ALSJ The 47th General Meeting Seinan Gakuin University
Day 1 (October 11, 2008) Session Program
Session 1 starts at 2:00 pm; Session 2 at 2:55 pm; Session 3 at 3:50 pm; and Session 4 at 4:45 pm. Each session includes a paper presentation (30 minutes), plus questions and answers afterward.
Room # 1
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YAMAGUCHI Yoshinari (Kochi Women's University),
“Natural History Turned National History: An Approach to Jeremy Belknap, The Foresters”
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TAKIGUCHI Mika (Rissho University) (Graduate),
“The Encounter for Gaining Wisdom: Washington Irving and Walter Scott”
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HORI Tomohiro (Tokyo Metropolitan University) (Part-time Lecturer),
“Spectacle and Peeping in Slave Narratives”
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WAKABAYASHI Makiko (Aoyama Gakuin University),
“Seduction Motifs in Minister's Wooing:Harriet Beecher Stowe's Critical View of Sentimental Novel”
ONISHI Naoki, Moderator
HAYASHI Ichiro, Moderator
TAKEDA Takako, Moderator
Room # 2
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INAGAKI Shinichi (Jissen Women’s University),
“Marriage System and Property in The House of the Seven Gables : Free Love in the Communitarian Network”
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KOKUBO Junko (Aichi Shukutoku University),
“Rewriting Authority: A Wonder Book for Girls and Boys as an Educational Medium”
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SUGIMOTO Hiroyo (University of Tsukuba) (Graduate),
“Sole Inhabitants of the Sole House: Herman Melville’s ‘The Piazza’ and American Family Home”
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OSHIMA Yukiko (Fukuoka University),
“Melville in His Last Years: Billy Budd and Poems”
YOKOTA Kazunori, Moderator
HOSHINO Katsutoshi, Moderator
Room # 3
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SAITO Sonoko (Suzuka National College of Technology),
“Reading and Writing in In the Cage : The Question of Identity in the Work of Henry James”
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NAKADA Takashi (Wako University),
“How Old Sheet Music Portrayed America: Journalism of Printed Popular Music in the 19th and Early 20th Century”
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WATANABE Mayumi (Fukushima College) (Part-time Lecturer),
“The Form of Subversion in Sister Carrie”
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SATOUCHI Katsumi (Osaka University),
“Under the Old Regime: The Role of Chapter 18 in Charles W. Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars”
FUKUDA Takako, Moderator
UZAWA Yoshiko, Moderator
Room # 4
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TAKAHASHI Michiko (Fukuoka University),
“From a Swimmer to Diver: Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘The Swimmers’ as a Prologue to Tender Is the Night”
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MAEDA Kazuhira (Naruto University of Education),
“Nick Adams as Writer, Nick Adams as Character, and ‘he’”
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YAMAMOTO Yuko (Doshisha University) (Part-time Lecturer),
“William Faulkner and the Modern Funeral Industry”
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NAGAO Satoru (Kumamoto University),
“‘Law’ and Community in Sanctuary”
FUJITANI Seiwa, Moderator
MORI Arinori, Moderator
Room # 5
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TSUJI Hideo (Kanto Gakuin University) (Part-time Lecturer),
“The Sun ‘Also’ Rises in Harlem: Black Hardboiled Style in Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring”
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David A. FARNELL (Kyushu University),
“Utopias False and True in Baldwin’s ‘Sonny’s Blues’”
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MISOE Atsuro (University of Tsukuba) (Graduate),
“Cold War at Tiffany’s: Geopolitics of an Air Travel in Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
- (no session)
YOSHIOKA Shizuyo, Moderator
TAKEMOTO Noriaki, Moderator
Room # 6
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OCHI Hiromi (Hitotsubashi University),
“The Southern Moment of Modernism.”
