Cloth: 978-0-472-07795-3 | Paper: 978-0-472-05795-5 | eISBN: 978-0-472-90572-0 (OA)
Library of Congress Classification PL716
Seth Jacobowitz is Assistant Professor in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Texas State University.
Jonathan E. Abel is Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature at Pennsylvania State University.
“This book of impassioned essays by erudite scholars who have dedicated their careers to expanding the parameters of modern Japanese literary studies offers a detailed overview of the field‘s germinal biases and later productive entanglements with other disciplinary fields, including ethnic and feminist studies, environmental and translation studies, media studies, and more. It ultimately convinces one of the importance of non-West and literary humanities in this moment.”
— Christine Marran, University of Minnesota“Across fourteen chapters, Modern Japanese Literary Studies offers a bracing, sober, critical, and ultimately inspiring overview of an area of intellectual inquiry that really can’t be described, anymore, as ‘minor.’ Rooted in the individual perspectives of scholars and teachers whose research spans a variety of issues and themes, the essays are as thought-provoking for specialists as they are accessible to newcomers to the field. It’s a testament to the editors that the collection leaves one wanting even more.”
— Michael Emmerich, UCLA“This riveting volume conducts a chorus of in-situ witness accounts of how modern Japanese literature has evolved as a diverse field—a chorus that reverberates with urgency to fill gaps in scholarship and sustain momentum for innovation, frustration with the status quo, and trepidation about emergent challenges.”
— Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto- List of Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Stating the Field, Seth Jacobowitz and Jonathan E. Abel
Part I: Negotiating Disciplinary Formation
1. Between the Margins and the Mainstream: Modern Japanese Women Writers and Evolving Trends in North American Japanese Literature Scholarship, Rebecca Copeland
2. The Inclusion of Okinawa in Japanese Literary Studies, Davinder Bhowmik
3. Do Black Lives Still Matter to Japanese Literary Studies? William H. Bridges IV
4. Ecocritical Precedent, Present, and Possibility in Japanese Literary Studies, Jonathan L. Pitt
5. Comixing Frameworks: Rethinking the Euro-American Critical Paradigm from the Perspective of Manga Studies, Adam Kern
6. Approaches to Researching and Teaching Manga as Literature, Deborah Shamoon
Part II. The Question of Language
7. World Literature and Japanese-Language Literature, Hideto Tsuboi
8. The History and Present of Japanophone Literature: Migration, Border Crossing, and Materiality, Hibi Yoshitaka
9. Modern Japanese Literature and Sinitic Literary Traditions, Matthew Fraleigh
10. Literature and the Cultural Politics of Immigration: Between Lee Hoesung and Yang Yi in the “Era of the Immigrant,” YoungRan Kō (trans. Seth Jacobowitz)
11. Translation and the Crisis of Relevancy in Japanese Studies, Jeffrey Angles
Part III: Institutional Responses to the Field
12. The Many What-ifs of Literary Urbanism: A European Perspective, Gala Maria Follaco
13. The Problem of Scale in Japanese Literary Studies, John Whittier Treat
14. Signposts for the Non-Specialist: Thoughts on a Renewed View of the State of Modern Japanese Literary Studies, Christopher Lupke
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