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Published on: 5/6/2001
Last Visited: 2/28/2005
John Treat (Professor, Yale University)
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Questions of language during these years are linked, Treat will argue, not only to vocabulary to but to questions of individual agency (shutaisei) and national sovereignty in ways seldom noted in the extant scholarship.
John Treat is Professor of modern Japanese language and literature at Yale University and co-editor of The Journal of Japanese Studies.His recent publications include Writing Ground Zero: Japanese Literature and the Atomic Bomb, University of Chicago Press, 1995, Contemporary Japan and Popular Culture, ed.Curzon Press/University of Hawaii Press, 1996, Great Mirrors Shattered: Orientalism, Homosexuality and Japan (Oxford, 1999).The talk is abstracted from his forthcoming book, Governing Metaphors: A History of Modern Japanese Literature.