Nostalgic Journeys edited by Susan Fisher

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. A CIRCULAR PILGRIMAGE: HOME AND ABROAD IN MODERN JAPANESE LITERATURE

The Nostalgic Journey of Kinya Tsuruta

SUKEHIRO HIRAKAWA

Kensaku's "Return to Japanese Woman" in Part Three of Shiga's An'ya koro

JANET A. WALKER

Kobayashi Hideo's Lost Home

HOSEA HIRATA

Tanizaki's Homeward Journey

MISELI JEON

Mothers, Journeys, Theatre: Fox-Mothers in Kuzunoha and Tanizaki's Yoshino kuzu

CODY POULTON

Kawabata Yasunari's East and West

MARIA JESUS PRADA DE VICENTE

Between Greece and India: Mishima as Cultural Pilgrim

ROY STARRS

Oe Kenzaburo's Hybrid Identities

SUSAN NAPIER

The Vagabond Spirit: Reading Nation and Gender in the Works of Modern Japanese Women Writers

JANICE BROWN

II. BETWEEN JAPAN AND THE WEST

Dejima, Nagasaki, Japan, the World: The Nostalgic Journeys of Sadakichi Hartmann and Tomisaburo Kuraba

KENNETH RICHARD

Okakura Kakuzo's Nostalgic Journey to India and the Invention of Asia

INAGA SHIGEMI

Japan and the West in D.T. Suzuki's Nostalgic Double Journeys

TAKAO HAGIWARA

III. RE_MAKING THE EXOTIC: JAPAN IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE

Waley and the no

JOHN DE GRUCHY

The Mirroe of the East: Angela Carter and Japan

SUSAN FISHER

The Remains of Japan in Kazuo Ishiguro

OSHIMA HITOSHI

Afterword: A Letter from Kinya Tsuruta

Translated by Kenneth Richard

CONTRIBUTORS

Janice Brown

Janice Brown is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada, where she teaches Japanese literature and language. Her publications include Hayashi Fumiko: I Saw a Pale Horse and Selected Poetry from Diary of a Vagabond, as well as a variety of articles, translations, and reviews on the work of Hayashi Fumiko, Oba Minako, and other Japanese women writers. An article on Hayashi Fumiko appears in the collection The Father/Daughter

Plot: Japanese Literary Women and the Law of the Father (U of Hawaii P, 2001). Her current research focuses on modern women poets.

Susan Fisher

Susan Fisher teaches in the English department at the University College of the Fraser Valley. She has published articles on Oba Minako,Murakami Haruki, and Enchi Fumiko; she has also written on contemporary British fiction and Canadian poetry.

John de Gruchy

John de Gruchy teaches English language and literature at a college in the south of Japan. His doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of British Columbia in 1999, is entitled "Orienting Arthur Waley: Japonisme, Orientalism, and the Creation of Japanese Literature in English." He has given numerous presentations on topics related to his research, and is now at work on a book about Arthur Waley.

Takao Hagiwara

Takao Hagiwara is an associate professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where he teaches Japanese literature and language. His works include articles and a book on the tales of Miyazawa Kenji. His most recent book is a book in Japanese on deconstructive metaphysics in modern Japanese literature.

Sukehiro Hirakawa

The former head of Comparative Literature at Tokyo University, Professor Hirakawa now teaches at Fukuoka Jogakuin. He has written and edited numerous works on Japanese literature and culture; he has also translated authors such as Dante and Manzoni into Japanese. Professor Hirakawa is an honorary member of the Modern Language Association.

Hosea Hirata

Hosea Hirata is an associate professor at Tufts University in the Department of German, Russian and Asian Languages and Literatures. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of British Columbia in 1987. His major publications include The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki lunzaburo: Modernism in Translation (Princeton UP, 1993); "Masturbation, the Emperor, and the Language of the Sublime in Oe Kenzaburo" (Positions 2.1). His new book of essays, Seduced Readings: Modern Japanese Literature, Evil, History, Desire, is forthcoming from Harvard University Press.

Inaga Shigemi

An associate professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies in Kyoto, Professor Inaga teaches in the Graduate School for Advanced Studies. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Universite Paris VII on japonisme in nineteenth-century European literature and painting. He is an expert on Orientalism and artistic exchange between Europe and Asia.

Miseli Jeon

A doctoral student in Comparative Literature at the University of British Columbia, Miseli Jeon is the recipient of fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and from the Korea Foundation.

Susan J. Napier

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, Susan Napier is the author of The Fantastic in Modern Japanese Literature: The Subversion of Modernity and Escape from the Wasteland: Romanticism and Realism in the Works of Mishima Yukio and Oe Kenzaburo. She has just finished her third book, Anime from Akira to Princess Mononoke: Understanding Japanese Animation. Napier is the recipient of numerous awards, including a 1999-2000 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Oshima Hitoshi

A professor in the Faculty of Humanities at Fukuoka University, Oshima Hitoshi has taught Japanese literature and intellectual history in Spain, South America, and France.

Cody Poulton

Cody Poulton is an associate professor in the Department of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Victoria. He has written on and translated works by a number of modern Japanese writers, including Izumi Kyoka, Shiga Naoya, Okamoto Kanoko and Kara Juro. He is the author of a book on Kyoka's drama, Spirits of Another Sort. His translations of sagimusume, Kuzunoha, and Osome Hisamatsu are included in a multi-volume anthology , Kabuki Plays on Stage (U of Hawaii P, forthcoming).

Maria Jesus de Prada Vicente

Maria de Prada teaches Spanish language, the theory of intercultural communication, and Japanese literature at several universities in the Fukuoka area. She has submitted her doctoral dissertation to Tokyo University and expects to receive her Ph.D. in early 2002. Her dissertation is on the work of Kawabata Yasunari in its relationship to traditional Japanese poetics, and she has given numerous presentations on topics related to her research.

Kenneth Richard

At present Professor of Comparative Culture and Japanese Pre-Modern Literature at The Siebold University of Nagasaki, Kenneth Richard taught for twenty-seven years in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. He has published translations of modern Japanese poetry, of haikai by Buson, and of a novel and several short stories by Masahiko Shimada; he is also the author of numerous papers on pre-modern Japanese literature.

Roy Starrs

The Chair of Asian Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand, Roy Starrs is the author of books on Mishima Yukio, Shiga Naoya and Kawabata Yasunari. Most recently he has edited Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization (Curzon) and Nations under Siege: Globalization and Nationalism in Asia (Palgrave).

Janet A. Walker

A professor of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University, Janet A. Walker is the author of The Japanese Novel of the Meiji Period and the Ideal of Individualism, and co-editor of The Woman's Hand: Gender and Theory in Japanese Women's Writing.