The American Review

51. American Self-Images Reconsidered (2017)

2017.04.14 The American Review

Special Topic: American Self-Images Reconsidered

The Remnants of Empire: “The British Partyand the Transformation of the American Self-Image during the War of 1812

ENDO, Hirobumi(1)
Patriotism, Regional Attachment and Communal Responsibility in Sutton E. Griggs’ Novels: Southern Black Manhood at the Time of Spanish American War OKUDA, Akiyo(21)

American Exceptionalism in Obama’s Interventions: Redefining American Self-Image in a Turbulent World

KUSANO, Hiroki(45)

The U.S. as a “European Power”: G.H.W. Bush in the Context of U.S.-European Relations at the End of the Cold War

SHIDA, Junjiro(67)
The Globalization of Historiography and the “American Past” NAKANO, Kotaro(91)
Richard Hofstadter and Henry Adams: The Search for American Identity NAKANO, Hirofumi(117)

Regional Conflicts in the Formative Period of National Literature: Geopolitics of Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s America in The Linwoods

WAKABAYASHI, Makiko(139)
Articles
The Equivocal Poetics of Timothy Dwight: Reading Part IV of Greenfield Hill, “The Destruction of the Pequods” (1794) KOIZUMI, Yumiko(161)

The Birth of the Nurturing Father and Neoliberalism: The Representation of White Middle-class Fathers in Late Twentieth Century America

SEKIGUCHI, Yohei(183)

As a Chronicler of my own sex”: Antebellum Women, Citizenship, and Domestic History in Sarah J. Hale’s Woman’s Record

MASUDA, Kumiko(205)
Book Review

MINAMI Shuhei, The Men Who Build America: Everyday Lives of Construction Workers in New York City and Their “Patriotism”

YOKOYAMA, Ryo(229)
The Fiftieth Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -235

50. Occupation (2016)

2016.04.14 The American Review

Special Topic: Occupation

Govermentality and Rights of Movement in America’s Trans-Pacific Empire: From the Case Files of Filipino Applicants for Certificates of Citizenship in the Hawaiian Islands

OKADA, Taihei(1)
American Literature under Occupation OCHI, Hiromi(21)

The U.S. Occupation of Japan and Opinions toward Democracy: The Dissolution of the Prewar Lineage Based Political System and Tatsuo Iwabuchi

FUKUSHIMA, Hiroyuki(45)

Continuity and Discontinuity of Literary Space in Occupied Japan: A Case Study on Discourse Analysis on America in Magazines as Media

INOUE, Ken(67)

Registering Tribal Memories as National Historic Sites: The Northern Cheyenne Tribe’s Fight against U.S. National History

KAWAURA, Sachiko(87)
Articles

Formation of the Asian American Movement for Apology and Reparations from Japan: Transformation of Identity and Genealogy of Asian American Activism

OYAGI, Go(107)
The Momentum of American Normalization Talks with Cuba: Presidents, Politics, International Systems and Perceptions MATSUMOTO, Asuka(129)

The Cold War and the Crisis of Spirit: Billy Graham on Communism, Liberty and Original Sin

AIKAWA, Yusuke (149)
Book Review
Kazuyo Tsuchiya, Reinventing Citizenship: Black Los Angeles, Korean Kawasaki, and Community Participation KAWASHIMA, Masaki(167)
Seiko Mimaki, The Era of the Outlawry of War Movement SHINOHARA, Hatsue(175)
The Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -181
Abstracts -199

 

49. Monroe Doctrine Reconsidered (2015)

2015.04.14 The American Review

Special Topic: Monroe Doctrine Reconsidered

Manifesto of the American System: Jus Publicum Europaeum and the Monroe Doctrine

KANAI, Kotaro(1)

Undeclared Redefinition: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration and the Monroe Doctrine

OKUHIRO, Keita(21)

The Monroe Doctrine and U.S. Intervention Policy: The Origins of U.S. Unilateralism and Multilateralism

KUSANO, Hiroki(41)
The Monroe Doctrine, the Asian Monroe Doctrine, and the Respective Visions of International Order in Japan and the United States: Studies on the Monroe Doctrine in Prewar and Wartime Japan NAKAJIMA, Hiroo(61)

Shades of Latin America: A Hemispheric Reading of American Fiction in the 1980s

WATANABE, Mariko(81)

Geographic Imagination in African American Literature: Unmapping the Monroe Doctrine

TAKETANI, Etsuko(99)
Articles

From Private Grief to Public Mourning: Roger Malvin’s Unfinished Burial

KOMIYAMA, Mamiko(119)

