... themselves (Pai Hsien-yung and Nieh Hua-ling), as well as by Anglo-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro and examines the trope of psychosis as a response to (failed) acculturation. Part 2 considers the persistence...

...Gretchen Murphy Duke University Press 2007 Gretchen How the Irish Became Japanese: Murphy Winnifred Eaton’s Racial Reconstructions in a Transnational Context In Winnifred Eaton’s 1906 novel A Japanese Blossom, American and Japanese...

...Erin Suzuki Abstract Written in the wake of the Japanese incarceration and the emergence of new Cold War discourses around race, privacy, and democracy, Hisaye Yamamoto’s and John Okada’s works mark a shift from the specific targeting of Japanese Americans as individuals whose citizenship...

... literature, which includes generations of descendant writers, the article proposes a cognitive mapping of the ten major spaces of Japanese American Wartime Relocation Authority (WRA) mass incarceration sites, which were built in spatial overlap or in geographic proximity to Native American historic sites...

... 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...

... experience of incarceration out of chronological order, encouraging new connections across a massive collection of materials: letters, photographs, federal surveillance documents, paintings, sermons, and other ephemera surrounding World War II Japanese American incarceration. Their respective acts...

... Schuyler) invoked the Japanese empire as a potential Ethio- pian ally. How are we to understand a mass black internationalism that galvanized racial solidarity in the theater of the Italo-Ethiopian War through alliance with two colored empire-nations, Ethiopia and quasi- fascist imperial Japan...

... and critical assumptions of the field of Asian American literary and cultural studies. The plight of “comfort women”/military sex slaves/ halmoni —women who were coerced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II—has gained much international attention in the last twenty-five years...

... manga artists that animated Japan’s revival of a burned-out American industry in the 1980s.” While American gaming, in this brief snapshot, emerged from militaristic and IT-industry “hacker[s],” Japanese games came from “delinquent” artists devoted to other crafts. Despite the hybridity of games...

... a different historical period, both focus on relatively underrepresented transnational literary relations. Nan Z. Da treats Sino-US literary exchanges between 1800 and 1910. Vince Schleitwiler focuses on Filipino, Filipino American, African American, and Japanese American cultural works from the Philippine...

... that Japanese farmers and plantation workers in Hawai‘i might turn back into soldiers of some yellow empire in the Asian Pacific, or that the American will to imperial masculinity might waver as it extended its commercial...

... this crucial moment of self-reflection Richard also commits to memory Thomas Nakano, a Japanese American neighbor about to be sent to a US internment camp. American Literature, Volume 85, Number 3, September 2013 DOI 10.1215/00029831-2296677  © 2013 by Duke University Press 564  American Literature...

... as a racialized indigenous population threatened by colonization from the government and by Japanese corporations. This racialized frontier imaginary, in turn, shaped the forms of internet technologies and digital architecture throughout the 1990s, influencing the modern user’s experience of the internet...

... archival compilation and textual analysis evocative of the zeitgeist. It was not only that American products were being made in Asia, like today; rather, Americans were consuming products identified as Japanese. Japan’s recession in the 1990s, however, led to its retreat from the United States...

... island of Amboyna had clashed, fatally. Ten Englishmen had been executed for treason. Harman van Speult, the Dutch governor of the island, charged that despite the formal alliances between their home governments, these men had been conspiring with Japanese mercenaries and the captain of slaves to seize...

... of these themes in relation to a pair of cultural productions, including Paul Beatty’s novel The White Boy Shuffle (1996); the films Rush Hour 2 (2001), Unleashed (2005), the Matrix trilogy (1999–2003); and the Japanese anime series Samurai Champloo (2004). In dialogue with scholars including Vijay...

... outside of the home nation. The most important common ground for the texts in Roh’s book is not the United States but Korea in its diasporic dimensions. This is a comparative study of Korean American fiction and Japanese literary texts that focus on the experiences of Zainichi, people of Korean descent...

... brings together the work of Japanese scholars of Melville whose critical approaches include the psychological, the new historical, the postcolo- nial, and the formal. Essays cover a broad range of Melville’s works—novels, short fiction, and poetry. Several authors also bring the author into conversa...

... and Japanese dōjinshi , and discussing open-source software development. In all these cases, Roh is most interested in the “struggle between subcultural and canonical texts influenced by constructs such as intellectual property and distribution networks rather than an internal linguistic tension” (5...

... the Second Sino-Japanese War to racism Liu personally encountered as a mixed-race child (half-white and half-Chinese) raised in Seattle (Alleyne 2016 ). Asian characters, histories, and themes therefore deserve special attention, particularly Maika’s growth over the series as a proxy for Asian American...