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Tag Archives: literature
Book Announcement: Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya kaidan
Ghastly Tales from the Yotsuya kaidan, ed. with an Introduction by Takashi Saitō Perhaps the most famous and oft told tales of horror in Japan, the Yotsuya kaidan tells of a young woman named Iwa and the curse she carried … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750
A KAMIGATA ANTHOLOGY: LITERATURE FROM JAPAN’S METROPOLITAN CENTERS, 1600–1750 Edited by Sumie Jones and Adam L. Kern with Kenji Watanabe This is the first of a three-volume anthology of Edo- and Meiji-era urban literature that includes An Edo Anthology: Literature from … Continue reading
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Tagged Edo, Edo literature, Edo period, Japan, Japanese literature, literature
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Book Announcement: Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades
Locating Heisei in Japanese Fiction and Film: The Historical Imagination of the Lost Decades By Marc Yamada This book provides the first interdisciplinary examination of the popular fiction and film of the “lost decades” of Japan’s Heisei period (1989–2019). Presenting … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, film, Japan, Japanese film, Japanese literature, literature, modern, modern Japan
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Job Opening: Lecturer in Japanese Literature, University of East Anglia
The University of East Anglia is looking to appoint a new Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Japanese Literature, with a specialistion in modern and/or contemporary Japanese literature and the ability to teach and research other aspects of Japanese literature. This is … Continue reading
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Book Announcement: Social Trauma, Narrative Memory and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film
Social Trauma, Narrative Memory, and Recovery in Japanese Literature and Film David C. Stahl This book provides a comprehensive analysis of major works in Japanese literature and film through the interpretive lens of trauma and PTSD studies. Focusing critical attention … Continue reading
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Job Opening: Visiting Assistant Professor in Japanese Studies, UCSB
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor for the 2019-2020 academic year. We seek applicants with expertise in Japanese literature from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, job opening, literature, Meiji Japan, Meiji literature, modern literature
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Book Announcement: The Haiku of Basho
The Haiku of Basho, by John White and Kemmyo Taira Sato The Buddhist Society, London: 2019 See: https://www.thebuddhistsociety.org/page/5-7-5-the-haiku-of-basho-1 Matsuo Basho (1644-1694) is widely acknowledged as the greatest of all the Japanese haiku poets. In the original Japanese, the two defining features of … Continue reading
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Tagged haiku, Japan, Japanese literature, literature, Matsuo Basho, poetry
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Book Announcement: Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics
Producing Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Literature, Film, and Transnational Politics Yuko Shibata National, disciplinary, and linguistic boundaries all play a role in academic study and nowhere is this more apparent than in traditional humanities scholarship surrounding the atomic bombing of Hiroshima … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, film, Hiroshima, international relations, Japan, Japanese history, literature, media, media studies, Nagasaki, postwar, postwar Japan, United States, WWII
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Book Announcement: Unbinding the Pillow Book: The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic
Unbinding The Pillow Book The Many Lives of a Japanese Classic Gergana Ivanova An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has … Continue reading
Resource: The Meiji at 150 Project
Today we introduce a wonderful, multifaceted and multi-year project spearheaded by the University of British Columbia that has been bringing great content to the Japanese Studies community in a number of forms: The Meiji at 150 Project. In honor of … Continue reading
