen and Hammerback , 16...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 411–414.
Published: 01 June 2016
... in Japan (a country from which he was swiftly expelled). Reading different drafts of Hughes’s 1956 memoir I Wonder as I Wander , Taketani highlights the international drama that unfolded at this delicate interwar juncture following the Manchurian Incident, during which Japan was intensely wary of Soviet...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 327–351.
Published: 01 June 2012
... and the Evolving
Rhetoric of Nuclear Energy Activism
In late March of 2011, the most powerful earthquake
in Japan’s recorded history struck the country’s northern coast, trig-
gering a tsunami that destroyed entire villages and killed over ten
thousand people...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 213–220.
Published: 01 March 2015
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Adding to recent critical interest in Wright’s composition of over four thou-
sand haikus in the last eighteen months of his life, this inquiry considers his
late haiku practice within a longer history of artistic exchange between Japan,
Europe, and America. With chapters on the development...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (3): 619–633.
Published: 01 September 2002
... of Japan: ‘‘On
August 6, 1945, a month after the detonation of the first atomic bomb
in the New Mexico desert, ‘Little Boy’ fell from the skies above Hiro-
shima’’ (3). Moving on to the absurd and often ridiculed ‘‘duck and
cover’’ instructions that were intended to provide Americans with a
kind...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (3): 525–547.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., secret agents, representatives,
and subjects, and the military allies of the said Kingdom of Italy,
including the Government of the German Reich and the Imperial
Government of Japan, with which the United States at all times
since December 11, 1941, have been at war, giving to the said ene...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 895–897.
Published: 01 December 2019
... connections between literature and space but between literatures mediated by translators such as R. H. Blyth, who was interned as an enemy alien in Japan during World War II. “Unlike European literatures,” Hakutani argues, “American literature has become a hybridization of Eastern and Western literatures” (3...
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