From Republican Mothers to Daughters of the Benevolent Empire”: Benevolence in Sarah Josepha Hale’s Northwood

MASUDA, Kumiko(135)

The Encantadas” as a Sentinel in the Pacific: Relics of the Barren Paradise

OTAKE, Yu(157)

Opening the Constitution, Freeing Slaves: Frederick Douglass’s United States Constitution

GONDA, Kenji(177)
Homemaking in Africa: Osa Johnson and the United States of the 1920s HASEGAWA, Shiori(197)
A Gorilla’s Prayer after a Nuclear War: Reading Bernard Malamud’s God’s Grace HAMURA, Takashi(217)
Book Review  
Kenryu Hashikawa, Rural Enterprise in the Rise of American Capitalism: Land-based Small Businesses in New Jersey and Emerging Economic Networks in the Early Republic YAGYU, Tomok(239)
The Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -245
Abstracts -263

48. Elections and American Society (2014)

2014.04.14 The American Review

Special Topic: Elections and American Society

The Heritage of Election Day Sermons in American Literary History: Increase Mather, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sacvan Bercovitch

TATSUMI, Takayuki(1)
The 1853 Elections and Their Age in Pudd’nhead Wilson UENISHI, Tetsuo(21)

NLRB Union Representation Elections in Industrial Relations: From the Wagner Act to the Taft-Hartley Act

NAKAJIMA, Jo(39)
Reconsidering Elections in the Context of American Democracy MACHIDORI, Satoshi (63)

Barack Obama and Outreach to the Minority Voters: Balancing “Post-Racial” Narratives and Identity Politics

WATANABE, Masahito(77)
Articles

In the Name of Self Defense: The Expulsion of Foreign Paupers and Nineteenth-Century American Immigration Policy

HIROTA, Hidetaka(99)

The Promotion of Area Studies after World War II: An Analysis of the Relationship between the Promotion of Area Studies and the Advancement of the Social Sciences

SASAKI, Yutaka(119)
Book Review

Yoshiyuki Kido, Chinese Immigrants in the United States: The Making of a “Nation of Immigrants”

NAKANO, Hirofumi(139)

Keiko Nitta, Cartographies of American Literature: Cognitive Mapping as a Mode of Literary Criticism

MAKINO, Rie(147)

Toshihiko Aono, The Cold War and the Western Alliance during the Crisis Years

YAMAZUMI, Toru(153)
The Forty-Seventh Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -159
Abstracts -177

47. Anglo-America (2013)

2013.03.14 The American Review

Anglo-America
The Anglo-American Dream of Benjamin Franklin: The Stamp Act Crisis and the Sense of Nationality SATO, Mitsushige(1)
“We Are Kin in Sin”: Anglo-American Representations in Mark Twain’s Novels ISHIHARA, Tsuyoshi(21)
Against “Provincialism”: Ezra Pound’s “Renaissance” Project NAGAHATA, Akitoshi(41)
A North American Agent Jeremiah Dummer and the British Empire of his Age: One Aspect of the Eighteenth Century Anglo-American Politics  MORI, Takeo(59)
The Vietnam War and Collective Defense: Anglo-American Relations within SEATO during the Vietnam War, 1965-1968 MIZUMOTO, Yoshihiko(79)
The first Invitation to “Empire”: collaboration between Edward Mandell house and Sir Edward Grey over U.S. participation in World War I SAKADE, Takeshi(99)
Articles
The Uncanny Return of the Past: Holocaust Representation in Cynthia Ozick’s The Shawl HAMURA, Takashi(109)
Nitobe Inazo’s Speech Tours in America after the Manchurian Incident TANIGUCHI, Maki(129)
The Role of De Forest and Minagawa in Introducing Television to Japan ARIMA, Tetsuo(149)
Nathaniel Hawthorne and a Construction of Literary World –“The Virtuoso’s   Collection” as a Museum TAKENO, Fumiko(169)
The Katsu Goto Memorial: Representations of the Lynching of a Japanese Immigrant in Hawaii HORI, Erika(185)
The   Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting: A Summary Report -205
Abstracts -219

