The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 12 (2001)

English-Language Works by JAAS Members
1999
The following citations and abstracts introduce recent publications and dissertations, 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, books, and dissertations.

ARTICLES IN JOURNALS
Fujita, Hideki. “Rape and the ‘Good-Neighbor Policy’: Sexual Politics inTennessee Williams’s 27 Wagons Full of Cotton.” Journal of the Faculty ofHumanities (Toyama University) 31(1999): 231–37.
In Williams’s 27 Wagons Full of Cotton, two male characters repeatedly mention thepolitical term “good-neighbor policy” in relation to the act of rape in which they participate. The conjunction of rape with such a policy suggests that Williams presents
this one-act play as an illustration of sexual politics.

Masuda, Hikaru. “Discourse/Power/Knowledge in The Conversation: What
Does the Sound Really Want to Say?” Bulletin of Tokyo Junshin Women’sCollege 3 (1999): 47–56.
After reviewing allegorical readings of The Conversation made from the viewpoints ofpolitical conspiracy and totalitarianism of surveillance and another allegorical reading
made in the context of self-reﬂexivity in the motion picture industry, this article uses aconstructionist approach to examine the cultural representations and signifying practices of and in the ﬁlm.

Miyao, Daisuke. “Picturing Japaneseness: Monumental Style, National Identity, Japanese Film,” Journal of Asian Studies 58:2 (May 1999): 515–516.

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A review of Darrell William Davis’ book on the history of Japanese cinema. This
review article attempts to contextualize Davis’ work in the American historiographyof Japanese cinema.

Morimoto, Anri. “Salvation as Fulﬁllment of Being: The Soteriology ofJonathan Edwards and its Implication for Christian Mission,” in The Princeton Seminary Bulletin (Princeton Theological Seminary) 20:1 (1999): 13–23.
The article examines the philosophical theology of Jonathan Edwards, the quintessential Puritan of eighteenth-century America, and ﬁnds it meaningful to the contemporary discussion on ecumenism and interfaith dialogues. It also responds to some of thequestions raised by reviewers of the book the author wrote four years ago.

Nitta, Keiko. “The Psycho-History of the Asian Woman’s Body: Lessons in
Skepticism from Joy Kogawa’s Obasan and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’sDictée.” Studies in English and American Literature (Japan Women’s University) 34 (1999): 101–123.
A theoretical perspective understanding the material-discursive overdetermination ofthe body enables us to examine modes of human agency in handling one’s own bodyin the colonial system. This essay particularly looks at the agency of colonized bodies
described in two Asian women’s autobiographical texts: Joy Kogawa’s Obasan (1981)
and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée (1982).

Okamoto, Masaru. “The Changing Meaning of What Was Considered to Be‘Taboo’ in the History of the Temperance Movement,” The Japanese Journalof American Studies 10 (1999): 55–76.
In the history of temperance advocacy, excessive drinking had always been taboo. But
reformers in the late 19th century came to view saloons as venues for breaking taboos
because they were linked to gambling, prostitution, and political corruption. This article discusses the changing meaning of taboo while focusing on the social backgroundof this transformation.

Sakata, Yasuyo. “U.S. Concept for Neutralization of Uniﬁed Korea in NSC
81/1, July-November 1950,” Journal of Kanda University of InternationalStudies [Kanda Gaigo Daigaku Kiyo] 11 (March 1999): 1–31.
This article discusses the often overlooked neutralization concept in the postwar plans
for a uniﬁed Korea in NSC 81/1, approved by President Truman on Sept. 11, 1950, forUN crossing of the 38th parallel and marching north during the Korean War. The article suggests that the concept had dual purposes. One is neutralization for the longterm purpose of guaranteeing security of postwar Korea. The other is a short-term purpose as a wartime diplomatic tactic to prevent Soviet and Chinese intervention.

Shibayama, Futoshi. “Japan, An Ally of What Kind in the U.S.-JapaneseMilitary Relations?: The Negotiations Surrounding the Administrative Agree-

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ment to Implement the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, 1951–1952,” The Journalof Information and Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University 1 (March, 1999):
1–24.
This article argues that the Administrative Agreement to Implement the U.S.-Japan
Security Treaty in 1952 virtually determined Japan’s status in the hierarchy of American allies: the Defense Department’s view of treating Japan as a ‘lower-class’ ally
than NATO members prevailed over the Far East Command’s reactionary view ofmaintaining as many occupational privileges and rights as possible, as well as theState Department’s view of regarding Japan as a ‘high-class ally’ comparable toBritain, allowing Japan to be equipped with atomic weapons.

Shibayama, Futoshi. “The U.S. Military and Presidential Decision to Rearm
Japan Between September 1951 and August 1952,” The Journal of Information and Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University 2:1 (December 1999):
35–57.
This article describes how the U.S. dictated the process of Japanese rearmament fromconstabulary to a real army between September 1951 and August 1952. Most signiﬁcantly the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff approved the plan of developing the Japanese
armed forces as balanced forces, in spite of a strong emphasis on ground forces in theinitial phase. However, according to their plan, the Japanese forces were in nature supplementary to the U.S. forces in defending Japan, so that the Japanese forces possessed neither offensive capabilities nor independent operational capabilities.

