"Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) was a writer who thrived on iconoclasm and agitation. He remains one of the most creative and stimulating thinkers of twentieth-century Japan. Ango was catapulted into the public consciousness in the months immediately following Japan's surrender to the Allied Forces in 1945. The energy and iconoclasm of his writings were matched by the outrageous and outsized antics of his life. Behind that life, and in the m ..."
"Ysko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Ysko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential panel featuring Ysko Tawada was organized by MLA President Marjorie Perloff, who has contributed a preface to this volume. The essays explor ..."
"Slaymaker (Japan studies, U. of Kentucky) is joined by several other American scholars of Japanese culture to explore the ways that popular culture has its context within history, and how in these globalized times it is difficult to determine exactly whose culture it is. Essays examine how World War II concepts have influenced modern Japanese culture, how Japanese popular culture is succeeding in the US, and how ancient Japanese myth an ..."
Confluences Postwar Japan and France (Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies) 通过 DouglasSlaymaker Hardcover, 200 页, 发布时间 2002 通过 U Of M Center For Japanese Studies ISBN-13: 978-1-929280-14-8, ISBN: 1-929280-14-9
"France and Japan have shared much in a long and critical history of artistic practice and production. France has been an important source of energy for Japanese intellectual endeavors, and the impact of French painting, literature, and thought on Japan cannot be overstated. Likewise, France has been stimulated by an image of Japan as 'Other' and the impact of Japanese prints on French (and European) art, the artistic production known as ..."
"Kaji Michiyo stayed. Leaving her daughter in the care of her mother, Michiyo's
first visit lasted upwards of four days. Not long after she moved in permanently—
and without her daughter. Michiyo's life with Ango also resembles the reader's
experience of his works. On one of their very first dates Michiyo and Ango
meandered through the animated, surrealistic landscape that was Shinjuku right
after the war. In this labyrinth of backst ..."
"Karatani is also editing the most recent of Ango's Complete Works, with Sekii
Mitsuo. Sekii has been active in this regard, recently as editor of a special volume
(bessatsu), in which Karatani figures prominently, in the series put together by the
journal Kokubungaku kaishaku to kanshō, Sakaguchi Ango to Nihon bunka,
Tokyo: Ibundo, 1999. 4 Carolyn Dean suggests, in the context of reading Lacan,
that the tendency to posit a symbolic ..."
"This work analyzes the vast impact that Aum Shinrikyo has had on Japanese society, including its great appeal to Japanese youth, the so-called “Aum Generation”."
"Yoko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yoko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential panel featuring Yoko Tawada was organized by MLA President Marjorie Perloff, who has contributed a preface to this volume. The essays explor ..."
"®Given. this material, a full-length novel is called for, ̄ wrote Niwa Fumio in his
judgment on the Akutagawa Prizes for that year.33 For all the story«s interest and
authority, too many characters means none are fully developed, he suggests.
Many of the judges (who included such luminaries as Uno K-ji, Sat- Haruo,
Kawabata Yasunari, and Sakaguchi Ango34) critiqued the work for thinness of
characterization. A number commented on th ..."
"Masuda Koh, general editor. Kenkyusha's New Japanese–English Dictionary. 4th edition. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1974. Matsuda Yumi. “'Sakura no mori no mankai no shita' no oni.” In Sakaguchi Ango kenkyū. Ed. Moriyasu Masafumi, andTakano ..."
"Essays on topics from animation heroes, films, to unsuccessful politicians, and pay particular attention to issues of gender, commercialization, and nationalisms."