Distributed for Jōsai International Center for the Promotion of Art and Science, Jōsai University
READING SŌSEKI NOW
Editors’ Introduction: Sōseki Great and Small
Reiko Abe Auestad, Alan Tansman, J. Keith Vincent
What Sort of a Stone Was Sōseki? How to Become Who You Are Not
Tawada Yōko, J. Keith Vincent
Kokoro and the Economic Imagination
Brian Hurley
The Affect that Disorients Kokoro
Reiko Abe Auestad
Kokoro in the High School Textbook
Ken K. Ito
Doubled Visions of Desire: Fujimura Misao, Kusamakura, and Homosocial Nostalgia
Robert Tuck
Penning the Mad Man in the Attic: Queerness, Women Writers, and Race in Sōseki’s Sanshirō
Sayumi Takahashi Harb
Beach Boys in Manchuria: An Examination of Sōseki’s Here and There in Manchuria and Korea, 1909
Angela Yiu
The Relations Between Things and Three Types of People: A lecture sponsored by the Manshū Nichinichi Shimbun, September 12, 1909, in Dalian (translated by Angela Yiu)
Natsume Sōseki
“Why Was He…Well, Killed?” Natsume Sōseki, Empire, and the Open Secrets of Anticolonial Violence
Andre Haag
Impressions of Korea and Manchuria (1909) (translated by Andre Haag)
Natsume Sōseki
Judging a Book by Its Cover: Natsume Sōseki, Book Design, and the Value of Art
Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe
Death and Poetry: From Shiki to Sōseki (1992) (translated by Robert Tuck)
Karatani Kōjin
From Postcolonial (2001) (translated by Andre Haag and Robert Tierney)
Komori Yōichi
Camellias and Vampires: Reading the Spermatic Economy in Natsume Sōseki’s And Then (2008) (translated by Kristin Sivak)
Miyazaki Kasumi
ART IN FOCUS: Matsuzawa Yutaka’s The Whole Works, 1961-1971
Introduction
Reiko Tomii
The Whole Works, 1961–71 (translated by Reiko Tomii)
Matsuzawa Tutaka
DESIGN IN FOCUS
Design in Japan: Contemporary Perspectives on Design Practice
Ignacio Adriasola
Interview with Sugiura Kōhei (2013) (translated by Mycah Braxton)
The Essence of Social Design (2013) (translated by Elsa Chanez)
Kakei Yūsuke
FICTION
Butterfly (1889) (translated by Nicholas Albertson)
Yamada Bimyō
About the Journal
The Review of Japanese Culture and Society is an annual English-language journal dedicated to the critical analysis of Japanese culture using thematic and interdisciplinary approaches to provide a broad perspective by combining the work of Japanese scholars and critics with that of non-Japanese writers. Dedicated to the translation of works written originally in Japanese, each issue also includes an original translation of a Japanese short story.
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Volume 29 (2017)