Trans-Pacific Cultural Studies

Takayuki Tatsumi, Ph.D., has taught American Literature and Critical Theory at Keio University, Tokyo, since 1989. He served as President of The American Literature Society of Japan (2014–2017) and of The Poe Society of Japan (2009–) and as Vice President of the Melville Society of Japan (2012–); he is currently a member of the editorial board of PARADOXA, Mark Twain Studies and the Journal of Transnational American Studies. His book Full Metal Apache: Transactions between Cyberpunk Japan and Avant-Pop America (Duke UP, 2006) won the 2010 IAFA (International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts) Distinguished Scholarship Award. Co-editor of the “New Japanese Fiction” issue of Review of Contemporary Fiction (Summer 2002), Robot Ghosts, Wired Dreams (U of Minnesota P, 2007), the special “Three Asias – Japan, S. Korea, China” issue of PARADOXA (No. 22, 2010) and The Routledge Companion to Transnational American Studies (Routledge, 2019), he has also published a variety of essays in PMLA, Critique, Extrapolation, American Book Review, Mechademia, The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature and elsewhere on subjects ranging from the American Renaissance to post-cyberpunk fiction and film. His recent collaborations include: The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature (2016) and The Liverpool Companion to World Science Fiction Film (2014). His recent monographs include: Young Americans in Literature: The Post-Romantic Turn in the Age of Poe, Hawthorne and Melville (Sairyusha, 2018).

Volume I: Trans-Pacific Americanism
Appendix of Sources
Foreword - Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Editor’s Introduction: Trans-Pacific Cultural Studies - Takayuki Tatsumi
U S –Japan Literary Interactions in the Transpacific Cultural History - Takayuki Tatsumi
Asian Crossroads
Transnational American Studies - Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Historical Lessons in Asian-American Relations: Searching for Inter-Civilizational Dialogue - Daizaburo Yui
A New Perspective on American History from the Other Side of the Pacific - Jun Furuya
Toward a Pacific Civilization - Gary Y Okihiro
Reprogramming Memories: The Historicization of the Vietnam War from the 1970s through the 1990s - Eikoh Ikui
A Global Superpower or a Model of Democracy? Images of America in Post-Cold War Japan - Fumiko Nishizaki
Chop Suey as Imagined Authentic Chinese Food: The Culinary Identity of Chinese Restaurants in the United States - Haiming Liu
To Clear Up a Cloud Hanging on the Pacific Ocean: The 1927 Japan-U.S. Doll Exchange - Rui Kohiyama
A Tragedy of Democracy: Japanese Confinement in North America - Greg Robinson
The Transnational Artists Yun-Fei Ji, Hung Liu, and Zhang Hongtu: Globalization, Hybridity, and Political Critique - Joyce Brodsky
The Archipelagic Black Global Imaginary: Walter White’s Pacific Island Hopping - Etsuko Taketani
Volume II: Trans-Pacific Literary Studies
Prelims
Literary History on the Road: Transatlantic Crossings and Transpacific Crossovers - Takayuki Tatsumi
Editors’ Introduction: New Perspectives on ‘The War-Prayer’ - Shelley Fisher Fishkin and Takayuki Tats
Mark Twain′s ′The War-Prayer′—The Reflections on Vietnam and Iraq - Mong-Lan
The Realm of an Empire and the Reach of Empathy: Reconsideration of Humanism in Mark Twain′s ′The War-Prayer′ - Michio Arimitsu
Mark Twain and Gensai Murai: A Japanese Inspiration for ′The War-Prayer′ - Kevin Mac Donnell
The Transpacific Gaze in Tropic of Orange - Gayle K Sato
