... , in the politically contentious years of the early 1960s, at the beginning of the movement of the antinuclear left. © 2014 by Novel, Inc. 2014 Duke University Press The Pedagogy of the Japanese Novel ALAN TANSMAN This essay concerns three of modern Japan’s most famous literary works—a novella...

...Joseph Lavery “ The Mikado' s Queer Realism: Law, Genre, Knowledge” offers a hermeneutic history of the Gilbert and Sullivan light opera, arguing that the now ubiquitous assertion that it is not “about Japan” became critical only in the aftermath of the Russo-Japanese War and reflected a pervasive...

... [Koreans who were turned into Japanese Imperial soldiers]. Tokyo: Shakai Hyôronsha, 1991 . Hirota , Masaki . “Epilogue.” Sabetsu no shoso . Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1990 . 436 –516. Kang , Duk-sang . Chôsenjin gakuto shutsujin: mô hitotsu no wadatsum no koe [Korean volunteer student...

.... Chinese Femininities, Chinese Masculinities: A Reader . Berkeley: U of California P, 2002 . Buruma , Ian . “Becoming Japanese.” The New Yorker 23 –30 December 1996 : 60–71. Chan , Jachinson . Chinese American Masculinities: From Fu Manchu to Bruce Lee . New York: Routledge, 2001...

... of Trauma and Cinema (2004) and China and the New Left Visions (2012). alan tansman is the Louis B. Agassiz Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities at Berkeley, and author of The Culture of Japanese Fascism...

.... In her analysis of George Kennan's journalistic accounts of the Russo-Japanese War (1904- 051, she suggests that the optimism with which some Progressives viewed Japan's rapid and efficient modernization was laced with an anxiety over its rise as a military power. The "yellow peril" sentiments...

..., and Senior Editor of the multi-lingual journal Traces, published in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English. His publications include Voices of the Past: The Status of Language in 18Lh-Century Japanese Discourse (Cornell UP, 1991), Translation and Subjectivity (U of Minnesota P, 1997), Shisan saren...

... . 2 ( 2016 ): 99 – 122 . Steinberg Philip E. “ Of Other Seas: Metaphors and Materialities in Maritime Regions .” Atlantic Studies 10 . 2 ( 2013 ): 156 – 69 . Suzuki Shunryu . Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind . New York : Weatherhill , 1970 . Tobias Lori . “ Japanese...

... ] recognise Dr Ransome unless it is meant to be Cater.” In her history of Allied internment by the Japanese military, Bernice Archer refers to a “Dr Cater” (like Ranson , she gives no first name) who taught a medical class in Lunghua ( 100–101 ). 11 In the end, the Japanese did not enforce...

.... “Chinese Capitalists and the Japanese: Collaboration and Resistance in the Shanghai Area, 1937–45.” Yeh, Wartime Shanghai 62 –85. Conrad , Joseph . Heart of Darkness . 1899. 4th ed. Paul B. Armstrong, ed. New York: Norton, 2006 . Davis , Mike . “The Urbanization of Empire: Megacities...

... of commerce strange and convoluted in ways that cannot be resolved into an ethos of individualism. In stark contrast to Crusoe's deeroticized island, Moll and Roxana inhabit hypereroticized social orders that resonate with the Chinese and Japanese novels. Trade is conflated with sex work...

... would be reductive anyway) and say only that the three narratives, which touch on such obviously global concerns as tourism, immigration, and terrorism (or putative terrorism), are linked by a single commodity. A gun, given by a wealthy Japanese business man to a Moroccan hunting guide, ends up...

..., demonstrating as she does so the true difficulty in representing the traumas of war in a way that is neither aesthetically pleasing nor further traumatizing. Norris also breaks important ground in her comparison of American and Japanese rep- resentations of Hiroshima. She highlights an important...

... this explicit interest in global exchange, hybridity, and connection has a jarring starting point and frame: it begins with a strange and oddly playful depiction of one of the cult members from Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese doomsday cult that attacked the Tokyo subway with sarin gas in 1995. The episode...

... avoiding the dangers of commodification, preserving the complexity of the experience in the language of fragments and indirection. If the Holocaust has consolidated public memory and historical consciousness to same degree, the Japanese internment has made it only to the fnnges of collective...

... UP , 1995 . Nussbaum Martha . Love’s Knowledge . New York : Oxford UP , 1990 . Palumbo-Liu David . The Deliverance of Others . Durham : Duke UP , 2012 . Roquet Paul . “ Ambient Literature and the Aesthetics of Calm: Mood Regulation in Contemporary Japanese Fiction...

..., this time in the 1990s, prompted by the multimillion-dollar purchases of impressionist works by a new generation of globally visible Japanese magnates. As it turns out, the speculative economy of Gilded Age America was already fundamental to the internationalization of impressionism as a movement—Matz could...

...-Japanese war most obviously echo When We Were Orphans (2001). Its blind American dip- lomat Todd Jackson serves as a counterpart to that novel's British, magnifying- glass-wielding, cosmopolitan detective. The international city-in-crisis, which also serves as a temporary refuge for individuals...

..., contents of collective memory. To be specific about World War 11, Torgovnick mentiom well-known events that have never ac- tually registered in Americifs image of itself: "the internment camps for Japanese and Japanese Americans; incendiary bombings of cities in Germany and Japan; the atomic...

... move, James proposes that the modern dress of the Native Americans “quick­ened their resemblance, on the much bigger scale, to Japanese celebrities, or to specimens, on show.” Like exhibits in a World’s Fair, James regards the men as if they were permanently on display—a condition, needless...