Vol. 53 No. 2 (2019): Japanese Language and Literature

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LITERATURE ARTICLES

• The Secret Mourning of an Evening Death: Genji’s Ritual, Practice, and Lament on Behalf of Yūgao

  Beth M. Carter

  155-174

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SPECIAL SECTION LITERATURE

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  Hiroshi Nara

  175-176

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• Bodies in Pain, Pleasure, and Flux: Transgressive Femininity in Japanese Media and Literature

  Marianne Tarcov, Fareed Ben-Youssef

  177-181

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• Fragrant Spaces between Words: Prolonging Shōjo Liminality into Adulthood in the Poetry of Yonezawa Nobuko

  Marianne Tarcov

  183-201

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• The Birth and Death of a Professional Wrestling Alter-Ego: Takahara Hidekazu’s Gamushara and the Loss of a Transgressive Identity

  Fareed Ben-Youssef

  203-231

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• The Transgressive Figure of the Dancing-Girl-in-Pain and Kanai Mieko’s Corporeal Text

  Hannah Osborne

  233-252

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• Narrating the Diasporic Self as Shaman: A Quest for Self-Healing and Social Transformation in Lee Yang-ji’s Nabi T’aryǒng

  Soo Mi Lee

  253-282

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REVIEWS

• Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea

  Andrew Harding

  283-288

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• Beneath the Sleepless Tossing of the Planets: Selected Poems of Makoto Ōoka

  Jon Holt

  288-293

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• Kakawaru kotoba: Sankashi taiwa-suru kyōiku・kenkyū e no izanai (Engaging Language: An Invitation to Dialogic Education and Research)

  Yoshiki Chikuma

  293-296

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• A Shameful Life (Ningen shikkaku)

  Ji Shouse

  296-302

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CONTRIBUTORS

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  Hiroshi Nara

  303-305

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BACK MATTER

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