{"title":"Doubled Visions of Desire: Fujimura Misao, Kusamakura, and Homosocial Nostalgia","authors":"R. Tuck","doi":"10.1353/ROJ.2017.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ROJ.2017.0005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357136,"journal":{"name":"Review of Japanese Culture and Society","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134447361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Postcolonial (2001)","authors":"Komori Yōichi, Andre Haag, R. Tierney","doi":"10.1353/ROJ.2017.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ROJ.2017.0013","url":null,"abstract":"For more than thirty years, University of Tokyo narratologist Komori Yōichi (b. 1953) has pioneered new ways of reading Natsume Sōseki’s work in relationship to questions of empire. Komori’s 2001 primer Postcolonial (Posutokoroniaru), first published as part of Iwanami’s “Frontiers in Thought” series, draws on currents in postcolonial criticism to trace the “doubled structure” of Japanese colonialism that took shape through the nation’s preemptive “self-colonization” and “mimicry” of imperialist Western powers during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The excerpt translated here is the book’s second section, which is devoted entirely to Sōseki. Komori explores how, during his stay in London from 1900-2, the future novelist Natsume Kinnosuke came to acquire a critical understanding of the contradictions of nationalism, social class, and cultural identity in a non-Western colonizing power that itself occupied a semi-colonial status vis-à-vis the political and cultural hegemony of the West. In the remainder of the excerpt, he shows how the novelist Sōseki dramatized these insights in his I Am a Cat (Wagahai wa neko de aru, 1905-6), Botchan (1906), The Gate (Mon, 1910) and To The Spring Equinox and Beyond (Higan sugi made, 1911).","PeriodicalId":357136,"journal":{"name":"Review of Japanese Culture and Society","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131795713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Sort of a Stone Was Sōseki? How to Become Who You Are Not","authors":"Tawada Yōko, J. K. Vincent","doi":"10.1353/ROJ.2017.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ROJ.2017.0001","url":null,"abstract":"We agreed that I would speak in Japanese today. So I am relieved not to have to pronounce difficult English words, cramming my tongue against my palate in uncomfortable ways, while ruddering both sides of my tongue to the left and the right. Of course it is not easy to give a lecture in Japanese either. Since a lecture is spoken rather than written, one has to use the polite “desu-masu” style, and this slows everything down.1 Your thoughts want to race ahead, but these sociable words keep bowing and apologizing to the audience, so that your thoughts can’t quite get out of the gate. Natsume Sōseki and his generation of writers worked hard to unite the spoken and written languages (genbun’itchi), but today’s written Japanese has once again drifted away from spoken language, opening a gap between them. Of course, this situation makes us writers happy. Depending on how we skirt this gap, new styles of writing emerge.","PeriodicalId":357136,"journal":{"name":"Review of Japanese Culture and Society","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128697187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Death and Poetry: From Shiki to Sōseki (1992)","authors":"Karatani Kōjin, R. Tuck","doi":"10.1353/ROJ.2017.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ROJ.2017.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357136,"journal":{"name":"Review of Japanese Culture and Society","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130188111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Penning the Mad Man in the Attic: Queerness, Women Writers, and Race in Sōseki's Sanshirō","authors":"Sayumi Takahashi Harb","doi":"10.1353/ROJ.2017.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ROJ.2017.0006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357136,"journal":{"name":"Review of Japanese Culture and Society","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129278002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Relations Between Things and Three Types of People A lecture sponsored by the Manshū Nichinichi Shimbun, September 12, 1909, in Dalian","authors":"Natsume Sōseki, Angela Yiu","doi":"10.1353/ROJ.2017.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ROJ.2017.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Sōseki traveled to Manchuria and Korea during September and October of 1909. He delivered three lectures while in Dalian, and the one translated here was thought to be lost until it was discovered in a microfilm of the Manshū Nichinichi Shimbun (Manshū Daily News) in 2008. The lecture was originally printed in the newspaper in five installments, from September 15 to 19, 1909 and was most likely based on a reporter’s transcript.","PeriodicalId":357136,"journal":{"name":"Review of Japanese Culture and Society","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121868921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Essence of Social Design (2013)","authors":"Kakei Yusuke, Elsa Chanez","doi":"10.1353/roj.2017.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/roj.2017.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357136,"journal":{"name":"Review of Japanese Culture and Society","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122623843","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kokoro in the High School Textbook","authors":"K. K. Ito","doi":"10.1353/ROJ.2017.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ROJ.2017.0004","url":null,"abstract":"The best-known version of Natsume Sōseki’s novel Kokoro (1914) is nine chapters long. I make this statement on the basis that students in Japanese high schools most often read Chapters 40 through 48 of the last part of the novel. Since other readers who read the novel in its entirety also read these chapters, we can say that the cultural knowledge about Kokoro, held by the greatest number of readers, converges upon this nine-chapter span. If canonicity involves the inclusion of a text in the “institutional forms of syllabus and curriculum,” as the literary scholar John Guillory argues in his influential study of canon formation,1 then there is no doubt that Kokoro occupies a central place in the canon. Along with a handful of other works,2 it has achieved the status of a “standard work” (teiban) in high school kokugo (national language) textbooks. A teacher’s manual explains Kokoro’s inclusion as follows:","PeriodicalId":357136,"journal":{"name":"Review of Japanese Culture and Society","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129912413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Kokoro and the Economic Imagination","authors":"Brian Hurley","doi":"10.1353/ROJ.2017.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ROJ.2017.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357136,"journal":{"name":"Review of Japanese Culture and Society","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126861980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Why Was He…Well, Killed?\" Natsume Sōseki, Empire, and the Open Secrets of Anticolonial Violence","authors":"Andre Haag","doi":"10.1353/ROJ.2017.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/ROJ.2017.0009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":357136,"journal":{"name":"Review of Japanese Culture and Society","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128493463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}