PMAJLS
Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies

VOL. 5, SUMMER 1999

Eiji Sekine, Editor

Jim Drummond, Production Editor


LOVE AND SEXUALITY
IN JAPANESE LITERATURE

 

CONTENTS


FORWARD

Eiji Sekine..........v

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS I

Reconsidering Tanizaki Jun'ichiro's "Love and Eroticism": Iro Tradition and Modern Ren'ai in
Japanese Literary History

Saeki Junko..........2

 

KEYNOTE ADDRESS II

Confession and Exposure: Nagasawa Mitsuo's Adult Video Actresses and Japan's Male Intellectual Consciousness

Inaga Shigemi..........19

 

LOVE AND SEXUALITY IN HEIAN COURT LITERATURE

Love and Sexuality in Heian Text: "Productive" and "Non-productive" Sex

Kimura Saeko..........47

Manufacturing Desire: Love in the "Tamakazura" Chapters

Lili Selden..........57

The Lover's Subject: Its Construction and Relativisation in the Waka Poetry of the Heian Period

Rein Raud..........65

 

TEXTUALIZATION OF LOVE AND SEXUALITY IN MEIJI LITERATURE

Ren'ai: The Politics of Eros in the Writing of Kitamura Tokoku

Michael Brownstein..........80

Sex and the Lady Translator in Meiji Japan or Translation as a Transsexual Act

Rebecca Copeland..........88

Love as Literary Construct : Erotic Tropes in the Poetry of Akiko, Tekkan, and Tomiko

Leith Morton..........101

 

EROS IN TANIZAKI'S WRITING

Triangulating the Voyeur or Desire and the Look

Jean Yamasaki Toyama..........113

The Years of Living Dangerously: Life and Love in Tanizaki's Fiction of 1928ö30

Phyllis Lyons..........123

 

SNOW COUNTRY AND CAPITALISM

The Fusing of Labor and Love in Snow Country

Miho Matsugu..........135

Laborers of Love in Snow Country:  The Fantasy of Capitalism

Heather Bowen-Struyk..........144

 

GENDER, VIOLENCE, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY

Imperial Textuality, Imperial Sexuality

Mark Driscoll..........156

A Dark Princess from Thailand in Yukio Mishima's The Temple of Dawn: The White Male Japanese Body and its Abject Other

Ryoko Otomo...........175

The Ideology of Rebellion and "Anti-Social Sex" in Oe and Oshima

Craig Lushsinger..........188

 

CONTEMPORARY MALE SEXUALITY AND (META-) (HYPER-) REALITY

The Body of Postwar Literature: Tamuta Taijiro's Nikutai bungaku

Doug Slaymaker..........197

Penisism and the Eternal Hole: Takahashi Mutsuo's Homeuta

Jeffrey Angles..........207

Love and Eros in the Christianity of Shusaku Endo

Takao Hagiwara..........221

 

MYTH OF THE MOTHER AND MODERN WOMEN WRITERS

A Mother's Love: Kishimo and the Re-Writing of Myth

Charlotte Eubanks..........229

Man-Eaters: Women Writers and the Appropriation of the Yamauba Motif

Yumiko Hulvey..........240

The Mother, the Daughter, and the Sexed Body, in Enchi Fumiko's "Fuyu Momiji"

Barbara Hartley..........250

 

RECONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF FEMININITY IN MODERN TEXTS

A Golden Needle, A Rabbit's Tail, and The Density of Female Body Fat: An Analysis of Muro Saisei's Metaphors for Enchi Fumiko's Writing Libido

Catherine Ryu..........264

A Game of Sexuality: Kinugasa Teinosuke's Film, Gate of Hell (1953)

Tamae Prindle..........274

Tracing the Body of the Question Mark: Kanai Mieko's Ai Aru Kagiri

Mary Knighton..........286

"Curling Up Tight": Tsushima Yuko Finds the Shojo

Eve Zimmerman..........300

 

LESBIANISM, POPULAR CULTURE AND WOMEN READERS

Sisters and Lovers: Women Magazine Readers and Sexuality in Yoshiya Nobuko's Romance Fiction

Sarah Frederick..........311

Broken pasts, Uncomfortable Presents: Tales of Yu Miri and "Comfort Women"

Melissa Wender..........321

Female Gender and Father's Abuse: On the Construction of Femininity
in Contemporary Japanese Women's Writings

Yokota-Murakami Takayuki..........332

What's Happening to Sexuality: Corporeal Sensations in Matsuura Rieko's
Oyayubi P no shugyojidai

Nakagawa Shigemi..........339

 


2/20/2000