“WORKING WORDS: NEW APPROACHES IN JAPANESE STUDIES”

Thirteen essays by scholars of Japan from a variety of humanities disciplines are now available on line through the Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies. Each essay takes a critical Japanese term and explores its movement through historical, literary and theoretical contexts. These essays were the product of workshops held over several years at Berkeley, Dartmouth and Georgetown to consider the state of the field of Japanese Studies and encourage interdisciplinary conversation. The concept of "Working Words" emerged as a simple but effective device for scholars to present some of the issues of their own work in a form that would be accessible and meaningful to scholars and students across the disciplines.

The archive is here:

http://escholarship.org/uc/search?entity=cjs_workingwords

Table of Contents

Sand , Jordan; Tansman, Alan; Washburn, Dennis: Working Words: New Approaches to Japanese Studies, 2011

Hosokawa, Shuhei: Ongaku, Onkyō / Music, Sound, 2012

Keirstead, Thomas: 史学 /Shigaku / History, 2012

Marran, Christine: 懺悔 / Zange: Buddhism, Gender and Meiji Literary Confession, 2012

Mizuta Lippit, Miya Elise: 美人 / Bijin / Beauty, 2012

Morikawa, Kaichirō: おたく/ Otaku / Geek, 2012

Sand, Jordan: 中流 / Chūryū / Middling, 2012

Satō , Kenji: 郷土 / Kyōdo / Native Soil, 2012

Tamanoi, Mariko Asano: 記憶 / Kioku / 思い出 / Omoide / Memory, 2012

Tansman, Alan: サブライム / Saburaimu / Sublime, 2012

Tsukahara, Tōgo: 科学 / Kagaku / 究理 /Kyūri: Science, 2012

Washburn, Dennis: 文学 / Bungaku / Literature, 2012

Winther-Tamaki, Bert: 洋画 / Yōga: The Western Painting, National Painting, and Global Painting of Japan, 2012

These essays were originally to be published in both paper and digital form as part of a University of California Press International and Area Studies Publications series. After peer review and acceptance of the volume, however, the series was terminated. The Josai University Review of Japanese Culture and Society plans to republish them together with other essays translated from Japanese.

This is an inherently open-ended project. Anyone interested in building upon it by creating new archives, please include a link to this one.