Publications

Co-edited volumes

For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature, co-edited with Norma Field. This well-annotated anthology is a collection of forty creative and critical works translated into English. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016.

 

Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century, co-edited with Ruth Barraclough and Paula Rabinowitz. Volume of scholarly essays on proletarian desire around the globe mid-20th century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

 

Guest editor for special journal issue

Proletarian Arts in East Asia: Quests for National, Gender and Class Justice, editor. Special edition of positions: east asia cultures critique (Fall 2006).

 

Peer-reviewed publications

“Between Men: Comrade Love in Japanese Proletarian Literature.” In Red Love Across the Pacific: Political and Sexual Revolutions of the Twentieth Century, co-edited with Ruth Barraclough and Paula Rabinowitz, 59-80. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

 

“The Crab Cannery Ship Boom, Amamiya Karin and the Precariat: Dance Dance Revolution?” [full text available]. In Lineages of the Literary Left: Essays in Honor of Alan M. Wald, edited by Howard Brick, Robbie Lieberman, and Paula Rabinowitz, 159-179. Ann Arbor, MI: Maize Books, Michigan Publishing, 2015.

 

“Streets of Promise, Streets of Sorrow: Kobayashi Takiji and the Proletarian Movement.” Japanese Studies, special edition, edited by Vera Mackie. Vol. 31, Issue 3 (December 2011): 305-318.

 

“Sexing class: ‘The Prostitute’ in Japanese proletarian literature.” In Gender and Labour in Japan and Korea: Sexing Class, edited by Ruth Barraclough and Elyssa Faisson, 10-26. Routledge Press: London and New York, 2009.

 

“Why a Boom in Proletarian Literature in Japan? The Kobayashi Takiji Memorial and The Factory Ship” [full text available]. The Asia-Pacific Journal, June 29, 2009. Readership to date (10/11/15): 31,291.

 

“Proletarian Arts in East Asia” [full text available]. The Asia-Pacific Journal, April 16, 2007. Invited essay, based on the introduction to the special edition: Proletarian Arts in East Asia: Quests for National, Gender and Class Justice. Readership to date (10/11/15): 57,490.

 

“Introduction. Proletarian Arts in East Asia: Quests for National, Gender and Class Justice.” positions: east asia cultures critique special edition, guest-edited by author. Vol. 14, Issue 2 (Fall 2006): 251-278.

 

“Rival Imagined Communities: Class and Nation in Japanese Proletarian Literature.” positions: east asia cultures critique special edition, guest-edited by author. Vol. 14, Issue 2 (Fall 2006): 373-404.

 

“The Epistemology of Torture: 24 and Japanese Proletarian Literature” [full text available]. The Asia-Pacific Journal, September 25, 2006. Readership to date (10/11/15): 36,369.

 

“Revolutionizing the Japanese Family: Miyamoto Yuriko’s ‘The Family of Koiwai.’” positions: east asia cultures critique. Vol. 12, Issue 2 (Fall 2004): 479-507.

 

Japanese language publications

「『安子』と国際モガのジレンマ」 [Yasuko and the Dilemma of the International Modern Girl]. In 『2012小樽小林多喜二記念シンポジウム論文集』 [Proceedings of the 2012 Kobayashi Takiji Memorial Symposium at Otaru Commercial University], edited by Ogino Fujio, 153-167. Otaru Shoka University and Kinokuniya, 2013.

 

「クールジャパンがなくしたこと、見つかったこと」[Lost and Found in “Cool Japan”]. In『日本的想像力の未来~クール・ジャパノロジーの可能性』 [The Futures of Japanese Creative Power: The Possibilities of Cool Japanology], edited by Azuma Hiroki, 161-168. Tokyo: NHK Books, 2010. In second printing.

 

「痛んでいる身体におけるプロレタリア文学史」, “Bodies in Pain: A Brief History of Proletarian Literature through Pain” [in Japanese and English]. In 『2008年オクスフォード小林多喜二記念論文集  –多喜二の視点から見た身体、地域、教育』 [Report of the 2008 Kobayashi Takiji Memorial Symposium at Oxford—Bodies, Regions, and Education through the Eyes of Takiji], edited by Ogino Fujio and the Committee of the Oxford Kobayashi Takiji Symposium Essay Collection, 96-110. Otaru Shoka University and Kinokuniya: February 20, 2009.