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YAMANO Shigeru (Osaka University) (Graduate),
“From Beloved to Arc d’X : Politics of Ghosts in Historical Narratives”
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UEDA Mayuko (Tokyo Metropolitan University) (Part-Time Lecturer),
“Bloody Hand: The Representations of a Writing Woman in Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions”
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SHIMOJO, Keiko (University of Miyazaki),
“An American Way of Being, or ‘a human becoming’: Renewable Frontier and Renewable Identity in Auster’s Moon Palace”
HASHIMOTO Kenji, Moderator
KOSHIKAWA Yoshiaki, Moderator
NITTA Reiko, Moderator
Room # 7
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MAKINO Rie (Nihon University),
“Floating Subject: Transnationalism in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest”
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HATOOKA Keita (Meiji University),
“American Luddites and the American West: Looking Backward from Against the Day”
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MIZUNO Atsuko (Sanyo Women’s College),
“Four Seasons and Chaos: Rudolfo Anaya’s Jemez Spring”
- (no session)
TAKADA Shuhei, Moderator
OMORI Yoshihiko, Moderator
Room # 8
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ARAKI Yoko (Niihama Junior College of Technology),
“Imagining / Inventing Homeland: H. W. Longfellow’s Evangeline and the Late-Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Nationalist Poets”
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YAMANAKA Akiko (Dokkyo University) (Part-time Lecturer),
“Henry’s Minstrel Mask”
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KOBAYASHI Aimei (Aoyama Gakuin University) (Part-time Lecturer),
“The Sinking Whale: Robert Lowell’s Poetical Development”
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HARA Shigeyoshi (Dokkyo University),
“Gary Snyder and Ryosen-an: A Meeting with Ruth Fuller Sasaki”
KOGA Tetsuo, Moderator
FUJIMOTO Masaki, Moderator
Room # 9
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MATSUDA Chihoko (Hitotsubashi University) (Graduate),
“Derek Walcott’s New Caribbean Woman”
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Raphaël LAMBÉRT (University of Tsukuba),
“Men of the Middle Passage and Middle Passage Men: Transatlantic Slave Trade and Poetic Imagination”
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HIBINO Kei (Seikei University),
“Faith and Salvation in Angels in America : Reading along with T.S. Eliot's and Emmanuel Levinas’s Works”
- (no session)
FUROMOTO Atsuko, Moderator
YAMAMOTO Hideyuki, Moderator
Room # 10
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OKINO Marika (Kobe University) (Graduate),
“Race, Gender, Sexuality and Violence in Diana Son’s Stop Kiss”
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MORI Haruna (Osaka University) (Graduate),
“Death and Regeneration in the Theater: Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams by Terrence McNally”
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MORIMOTO Michitaka (Osaka University) (Graduate),
“Ringing an Alarm Bell: American Crisis in Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell”
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MORI Mizuki (Osaka University) (Graduate),
“The Predictable Appearance of the Ghost: The Whereabouts of the American Economic System Represented in Simpatico”
HARA Eriko, Moderator
UCHINO Tadashi, Moderator
Day 2 (October 12, 2008)
Workshop
12:10 a.m.-1:20 p.m.
Room #1
Hemingway and Popular/Visual Culture
(The Hemingway Society of Japan)
| Moderator and Panelist | Tadashi NAGASAWA, Sugiyama Jogakuen University |
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| Panelists |
Yoko ARIMA, Yamawaki Gakuen Junior College Shuhei TAKADA, Kyushu Tokai University Mariko WATANABE, Fukuoka University |
Room #2
The Representations of Birds: Beyond Ethnicity
| Moderator | MATSUMOTO Noboru, Kokushikan University |
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| Panelists |
YAMAMOTO Shin, Yokkaichi University UDONO Erika, Aichi Prefecture University YOKOTA Yuri, Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University SHIMIZU Nao, Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University |
Symposia
1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Room #1
Planetarity in American Literature
| Moderator and Panelist | YAMAZATO Katsunori, University of the Ryukyus |
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| Panelist |
Mariko Watanabe, Nishikyushu University Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio University Yoji Sakate, Playwright |
Room #2
How Was It Black?: Modernism Reconsidered
| Moderator | GOTO Kazuhiko, Rikkyo Univeristy |
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| Panelist |
SATO Hiroko, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Professor Emeritus NAGAHATA Akitoshi, Nagoya University UENO Naoko, Dokkyo Univeristy NITTA Keiko, Rikkyo University |

