Vol. 55 No. 1 (2021): Japanese Language and Literature

• Front matter and TOC

  Hiroshi Nara

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ARTICLES

• Beyond “Transborder”: Tawada Yōko’s Vision of Another World Literature

  Victoria Young

  1-33

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• Tanabe Seiko, Feminism, and the Making of a Love Novel

  Luciana Sanga

  35-63

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• A Benkei for Every Age: Musashibō Benkei as Palimpsest

  Christopher Smith

  65-103

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• Owning It: Kuroi Senji's "Time" and the Struggle for Agency in Contemporary Japan

  Peter Tillack

  105-130

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• The Story/History of Japan: Producing Knowledge by Integrating the Study of Japanese Literature and Japanese History

  Peter James Kvidera

  131-159

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SPECIAL SECTION LITERATURE

• Special Section cover page

  Gergana E. Ivanova

  161

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• Reading the Literary Canon through Manga in the Twenty-First Century

  Gergana E. Ivanova

  163-179

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• From The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter to Princess Kaguya: Metamorphoses of the Tale in Manga and Beyond

  Mika Saito

  181-213

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• The Ise-e Tradition and Ise Manga

  Joshua S. Mostow

  215-242

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• Beyond “In Spring, the Dawn”: Redeeming The Pillow Book through Manga

  Gergana E. Ivanova

  243-273

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• Shōjo Murasaki, Seinen Genji: Sexual Violence and Textual Violence in Yamato Waki’s Fleeting Dreams and Egawa Tatsuya’s Tale of Genji Manga

  Otilia Milutin

  275-305

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• Izumi Shikibu nikki in Manga: Recreating Classical Poetry, Letters, and Shared Sensibilities

  Kayono Shiba

  307-330

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• From a Romantic Shōjo to an Independent Otaku: The Transformations of the Female Protagonist in the Sarashina nikki Manga

  Pana Barova-Özcan

  331-371

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REVIEWS

• Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese I

  Ryan Francis Lidster

  373-378

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• New Essays in Japanese Aesthetics

  Rea Amit

  378-383

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• The Tale of Genji: A Japanese Classic Illuminated

  Marjorie Burge

  383-390

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• The Kanji Code: See the Sounds with Phonetic Components and Visual Patterns

  Sachiko Matsunaga

  390-394

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• Technology-Supported Learning In and Out of the Japanese Language Classroom: Advances in Pedagogy, Teaching and Research

  Masami Ikeda

  395-401

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CONTRIBUTORS

• Contributors

  Hiroshi Nara

  403-406

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BACK MATTER

• Back matter

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