Takezawa, Yasuko. “Racial Boundaries and Stereotypes: An Analysis ofAmerican Advertising,” The Japanese Journal of American Studies 10(1999): 77–106.
This article examines the white-minority relationship portrayed through advertising inapproaching the study of racial stereotypes. It discusses the decoded signiﬁers and thesigniﬁeds contained within the advertisements under examination. It also presents statistical analyses and classiﬁcations concerning minority roles, types of white-minority
relationships, types of products, and facial expressions.

Tanaka, Toshihiro. “The Studies in American Institutional Economics inJapan,” Keizai Gakushi Gakkai Nenpo [Annals of the Society for the Historyof Economic Thought] 37 (1999): 134–140.
This is the ﬁrst short introduction written in English of American Institutional
Economics studies in Japan, 1905–1998. It discusses mainly Old Institutional Economics studies including Veblen, Mitchell, Commons, J.M. Clark and others, and brieﬂy
deals with more recent studies from the 1990’s.

Uchida, Ayako. “The Protestant Mission and the Native American Response:
The Case of the Dakota Mission, 1835–1862,” The Japanese Journal ofAmerican Studies 10 (1999): 153–175.

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Focusing on the nature of the Indian response, this article explores how the work of
the Christian mission shaped the early Dakota-white relations, which ultimately collapsed in the Indian uprising of 1862. Although government and missionary interests
were not always identical, the mission became the locus of cultural and political conﬂicts.

Yorifuji, Michio. “A Study of Nature in Faulkner and Thoreau” Tsuru University Graduate School Review 3 (1999): 1–11
William Faulkner, a Deep Southerner, and Henry David Thoreau, a New Englander,
both loved nature a great deal and deeply thought over man through nature. This article is a comparative study on their views on nature and the relation between natureand man.

Yoshida, Atsushi. “Portraying the American Taboo: The Down and Out inReginald Marsh’s Oeuvre” Japanese Journal of American Studies 10 (1999):
133–152.
This article probes into the texture of the Depression era of the 1930s in which
Reginald Marsh produced most of his Bowery images. The article argues that Marsh’s
acute vision of the down and out developed not in a vacuum, but in close touch withthe social concerns of the thirties.

Zmijewski, David. “The Mystique of Satire: Reading Thorstein Veblen’s The
Theory of the Leisure Class,” Baika Literary Review (English and American
Literature and Language, Baika Women’s College) 33 (1999): 17–33.
Thorstein Veblen remains one of the most perplexing social commentators of the 20thcentury, and The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899) endures as his unique contribution to economic thought in an age of growing excess. Reading Veblen, however, canbe a painful experience for his maze-like prose and convoluted theories masterfully
satirize American society. This article helps unlock the mysteries of Veblen’s satirethat hoodwinked his contemporaries and fooled scholars for decades.

Zmijewski, David. “The Hornet: Mark Twain’s Interpretation of a PerilousJourney,” The Hawaiian Journal of History (Hawaiian Historical Society) 33(1999): 55–67.
In 1866 Mark Twain scooped the newspaper world with his account of the amazing
survival of ﬁfteen men from the U.S.S. Hornet. The worldwide exposure of this publication came to represent an epic event in Twain’s life, but as the author’s reputation
grew so did his memories of this story. This article culls ﬁction from fact and reveals
how Twain’s creative imagination processed information for future use.

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ARTICLES IN BOOKSHones, Sheila. “Natural and Unnatural Wars.” In Geography and Ethics:
Journeys in a Moral Terrain, 163–74, ed. James D. Proctor and David M.
Smith. London: Routledge, 1999.
This is a study of the functioning of shared subjective geographies in the social construction of normative history. Analyzing the use of geographical images in discussions of revolution, secession and the nation in The Atlantic Monthly, 1880–1884, itshows how the text’s assumptions about ‘essential nature’ justify its different assessments of two American wars.

Igarashi, Takeshi. “My Journey to Explore the United States.” In Predecessors: Intellectual Lineages in American Studies, 316–330, ed. Rob Kroes.
Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999.
An essay on the author’s own academic career and works, tracing the initial researchon the American Revolution through the works on the US-Japan peace-making to thecurrent research on the contemporary U.S. politics and diplomacy.

Itoh, Shoko. “A Study of Cape Cod: From Wilderness to Wasteland.” InStudies in Henry David Thoreau, 30–42, ed. The Thoreau Society of Japan.
Kobe: Rokko Publishing Co., 1999.
The seemingly fragmentary structure of Cape Cod might be said to be a strategicallyorganized structure, an achievement of Thoreau’s design expressing his later sophisticated confrontation with nature history and American landscape. Focusing on wreck,
wreckage, and wrecker, this article analyses the spreading shores of Cape Cod with its
inhuman “human house” and many wrecked birds in comparison with Walden’s circular shore and hut as a cosmic and crystal representation of self.

