Journal of the ATJ
Current Issue: Vol. 43, No. 1, April 2009
Exposing the Private Origins of Public Stories: Narrative Perspective and the Appropriation of Selfhood in Murakami Haruki's Post-AUM Metafiction, Mark Yamada
Through Beastly Tears: Devouring the Dead in the Poetry of Ishigaki Rin, Lee Friederich
The Sword Trope and the Birth of the Shogunate: Historical Metaphors in Muromachi Japan, Vyjayanthi R. Selinger
Confucian Frosting on a Christian Cake: The Translation of an American Primer in Meiji Japan, Martin Nordeburg
Reviews
Ramirez-Christensen, Emptiness and Temporality: Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Poetics, reviewed by Takeshi Watanabe
Kimbrough, Preachers, Poets, Women, and the Way: Izumi Shikibu and the Buddhist Literature of Medieval Japan, reviewed by Catherine Ryu
Mori and Ohta, Japanese Applied Linguistics: Discourse and Social Perspectives, reviewed by Suwako Watanabe
Dissertation Abstracts, Frank Joseph Shulman
Forthcoming Issues
The Journal is published twice annually. Volume 43, No. 2, will be published in October 2009. With Volume 35, the name of the journal was changed to Japanese Language and Literature: Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese.
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