 

「Rising to the Challenges:　困難でもやりがいのある課題へ向けての決起」, “In Summary: Rising to the Challenges” [full text available in Japanese and English], Japanese translation by Shimamura Teru. In 『2008年オクスフォード小林多喜二記念論文集  –多喜二の視点から見た身体、地域、教育』 [Report of the 2008 Kobayashi Takiji Memorial Symposium at Oxford—Bodies, Regions, and Education through the Eyes of Takiji], edited by Ogino Fujio and the Committee of the Oxford Kobayashi Takiji Symposium Essay Collection, 292-296. Otaru Shoka University and Kinokuniya, February 20, 2009.

 

[プロレタリア文学――世界を見通すにあたって、それがなぜ大切なのか] [Japanese Proletarian Literature: Why It Matters From a World Perspective,] translated by Shimamura Teru. Invited essay in 『日本近代文学』[Japanese modern literature], Vol. 77, edited by the Nihon Kindai Bungakukai (Summer 2007): 283-293.

 

「男同士：『工場細胞』における男たちの絆」[Between Men: Male-Male Camaraderie in The Factory Cell]、『生誕100年記念小林多喜二国際シンポジウム Part II―多喜二文学、時代を超えて いま世界に生き』 [2nd Annual Kobayashi Takiji International Symposium: The Writings of Kobayashi Takiji Across Generations and National Boundaries], 130-137. Tokyo: Shirakaba Bungakukan Takiji Library, 2005.

 

「日本プロレタリア文学を考え直す」[Rethinking Japanese Proletarian Literature]. In『小林多喜二生誕100年・没後70周年記念シンポジウム記録集』 [Kobayashi Takiji Commemorative Symposium Proceedings], 104-107. Tokyo: Shirakaba Bungakukan Takiji Library, February 2004.

 

Translations and live interpreting

With Brian Bergstrom, live interpreter for Amamiya Karin (activist and author), “What March 11 Means to Me: A Symposium in Honor of Norma Field,” University of Chicago, March 11, 2012.

 

Literary translations forthcoming in For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution: An Anthology of Japanese Proletarian Literature, co-edited with Norma Field (University of Chicago Press): Aono Suekichi, “Natural Growth and Purposeful Consciousness” [Shizen seichō to mokuteki ishiki] and “Natural Growth and Purposeful Consciousness: Further Thoughts” [Shizen seichō to mokuteki ishiki sairon], Bungei sensen, 1926 and 1927; Sata [Kubokawa] Ineko, “Leafleting” [Bira maki], Hinotori, 1929; Miyamoto [Chujo] Yuriko, “The Breast” [Chibusa], Chuo koron, 1935; Miyamoto Yuriko, “Buds that Survive the Winter” [Fuyu o kosu tsubomi], Bungei, 1934; Wakasugi Toriko, “A Mother” [Hahaoya], Hihan, 1931.

 

Other publications

“Proletarian Literature Reconsidered.” PAJLS (Proceedings of the Association for Japanese Literary Studies): Issues of Canonicity and Canon Formation in Japanese Literary Studies, edited by Stephen Miller. Vol. 1 (AJLS, Summer 2000).

 

“Laborers of Love in Snow Country.” PMAJLS (Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies): Love and Sexuality in Japanese Literature, edited by Eiji Sekine. Vol. 5 (University of Michigan and MAJLS, Summer 1999).

 

“The Textual Condition of Miyamoto Yuriko’s “The Family of Koiwai’.” MAJLS (Midwest Association of Japanese Literary Studies). PMAJLS (Proceedings of the Midwest Association for Japanese Literary Studies): The New Historicism and Japanese Literary Studies, edited by Eiji Sekine. Vol. 4 (University of Michigan and MAJLS, Summer 1998).