Call for Papers

Rocky Mountain Modern Languages Association Annual Meeting

Tucson, Arizona

October 12-14, 2006

This panel will address issues concerning the ways in which war and the experience of war have been remembered and represented in Japanese tales, poetry, reportage, memoirs, novels, short stories and films. How have battlefield, home front and/or occupation experience been recorded, recounted and reenacted? How have differing perspectives (combatant, civilian, gender-based, official) shaped the memory and depiction of war? What has been remembered and revealed? What has been forgotten, repressed, distorted and concealed? How have Japanese writers and filmmakers dealt with essential matters such as ideology, propaganda, trauma, atrocity, death, survival, loss, guilt, responsibility, meaning and memorialization? What lessons have they drawn from their personal and collective experience of war? What are the legacies of civil and international war? To what extent have unresolved issues from earlier conflicts created conditions conducive to renewed hostilities?

Papers on traditional, modern and or/contemporary works are welcome. Preference is for unpublished papers and papers not currently under consideration for publication. Please send 250-word abstracts (email preferred) and title to:

David C. Stahl
German, Russian & East Asian Languages
Binghamton University (SUNY)
PO BOX 6000
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
(607) 777-3876
dstahl@binghamton.edu

DEADLINE: March 1, 2006