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From: Elizabeth Oyler <eaoyler at artsci.wustl.edu>
 Crosspost from PMJS - http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~pmjs/

I am pleased to inform you of the upcoming Association of Japanese
Literature Conference to be held at Washington University in St. Louis,
November 10-12, 2000.  I am attaching the conference program.  Those who
require more information are encouraged to visit our webpage:
<http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~ajls/>http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~ajls/>
Or feel free to contact me or my colleagues Marvin Marcus and Rebecca
Copeland.  We are looking forward to the conference and warmly invite you
to attend.

Regards,
Elizabeth Oyler
Co-Chair
Acts of Writing

________________________________________________________________
AJLS

Acts of Writing: Language and Identities in Japanese Literature
Washington University, St. Louis

November 10-12

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

"Acts of Writing," the Ninth Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese
Literary Studies, is sponsored by grants from the Japan Foundation and the
Northeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies and by
financial support from Washington University. The co-chairs and organizers
of the conference are Professors Rebecca Copeland, Marvin Marcus, and
Elizabeth Oyler and the cooperating administrative units are the East
Asian Studies Program and the Department of Asian and Near Eastern
Languages and Literatures.  The conference this year is organized around
topics of "literariness," national/gendered identities, and language and
will feature twenty-four paper presentations along with two keynote
speakers.  Our first keynote speaker will be Dr. Zdenka Svarcova of
Charles University, Czech Republic, and our second speaker will be
Yoshihiro Ohsawa, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Tokyo
University.  For more information regarding registration, accommodations,
and transportation, please consult our webpage:
<http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~ajls/>http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~ajls/> 

Friday, November 10, 2000

2:30-3:30   Registration and Refreshments 

3:45-4:00   Welcoming Remarks: Co-Chairs, Rebecca Copeland, Marvin Marcus,
Elizabeth Oyler

4:00-6:00     Session I
Writing Gender and Establishing Cultural Authority in Periods of Cultural
Flux$BMB(B Panel Organized by Indra Levy

"Writing Like a Man in the Tosa Diary,"
Gus Heldt, Bard College

"The Specter of Hysteria in San'yutei Encho's Shinkei kasanegafuchi,"
Daniel O$BC/(Beill, Yale University

"The Anxiety of Translation: Interlingual Seduction and Betrayal in
Futabatei Shimei's Ukigumo,"
Indra Levy, Rutgers University

"Discourse of Desire and Cultural Topography: The Figure of Woman in
Tanizaki's Reflections on Japanese Language,"
Tomi Suzuki, Columbia University

6:00-7:00     "Semiotic Aspects of the Refined Expression in Classical
Japanese: Language and Literature"
Keynote Presentation by Zdenka Svarcova, Charles University, Czech 
Republic

7:00-9:00  Reception

Saturday, November 12, 2000

8:00-8:30     Coffee/Tea/Pastries/Juices

8:30-10:30    Paper Presentations

                      Session II
  Writing Otherness: Strategies of Literary Appropriation and Nativization

"Archetypes Unbound: Domestication of the Chinese Five Imperial Consorts$BC(B
Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto

"Kambun as Performative Power in Makura no s?shi and Murasaki shikibu 
 nikki"
Naomi Fukumori, The Ohio State University

"In a Borrowed Tongue: The Representation of Japan in the English
Language by Nitobe, Okakura, and Uchimura"
Matthew Mizenko, Ursinus College

"'Dreams Come True': Fukuda Tsuneari and the Shakespearean Sub-Text"
Daniel Gallimore, Linacre College

10:30-10:45   Break

10:45-12:15    Session III
             The Lyrical Word: Language and Identity in Poetry and Poetics

  "The Wakan r?ei sh?: Singing in Harmony or Cannibalization?"
     Sonja Arntzen, University of Toronto

"Gender, Geography, and Writing in Mabuchi's Nativist Poetics: From
Masurao-buri to Taoyame-buri"
Lawrence E. Marceau, University of Delaware

"Anzai Fuyue's Empire of Signs: Japanese Poetry in Manchuria"
     William O. Gardner, Middlebury College

12:15-1:15      LUNCH

1:30-2:30 "Soseki$BCT(B Writing in Kokoro"
Keynote Presentation by Yoshihiro Ohsawa, Tokyo University

2:30-2:45  Break

3:00-4:30 Session IV
  Crosscurrents: Language Styles and Codes in the Nineteenth Century

  "Making the Scene with Shikitei Sanba: Performing Popular Culture"
     Joshua Young, Cornell University

"Rhetoric as Metalanguage and the Metalanguage of Rhetoric: How Language
Defines and Is Defined in the Scholarship of Rhetoric of the Meiji and
Taisho Periods"
Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington University

"Bound by Bunsh?: Language, Politics, and the Nation in Fukuchi $B%d(Bchi's
Editorials on Writing"
Elizabeth Herman, Stanford University

4:30-4:45 Break

 4:45-6:30 Session V
  The Mediated Word: Publishers and Periodicals in Twentieth-Century
                     Literary Production

  "Translation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Writing in(to)
    Japanese"
      Sarah Cox, Brigham Young University

"'Novels You Can Watch/Movies You Can Read': Visual Narrative in 1930s
Women$BCT(B Magazines"
     Sarah Frederick, Boston University

"Publishing Houses and Court Houses: Ishihara Shintar?'s Debut as a
Novelist"
Ann Sherif, Oberlin College

7:00-9:30 Banquet

Sunday, November 13, 2000

8:00-8:30 Coffee/Tea/Juice/Pastries

8:30-10:30 Session VI
  Writing Exercises: New Positions in Postwar and Contemporary Literary
                         Discourse

"Both Ways Now: Dazai Ozamu and Tanizaki Jun'ichir? Writing the Female in
Post War Japan"
Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania

"Wresting National Language from the State: Inoue Hisashi's Attempt to
Overcome the Modern"
Christopher Robins, State University of New York at New Paltz

"The Gender of Solitude: Changing Sexual Identities in Recent Japanese
Fiction"
Giorgio Amitrano, Naples University of Oriental Studies

"Writing the Limits of Sexual Identities: Tomioka Taeko's Straw Dogs$BC(Band
Nakagami Kenji's The Immortal$BC(B
Eiji Sekine, Purdue University

10:30-11:00    Break

11:00-12:30 Session VII
  Writing at the Crossroads: Migrations and Mergings in Modern Japanese
                        Literature

"Colonial Ethnography and the Writing of the Exotic: Nishikawa Mitsuru in
the Tropics"
Faye Yuan Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder

"Ethnic Identities and Various Approaches Towards the Japanese Language:
Analysis of Ri Kaisei, Kin Kakuei, and Tachihara Masaaki"
Yoshiko Matsuura, Purdue University

"Women in Two Cultures: Nomadic Writers of Japan"
Reiko Tachibana, The Pennsylvania State University

12:30  Closing Remarks

Elizabeth A. Oyler
Assistant Professor
Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures
Washington University
St. Louis, MO 63130

Phone: 314-935-4327

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