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Emily Cook
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Subjects: Africana Studies, Arabic, Art, Art History, Classics, East Asian Languages and Literatures, East Asian Studies, English, French, German, History, Italian, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Literature in Translation, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Middle East & South Asian Studies, Music, Philosophy, Portuguese, Religion, Russian, Russian Area Studies, Spanish, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Select Readings on Modern Japanese Culture
- Brau, Lorie. “Oishinbo’s Adventures in Eating: Food, Communication, and Culture in Japanese Comics,” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Fall 2004), pp34-45.
- Bryce, Mio. & Davis, Jason. “An Overview of Manga Genres” in Manga: An Anthology of Global and Cultural Perspectives, Ed. Toni Johnson-Woods. Continuum, 2010, pp 34-61.
- Clarke, Hugh. “Language.” The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture. Ed. Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Cambridge Collections Online. Cambridge University Press.
- Ishige, Naomichi. “Food culture.” The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture. Ed. Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Cambridge Collections Online. Cambridge University Press.
- Kinsella, Sharon. “A Short History of Manga” in Adult Manga Culture & Power in Contemporary Japanese Society, Ed. Sharon Kinsella. Routledge Curzon, 2000, pp 19-49.
- Leheny, David. “A Narrow Place to Cross Swords: Soft Power and the Politics of Japanese Popular Culture in East Asia” in Beyond Japan: The Dynamics of East Asian Regionalism. Ed. Peter J. Katzenshtein and Takashi Shiraishi. Cornell University Press, 2006, pp 211-233.
- Mackie, Vera. “Reading Lolita in Japan,” in Girl Reading Girl in Japan, Routledge, 2010, pp 187-201.
- McGray, Douglas. “Japan’s Gross National Cool,” Foreign Policy, 130, May-June, 2002, pp. 44-54.
- Morton, J. & Sasanuma, S. “Lexical access in Japanese” in Orthographies and Reading: Perspectives from Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology and Linguistics. L. Erlbaum Associations, 1984, pp 25-42.
- Napier, Susan. “The world of anime fandom in America.” Mechademia Vol. 1 (2006), 47-63.
- Norris, Craig. “Manga, anime and visual art culture.” The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture. Ed. Yoshio Sugimoto. Cambridge University Press, 2009. Cambridge Collections Online. Cambridge University Press.
- Ohnuki-Tierny, Emiko. “Rice as Self, Rice Paddies as Our Land,” in Rice as Self, Japanese identities through time, Princeton University Press, 1993, pp 81-98.
- Phillips, Suzanne. “Characters, Themes, and Narrative Patterns in the Manga of Osamu Tezuka” in Japanese Visual Culture. Ed. Mark W. MacWilliams.M.E. Shape, 2008, pp 68-90.
- Shamoon, Deborah. “Situating the Shojo in Shojo Manga: Teenage Girls, Romance Comics, and Contemporary Japanese Culture,” in Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime. M.E. Sharpe, 2008, pp 137-155.
- Stanlaw, James. “The dynamics of English words in contemporary Japanese: Japanese English and a ‘beautiful human life" in Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact. Hong Kong University Press, 2004, pp11-44.
- Stanlaw, James. “Is it naisu rice or good gohan?: In Japan, it’s not what you eat, but how you say it” in Japanese English: Language and Culture Contact. Hong Kong University Press, 2004, pp189-210.
- Toku, Masami. “Shojo manga! Girls’ comics! A mirror of girls’ dreams.” Mechademia Vol. 2 (2007), 19-32.
- Yoshioka, Shiro. “Heart of Japaneseness: History and Nostalgia in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away,” in Japanese Visual Culture: Explorations in the World of Manga and Anime. M.E. Sharpe, 2008, pp 256-273.