ALSJ The 45th General Meeting Hosei University
Day 1 (October 14, 2006) 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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NOZAKI Naoyuki (Chuo University),
“Reading ‘The Birth-mark’: Aylmer as a Transcendentalist and Aminadab as a ‘Human Machine.’”
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TAKENO Fumiko,
“The Position of Sculpture in The Marble Faun.”
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KOKUBO Junko (Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University),
“Competing Rhetoric: Mesmerism & Alchemy in The House of the Seven Gables.”
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SHOJI Hiroko (Seikei University),
“Colonizing the Body: Mesmerism and Medical Insight in Oliver Wendell Holmes’s Elsie Venner and The Guardian Angel.”
IRIKO Fumiko, Moderator
NISHIMAE Takashi, Moderator
Room # 2
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OKAWA Jun (Kwansei Gakuin University),
“ ‘A sweet morsel’ of Bartleby.”
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SANADA Mitsuru (Ryukoku University),
“On the Correlation between the Theme and the Narrative Form in Melville’s ‘Rip Van Winkle’s Lilac.’”
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TAKAHASHI Ai (Ochanomizu University),
“Who is Tom/mo?: Reconstruction of Gender Identity in Typee.”
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SASAKI Eitetsu (St. Andrew’s University),
“Subject and Reality: Melville’s ‘Benito Cereno.’”
NOGUCHI Kenji, Moderator
HASHIMOTO Yasunaka, Moderator
Room # 3
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TAKEI Tomoko (Koshien University),
“Discourse of Silence and Demarginalization in Henry James’s ‘Crapy Cornelia.’”
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UENISHI Tetsuo (Hokusei Gakuen University),
“Religion and Modern Times in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.”
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YOSHIDA Kaname (Tokyo Metropolitan University),
“Dissecting Poetics in Dickinson.”
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TAKAO Naochika (Chuo University),
“Nature as Battleground: Reading Herman Melville’s Battle-Pieces.”
GOTO Kazuhiko, Moderator
NAKAMURA Koichi, Moderator
Room # 4
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NAKANO Satomi (Meiji University),
“A Story of the ever elusive core of things: John Dos Passos’ Manhattan Transfer.”
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HANADA Ai (Tokyo Metropolitan University),
“Media and Spaces in Dos Passos’ U.S.A.”
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KUBO Kimihito (Osaka University of Foreign Studies),
“Body as ‘Style’: The Representation of Impotence in The Sun Also Rises.”
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TANAKA Saori (Osaka University),
“ ‘Fled is that music’: Listening to ‘music in the mind’ in Tender Is the Night.”
MAEKAWA Reiko, Moderator
IMAMURA Tateo, Moderator
Room # 5
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IDE Tatsuro (Hokkaido University),
“Dynamics of America in ‘Red Leaves.’”
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YOKOMIZO Hitoshi (Chuo University),
“A Relativized Tragedy of Joe Christmas in Light in August.”
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NISHIKAWA Kazuhiro (Waseda University),
“African Americans’ Suicides in Go Down, Moses.”
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SHIGESAKO Kazumi (Hijiyama University),
“Narrative Technique in Go Down, Moses.”
TANAKA Takako, Moderator
HANAOKA Shigeru, Moderator
Room # 6
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OCHI Hiromi (Hitotsubashi University),
“The Southern Moment of Modernism.”
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KIMURA Akio (Kanagawa University),
“Katherine Anne Porter and Nazism: Reading Ships of Fools.”
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TAKEUCHI Mikako (Keio University),
“The Perfection of Nihilism: Richard Wright’s The Outsider.”
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HOSHI Kaori (Tohoku Gakuin University),
“In Search of ‘A Harmonious Whole’: Aspects of Cultural and Sexual Diversity in Alice Walker’s Possessing the Secret of Joy.”
YAMASHITA Noboru, Moderator
MAEKAWA Yuji, Moderator
Room # 7
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NOGUCHI Motoyasu (Tohoku Gakuin University),
“How Can Prose Represent Verse?: Struggles against the Origin of Arts in the Glass Family.”
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KURIHARA Takeshi (Hiroshima University of Economics),
“Queer Worship in Raymond Carver.”
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SUGINO Kentaro (Shinshu University),
“Disillusioned New Frontier: The Meaning and Significance of John Cheever’s The Swimmer.”
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SATAKE Yoshiho (Aoyama Gakuin University),
“Depression in Suburbia: Suburbia in The Hours.”
NOMA Shoji, Moderator
HONJO Seiji, Moderator
Room # 8
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MATSUO Naomi (Fukuoka Women’s University),
“The Weaved War Narrative in Joy Kogawa’s Obasan.”
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ITO Akira (Hokkaido University),
“Archetypical Imagination in Obasan.”
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ABE Akiho (Seikei University),
“African-Americans’ Dilemma: the Reading of Tar Baby and Praisesong for the Widow Based on the French Caribbean Philosophy.”
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ISHIZAKI Kazuki (Tokushima Bunri University),
“Multicultural Ideal in America: E. L. Doctorow and Randolph Bourne.”
HIHARA Mie, Moderator
UDONO Erika, Moderator
Room # 9
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TOYAMA Kenji (University of Tsukuba),
“Sexuality in The Spider’s House: the Actual Situation of Paul Bowles under Modernization.’”
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SHIMOJO Keiko (Fukuoka Women’s University),
“Don DeLillo’s Mao II and Paul Auster’s Leviathan.”
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UCHIDA Yuki (Osaka University of Foreign Studies),
“Dislocation of the Promised ‘America’: ‘Falling’ in Leviathan.”
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OKAMOTO Tasuke (Osaka University of Foreign Studies),
“The Pursuit of America: The Jeffersonian Legacy in Arc d’X as an American Writing.”
MISUGI Keiko, Moderator
SHIBATA Motoyuki, Moderator
Room # 10
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AZUMA Yuichirou (Komazawa University),
“Mary Oliver’s ‘fluid poem.’”
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KOIZUMI Junichi (Nihon Fukushi University),
“The Voice Which 9.11 Allows Naomi Shihab Nye.”
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MORI Mizuki (Osaka University of Foreign Studies),
“Two Temporalities and Accusation from a Closed Space: Arthur Miller’s I Can’t Remember Anything.”
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KURODA Emiko (Chuo University),
“Analysis of Laugh in Arsenic and Old Lace and Harvey.”
KOGA Tetsuo, Moderator
OSADA Mitsunobu, Moderator
Day 2 (October 15, 2006)
Workshop
12:10 a.m.-1:20 p.m.
Room #1
Science Fiction & Fantasy in American Literature Studies
| 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
Water, Rivers, Seas: From the Horizons of Ethnicity
| Moderator | MATSHUMOTO Noboru, Kokushikan University |
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| Panelists |
FUROMOTO Atsuko, Josai International University UDONO Erika, Aichi Prefectural University HAYASHI Chieko, Kyoto Institute of Technology |
Symposia
1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
Room #1
Anti-Intellectualism in American Literature
| Moderator | TATSUMI Takayuki, Keio University |
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| Panelist |
DEGUCHI Natsumi, Osaka City University SHIMURA Masao, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies TAKEMURA Kazuko, Ochanomizu Women’s University Discussant : KAMEI Shunsuke, Gifu Women’s University |
Room #2
Re-Storying America: Dismantled Tradition and Logical Flux
| Moderator and Panelist | YUKI Masami Raker, Kanazawa University |
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| Panelist |
TSUJI Kazuhiko, University of Fukui NAKAYAMA Maiko, Aichi Prefectural University KINA Ikue, University of the Ryukyus |

