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Living on the Edge: The Negotiation of Modern Borders in Nagai Kafū’s Amerika monogatari (2023)
Book Chapter
Dodd, S. (2023). Living on the Edge: The Negotiation of Modern Borders in Nagai Kafū’s Amerika monogatari. In A. Uchiyama, & B. Hartley (Eds.), Border-Crossing Japanese Literature: Reading Multiplicity (43-58). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003143178-4

This chapter argues that Nagai Kafū’s (1879–1959) literary works can be read as a series of negotiations with multiple borders. Indeed, it is this very encounter with a range of diverse realities both within Japan and abroad that informed Kafū’s expe... Read More about Living on the Edge: The Negotiation of Modern Borders in Nagai Kafū’s Amerika monogatari.

Undō toshite no modanizumu: Nikaragua kara Nihon e (2019)
Book Chapter
Dodd, S. (2019). Undō toshite no modanizumu: Nikaragua kara Nihon e. In M. Noami (Ed.), Sekai bungaku to Nihon kindai bungaku = 世界文学と日本近代文学 (63-83). Tōkyō daigaku shuppan kai = 東京大学出版会

Kajii Motojirō bungaku ni okeru mono no rekishi (2016)
Book Chapter
Dodd, S. (2016). Kajii Motojirō bungaku ni okeru mono no rekishi. In .. Kokubungaku kenkyū shiryōkan (Ed.), Mō hitotsu no Nihon bungakushi – Muromachi, seiai, jikan (182-196). Bensei shuppan

Space and Time in Modern Japanese Literature (2016)
Book Chapter
Dodd, S. (2016). Space and Time in Modern Japanese Literature. In R. Hutchinson, & L. D. Morton (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature (13-25). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315762210

Anyone involved in the critical reading of literature knows that there are numerous ways in which to read a text. In this chapter my critical approach examines the spatial and temporal configurations that can be identified in a literary text. This ap... Read More about Space and Time in Modern Japanese Literature.

The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojiro (2014)
Book
Dodd, S. (2014). The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojiro. University of Hawai'i Press. https://doi.org/10.21313/hawaii/9780824838409.001.0001

When he died from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one, Kajii Motojirō had written only twenty short stories. Yet his life and work, it is argued here, sheds light on a significant moment in Japanese history and, ultimately, adds to our understandin... Read More about The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojiro.

Self and Other in the Writings of Kajii Motojiro (2007)
Book Chapter
Dodd, S. (2007). Self and Other in the Writings of Kajii Motojiro. In R. Hutchinson, & M. Williams (Eds.), Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature. A Critical Approach (96-108). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203012345-14

Some writers, like Tanizaki Jun’ichiro¯ , led such eventful, varied and – perhaps most importantly – long lives, that simply to investigate the petty dramas of their literary careers can prove to be a source of fascination. This cannot be said of Kaj... Read More about Self and Other in the Writings of Kajii Motojiro.

Writing Home. Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature (2004)
Book
Dodd, S. (2004). Writing Home. Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature. Harvard University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1tg5m45

This book examines the development of Japanese literature depicting the native place (furusato) from the mid-Meiji period through the late 1930s as a way of articulating the uprootedness and sense of loss many experienced as Japan modernized. The 189... Read More about Writing Home. Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature.