Academic Conference: “Texts and Contexts: Historicizing Japanese Literature in the Meiji, Taishô, and Early Shôwa Periods”
October 27th, 2006
403 Kent Hall
9:00AM – 4:50PM
Academic Conference: “Texts and Contexts: Historicizing Japanese Literature in the Meiji, Taishô, and Early Shôwa Periods”
9:00AM – 12:20AM Morning Session
Kôno Kensuke (Nihon University)
* “1930-40 nendai no shuppan bunka to bungaku no keishiki: Sengo bungaku to dôjin zasshi” [English title: Postwar literature and literary coterie magazines]
Yamamoto Yoshiaki (Gakushûin University)
* “Media no naka no ‘shishôsetsu sakka’: Kasai Zenzô no ba’ai” [English title: The media and the I-novelist]
* These two papers will be delivered in Japanese.
“Seeking the Concourse of Voice and Écriture: Rethinking the Genealogy of Modern Japanese Poetry”
Tsuboi Hideto (Nagoya University)
2:00PM – 4:50PM Afternoon Session
Sari Kawana (University of Massachusetts)
“Incompetent Authors and Efficient Editors: Behind the Scenes of Modern Japanese Literature”
Ted Mack (University of Washington)
“Diasporic Imperialism: ‘Colonial Literature’ in São Paulo, 1908-1941”
Jonathan Zwicker (University of Michigan)
“Bakin among the Bostonians: The Japanese Novel in Nineteenth-Century America”
