The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 24 (2013)

English-Language Works by JAAS Members
2011
The following citations and abstracts introduce recent publications anddissertations, written in English by the members of the Japanese Association for
American Studies, on topics related to American Studies. The works are listed in
the order of articles in journals, articles in books, and dissertations.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
Araki, Wakako. “Historical Agency and the Black Self-Emancipation Thesis: A
Historiographical Approach to the Arguments of 'Who Freed Slaves.'” Journalof International Studies and Regional Development (Association of InternationalStudies and Regional Development, University of Niigata Prefecture) 2 (2011):
33–42.
This article examines the “who freed slaves” debate within historiography from theblack self-emancipationist viewpoint, and shows the historical agency of black people
in their emancipation during the American Civil War and in the Reconstruction period.

Kiuchi, Toru. “Where Did He Go See a Woman?: Sixo’s Sites of Memory inMorrison’s Beloved.” Expressions: International Cultural Expression Studies 7(March 2011): 253–60.
This article focuses on Sixo’s sites of memory in Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved. It
takes a close look at the meeting places where Sixo went to see a woman about fifteen
miles from the plantation Sweet Home near Covington, Kentucky.

Kiuchi, Toru. “Creating African American Haiku Form: Lenard D. Moore’s PoeticArtistry.” Journal of Ethnic American Literature 1.1 (Fall 2011): 153–65.
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haiku poet. He may drop in at a deserted farm near his home in North Carolina and finda rosebud unraveling, not just opening, in the day’s first misty streak of daylight. Thisis “true to nature,” exactly as he experiences it. However, Moore’s haiku is not only
directly about nature but also is embedded in the history of African Americans in theSouth.

Shibahara, Taeko. “‘The Private League of Nations’: The Pan-Pacific Women’s
Conference and Japanese Feminists in 1928.” US-Japan Women’s Journal 41(December 2011): 3–24.
Histories of international feminist activism and Japanese middle-class feminists inthe early twentieth century have shown the interplay of imperialism and the feminist
movement. This article focuses on the development of feminist activism among
Japanese delegates to the 1928 Pan-Pacific Women's Conference and argues thatinternational forums such as this conference were an essential component in theformation of Japanese feminism.

Uno, Hiroko. “Emily Dickinson’s Seclusion and Japan.” Kobe College Studies(Kobe College Research Institute, Kobe College) 58.2 (December 2011): 129–50.
By referring to newspaper coverage of Japan, books of the time, and Emily Dickinson’sfather’s politics, this article shows that American diplomatic policy of trying to pry
open secluded Japan was a familiar topic in the Dickinson household in the 1850s andthat it influenced Emily’s withdrawal from American society.

Yui, Daizaburo. “Interpretations of the 1960s in Japan and the US: Historical
Assessment and Voices from the Sixties Generation.” Essays and Studies (TokyoWoman’s Christian University) 62.2 (September 2011): 189–202.
Comparative historiographical studies of 1960s social movements in the United Statesand Japan, particularly New Left movements, show interesting commonalities anddifferences between the two countries.

ARTICLES IN BOOKS
Kitahara, Taeko. “F. Marion Crawford’s Supernatural World: The Art of Narration.”
A Hundred Years After: New Light on Francis Marion Crawford. Ed. Gordon M.
Poole. Sorrento, It.: Franco Di Mauro Editore, 2011. 73–83.
This essay explores the appeal of F. Marion Crawford’s narrative power through a close
textual reading of his supernatural tales. The first part examines the narrative patterns inthese stories. The second part offers a specific case study of two stories that employ asimilar narrative method: “Man Overboard!” and “The Screaming Skull.”English-Language Works in 2011

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Kiuchi, Toru. “Zen Buddhism in Richard Wright’s Haiku.” The Other Worldof Richard Wright: Perspectives on His Haiku. Ed. Jianqing Zheng. Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi, 2011. 72–85.
This article focuses on how Zen philosophy entered Wright’s haiku through hissimple life style until his death in 1960. It concludes that his love of nature since hisMississippi days, his unchanging quiet and simple lifestyle, and his preference for farm
life over urban life were deeply ingrained in him long before he encountered Zen.

Kodama, Sanehide. “Japanese Influence on Richard Wright in His Last Years:
English Haiku as a New Genre.” The Other World of Richard Wright: Perspectives
on His Haiku. Ed. Jianqing Zheng. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
122–33.
After tracing religious and formal influence of R. H. Blyth’s interpretation ofclassical Japanese haiku on Richard Wright, the author points out that many haiku by
Wright reflect his complex personal feeling toward the end of his life: loneliness andlonelilessness, selffullness and selflessness, dejection and hope for spiritual serenity.

Morimoto, Anri. “An Edwardsian Lost and Found: The Legacy of Jonathan
Edwards in Asia.” After Jonathan Edwards: The Course of New England Theology.
Ed. Oliver D. Crisp and Douglas A. Sweeney. New York: Oxford University Press,2012. 225–36.
This is a bibliographical essay on the reception of Jonathan Edwards in Asia. It traces
the publication history of a mysterious translation in Japanese. The rare book waspublished in 1948 by an unknown scholar and found an unlikely place of preservationin the home of a Japanese American immigrant in Princeton, New Jersey.

DISSERTATIONS
Tsukuda, Yoko. “The Making of ‘Immigrants’ in the United States: Case Studies inContemporary Japanese/Japanese American Communities.” PhD diss., Universityof Tokyo, 2011.
This dissertation examines how the “immigrant” category as a part of the socialsystem is produced, maintained, and reproduced by US society through case studies
of Japanese/Japanese American communities in San Francisco, Los Angeles, andSoutheast Texas. The Japanese American community has played an important rolein preserving certain images and narratives of Japanese immigrants that support thediscourse of “immigrant America.”