Kohsaka, Noboru. “Religion and Politics in the United States: Religious
Right’s Impact on Congress.” In The Public and the Private in the UnitedStates (JCAS Symposium Series 12, International Area Studies ConferenceV), 115–138, eds. Hitoshi Abe, Hiroko Sato, and Chieko Kitagawa Otsuru.
Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 1999.
Religious conservatives, who have primarily focused on domestic issues, are turning
anew to American foreign policy. In order to illustrate new aspects of the religious
right activities, the article deals with 1) Partial Birth Abortion Act and Religious
Freedom Amendment as domestic issues, and 2) Freedom from Religious Persecution
Act and funding for the International Monetary Fund and the United Nations whichhave been involved in abortion controversies as foreign affairs issues.

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Ogata, Fusako. “The Personal Is Political, After All.” In The Public and thePrivate in the United States, 139–146, eds. Hitoshi Abe, Hiroko Sato andChieko Kitagawa Otsuru. Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 1999.
Comment for the three papers by Sara Evans, Aruga Natsuki and Rui Kohiyama, atthe Session on “Public and Private in Gender Perspective” of the JCAS Symposium
Series 12 “The Public and the Private in the US” held at the National Museum ofEthnology in Osaka, Jan. 1999.

Sasaki, Takashi. “A Journey to the Archetype: Winslow Homer and the Great
Mother.” In Predecessors: Intellectual Lineages in American Studies, 216–35,ed. Rob Kroes. Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999.
In this essay, ﬁrstly, I explain how I reached my current research topic, “Antimodernism and the Archetype”; and secondly, by taking up Winslow Homer (1836–1910), a representative painter of romantic realism, I show an example of my interpretation of antimodernism at the turn of the twentieth century, and the role the archetypeplayed in it.

Takita, Yoshiko. “Arishima Takeo and His American Experience,” In Predecessors: Intellectual Lineages in American Studies, 307–15, ed. Rob Kroes.
Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1999.
In 1903, after graduating from Sapporo Agricultural College, Arishima Takeo went tothe United States. Coming back to Japan, he became one of the leading literary ﬁguresin the Taisho era. The paper focuses on Arishima’s activities in the intellectual andsocial situation of this era and explores an aspect of American inﬂuence on the Japanesewriter.

BOOKS
Kishimoto, Hisao. Early Afro-American Novelists: 1853–1919. Tokyo: Eihosha, 1999.
In this book, early Afro-American novelists from William Wells Brown to Herman
Dreer are treated, introducing their careers and analyzing their novels. Most of thesewriters have been ignored by the mainstream of American literature and even that ofblack literature.

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DISSERTATIONS
Fujioka, Mayumi. “Genre as Process: An Examination of American andJapanese Graduate Students’ Writing of Research Papers in English.” Ph. D.
diss., Indiana University, 1999.
Focusing on the genre of graduate students’ research papers for courses, this dissertation investigates the nature and constituents of genre, students’ construction of genre
knowledge, and roles of culture, peers and professors in students’ construction ofgenre knowledge. Taking a qualitative case study approach, the study examines writing processes of ﬁve American and six Japanese students at an American university.
Longitudinal data include interviews, class observations and writing samples.

Ishii, Izumi. “‘Poisoned by the Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree’: Cherokees
and Alcohol, 1700–1907.” Ph.D. diss., University of Kentucky, 1999.
This dissertation traces the history of alcohol among the Cherokees between the colonial period and Oklahoma statehood in 1907. The focus is on the ways in which theCherokees incorporated alcohol into their society and utilized it both culturally andstrategically. Revealing the complexity of Cherokee drinking, this dissertation presents an alternative framework for the study of Indians and alcohol.

Morita, Mochiyo. “Horace Bushnell on Women in Family, Church, andNation in Nineteenth Century Christian America.” Ph. D. diss., Drew University, 1999.
This dissertation is a study of Horace Bushnell’s views of women in terms of family,
church, and nation in nineteenth century Christian America. Bushnell tried to realize a
Christian America by emphasizing the importance of the natures of men’s “government” of women and women’s “subordination” to men. His views on women were,therefore, patriarchal and hierarchical. In certain circumstances, however, his views on
women were egalitarian and nurturing. His views on women were, consequently, complex.

Nitta, Keiko. “Toward an American Literary History of New National
Narratives: The Signiﬁcance of the Anti-Quest Romance.” Ph. D. diss., The
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999.
This dissertation intends to investigate the complex ﬁeld of national narratives thatchallenges the polarized assumption of the hegemonic minority cultures. The authors I
discuss—Tabitha Tenney, Toni Morrison, Harriet Jacobs, and Theresa Hak Kyung
Cha—all represent the participation of women, as well as ethnic/racial minorities, inthe process of nation-building. Those author’s ambivalent contemplation on American
national identity informs their literary form: the anti-quest romance. This subterraneanlevel of the national narrative demonstrates its multiplicity and multivocality.