... the controversy around Yamanaka’s work to “teach the conflicts” of literary studies. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 Blu’s Hanging Lois-Ann Yamanaka Association for Asian American Studies controversy Hawai’i Filipino American Japanese sexual predation close reading Works Cited Chan...

...Ted Hovet Duke University Press 2006 Bernardi, Joanne. 2001 . Writing in Light: The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement . Detroit: Wayne State University Press. Châteauvert, Jean, and André Gaudreault. 2001 . “The Noises of Spectators, or the Spectator as Additive...

... provides an effective introduction to such theo- retical and historical issues as the shifting definitions of race and the history of Japanese American internment in the United States. Finally, the story quite effectively raises but does not seek to resolve ethical questions that lend themselves to further...

... add the date of this attack to our time line, and we noted in the entry that this marked the begin- ning of US involvement in World War II. Later in the semester, however, we read a section from John Okada’s No-­No Boy, a novel depicting the traumas experienced by Japanese Americans interned...

...- tion of women by the Japanese army. This directly compels the students to also consider issues related to femininity, sexuality, and colonialism. In Keller’s narrative, a Korean comfort woman witnesses the brutal execution of another comfort woman by Japanese soldiers, and when tasked to bury...

... in the Context of Japanese Culture and Society .” Journal of Popular Culture 38 , no. 3 : 456 – 75 . Jensen Michael P. 2007 . “ The Comic Book Shakespeare, Part II .” Shakespeare Newsletter 56 , no. 3 : 2 – 8 , 38 – 40 . Johnson Fred . 2014 . “ Perspicuous Objects .” Kairos 19...

... is currently conducting a two-­year research study in Japan directed at examining the ways new media technolo- gies are approached in Japanese higher education and how American univer- sities might benefit from integrating global writing practices in the classroom. Christopher Hanlon is professor...

... developed a course in Japanese cinema that he now offers at WKU. He recently completed a two-year appointment as the faculty associate at WKU’s Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching. Jason Kane is an assistant professor of English at Elgin Community College in Elgin, Illinois. He holds a BA...

... to the fi le, usually showing that they had thought further based on my queries. In some cases, I simply encouraged students to pursue certain lines of inquiry, such as Kim s sense of personal connection with John Okada s The No-No Boy because of her own Japanese American ethnicity, a theme that she seemed...

... as well as Japanese and Indian, and she travels with students to Japan, France, and Italy to learn of art onsite. Kirilka Stavreva is professor of English and creative writing at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa, where she teaches and writes about medieval and early modern literature...

.... Because of these kinds of conti- Agathocleous and Gosselink    Debt in the Teaching of World Literature 465 nuities, brief historical lectures can effectively fill in the details of a cultural framework with which students are already acquainted. American student readers of a Japanese...

... comfortable.” This segregation of interests carried over to their academic work. Alice states that the students felt “uncomfortable when we read and discussed stories with much ethnic/cultural content (such as Chinese-American, Cuban-American, and  Japanese-American stories we’ve read). When I...

... approached the project by bringing medieval Italian through Japanese haiku and into modern English. As Everage explains in his ratio- nale, “The intent of the haiku was to maintain some poetic style while mak- ing the lines more accessible to an uninitiated audience. This allows the piece to retain its...

... article that describes a situation where a plane was going down and a Japanese business- man decided to pull out his moleskin and write a final letter to his family. The urgency of that need to write was powerful, and the exigence might be seen as needing to share his thoughts and express his...

... below . Spoken in the British Isles (Welsh) Uses Hiragana, Katakana, and . A Native American language Kanji writing systems (Japanese) (Navajo) Nearly extinct (Klamath-Monoc) . A member of the Uralic language Called Diné by mother-tongue family (Finnish...

... below . Spoken in the British Isles (Welsh) Uses Hiragana, Katakana, and . A Native American language Kanji writing systems (Japanese) (Navajo) Nearly extinct (Klamath-Monoc) . A member of the Uralic language Called Diné by mother-tongue family (Finnish...

... below . Spoken in the British Isles (Welsh) Uses Hiragana, Katakana, and . A Native American language Kanji writing systems (Japanese) (Navajo) Nearly extinct (Klamath-Monoc) . A member of the Uralic language Called Diné by mother-tongue family (Finnish...

... below . Spoken in the British Isles (Welsh) Uses Hiragana, Katakana, and . A Native American language Kanji writing systems (Japanese) (Navajo) Nearly extinct (Klamath-Monoc) . A member of the Uralic language Called Diné by mother-tongue family (Finnish...

..., a beautiful woman — the beloved — and a jungle bandit (Wisker 2004). Tash Aw matches the duplicitous storytelling that war, imperial powers, collusions, and cover-ups force on people in the parallel tales told of Malaysia just before World War II and the Japanese inva- sion with the failure...

... : Waveland . Duneier Mitchell . 1999 . Sidewalk . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux . Edwards Elise . 2007 . “ An Ethics for Working Up? Japanese Corporate Scandals and Rethinking Lessons about Fieldwork .” Critical Asian Studies 39.4 : 561 – 82 . Emerson Robert M...