The Melancholy Melodrama of "Honorary Whiteness": The Case of Yuasa Katsuei′s Colonial Fiction - Mary A Knighton
Herman Melville′s “Pequot Trilogy”: The Pequot War in Moby-Dick, Israel Potter and Clarel - Yukiko Oshima
Rethinking Cultural Awareness Toward Nature: Oriental Animals in Herman Melville′s Clarel - Mikayo Sakuma
Japanese Ishmael: "John" Manjiro Nakahama Crossing the Vital Year 1850 - Makino Arimichi
Onoto Watanna′s Japanese Collaborators and Commentators
“Will White Man and Yellow Man Ever Mix?”: Wallace Irwin, Hashimura Togo, and the Japanese Immigrant in America - Yoshiko Uzawa
Surviving the Perpetual Winter: The Role of Little Boy in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle - Fumika Nagano
Absent Presence as Nonprotest Narrative: Internment, Interethnicity, and Christianity in Hisaye Yamamoto’s “The Eskimo Connection” - Rie Makino
Pioneer Narrative of an Internee Girl: Cynthia Kadohata’s Weedflower (2006) and Nikkei Reclaim for the American West - Yukari Kato
The Imaginary Space in Indian-American Fiction: A Catalyst for Rebellion in Jhumpa Lahiri′s The Lowland - Shunsuke Shiga
Beyond K′s Specter: Chang-rae Lee′s A Gesture Life, Comfort Women Testimonies, and Asian American Transnational Aesthetics - Belinda Kong
Volume III: Science Fiction and Cyber Culture
Prelims
A Soft Time Machine: From Translation to Transfiguration - Takayuki Tatsumi
Horror and Machines in Prewar Japan: The Mechanical Uncanny in Yumeno Kyûsaku′s Dogura magura - Miri Nakamura
Two Essays on Science Fiction - Abe Kôbô
From Parody to Simulacrum: Japanese SF, Regionalism, and the Inauthentic in the Early Works of Komatsu Sakyo and Tsutsui Yasutaka - William O Gardner
Japanese SF, Its Originality and Orientation (1969) - Kôichi Yamano
“Collective Reason”: A Proposal (1971, rev. 2000) - Shibano Takumi
Space, Body, and Aliens in Japanese Women′s Science Fiction - Mari Kotani
Has the Empire Sunk Yet?—The Pacific in Japanese Science Fiction - Thomas Schnellbächer
Techno-Orientalism with Chinese Characteristics: Maureen F McHugh′s China Mountain Zhang - Christopher T Fan
“Great Wall Planet”: Introducing Chinese Science Fiction - Yan Wu
On the Mythologerm: Kalpavigyan and the Question of Imperial Science - Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
Crossing the Border: The Depiction of India in Ian McDonald′s River of Gods and Cyberabad Days - Suparno Banerjee
Volume IV: Cool Asia
Prelims
Introduction to Three Asias: Japan—Invisible Asias, Other Japans - Takayuki Tatsumi
Storming the Floating World of Postmodern Hyperreality - Larry McCaffery
Introduction to New Japanese Fiction - Larry McCaffery and Sinda Gregory
On the Monstrous Planet, or How Godzilla Took a Roman Holiday - Takayuki Tatsumi
The Japan Fad in Global Youth Culture and Millennial Capitalism - Anne Allison
Doll Beauties and Cosplay - Mari Kotani
Little House in the Far East: The American Frontier Spirit and Japanese Girls′ Comics - Hisayo Ogushi
Where Is My Place in the World? Early Shojo Manga Portrayals of Lesbianism - Yukari Fujimoto
Tezuka Is Dead: Manga in Transformation and Its Dysfunctional Discourse - Ito Go and Miri Nakamura
“Becoming-Insect Woman”: Tezuka′s Feminist Species - Mary A Knighton
Gundam and the Future of Japanoid Art - Takayuki Tatsumi
The Animalization of Otaku Culture - Thomas Lamarre and Hiroki Azuma
The Art of Cute Little Things: Nara Yoshitomo′s Parapolitics - Marilyn Ivy
The Sacrificial Economy of Cuteness in Tamala 2010: A Punk Cat in Space - Emily Raine
What Can a Vocaloid Do? The Kyara as Body without Organs - Sandra Annett