46. The Sea and the State (2012)

2012.03.14 The American Review

The Sea and the State
The American Civil War in the Transatlantic Abolition of Slavery NISHIDE, Keiichi
Orphans, Oceans, and Moby-Dick HASHIMOTO, Yasunaka
The Price of National Prestige: An Interpretation of the Japan-U.S. Confrontation   over Hawaii at the Turn of the Century ITO, Koji
The Geopolitics of Submarine Cables: From British Telegraph Networks to the   American Internet TSUCHIYA, Motohiro
Articles
U.S.-Australia relations concerning Asia-Pacific during Sino-Japanese War TAKAMITSU, Yoshie
“The Beginning of America’s ‘Pro-Israeli’ Policy: A Case of the USS Liberty   Incident during the Six Day War” TOMINAGA, Erika
Levi-Strauss’ Perspective of NonAssimilation and the Spirit of Charity in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest MAKINO, Rie
Historical Contexts of the Atomic Bombings against Japan in the U. S. History Textbooks: World War II, the Cold War, and the Nuclear Age FUJITA, Satoshi
“Providence and “A Remarkable Meteor” Seen in Uraga?Perry, Hawthorne and the Opening of Japan? NAKANISHI, Kayoko
What Is Nikkei in the US Now?: Identity Politics of a Student Organization and   “Japanese Americans” KINOSHITA, Akira
Book Review
Hiroshi Kitamura, Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan IIOKA, Shiro
The Forty-Fifth Annual Meeting: A Summary Report
Abstracts

 

45. Disease and Institutions (2011)

2011.03.14 The American Review

Disease and Institutions
Reproductive Rights and Social Welfare: Informed Consent for Sterilization ONO, Naoko
Health Insurance and the Social Security Act of 1935: The Vision of Edgar   Sydenstricker and I.S. Falk and the Medical Advisory Board SATO, Chitose
Disease, Hippie and Neoliberalism: Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland MIURA, Reiichi
Health Care Reform and the Transformation of Party Politics in the United States: Universal Health Insurance Reform and Medical Reform AMANO, Taku
Articles
Sarah Josepha Hale and Domestic Ideology in the (Anti-) Boardinghouse Novel MASUDA, Kumiko
Paper-made Emerald City: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Paper Currency System AKIMOTO, Takafumi
Politics in History Museums and the Private Sector: The George Washington Politics “Lansdowne” Portrait as Case Study YOKOYAMA, Saki
Rethinking the Women’s Peace Movements in the United States: Women Strike for Peace in the 1960s SATO, Masaya
The Commercial Society’s Ethic and the Spirit of “Social” Capitalism: Politeness   and Sociability in Franklin’s Autobiography WANIBUCHI, Shuichi
Reserach Note
Importance of Assuming a Social Historical Perspective in Examining Recent American Trade Policy KOYAMA, Kumiko
Book Review
Satoru Mori, The Vietnam War and Alliance Diplomacy: The Impact   of British and French Peace Initiatives on U.S. Policy FUJIMOTO, Hiroshi
The Forty-Fourth Annual Meeting: A Summary Report
Abstracts

44. Turn of the Century in the US (2010)

2010.03.14 The American Review

Turn of the Century in the US
The National Negro Business League and Its Politics of African-American   Collective Memories at the Turn of the Twentieth Century KANEKO, Ayumu
Japan as Domestic Space: Lilla Cabot Perry at the Turn into the Twentieth Century MATSUKAWA, Yuko
U.S. Policy over the Korean Peninsula from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century MATSUDA, Haruka
Falling Bodies, Failing Words: Narratives Before/After 9/11 OZAWA, Eimi
Lynching and Torture at the Turn of Two Centuries: On Lynchings (1892-1900) and Guantanamo: ‘Honor Bound to Defend Freedom’ (2004) SAKUMA, Yuri
Articles
John F. Kennedy and the Neutralization of South Vietnam MATSUOKA, Hiroshi
“The Jumbo Domestication”: Exhibition of Animals and Sentimentalism at the   End of the Nineteenth Century MARUYAMA, Yuki
Book Review
Itsuki Kurashina, The Eisenhower Administration and West Germany: East-West Arms Control Negotiations as Alliance Policy ONOZAWA,Toru
A New Generation Scholar Discusses a New Woman in Faulkner’s Novels: Koichi Suwabe, William Faulkner’s Poetics: 1930-1936 FUJIHIRA, Ikuko
The Forty-Third Annual Meeting: A Summary Report
Abstracts

43. The President (2009)

2009.03.14 The American Review

The President
Hawthorne’s Image of George Washington IRIKO, Fumiko
The Foreign Policy Archetype of the American Presidency: From George Washington to John Quincy Adams NAKAJIMA, Hiroo
Dialogue and Secrecy: John F. Kennedy’s Policy Making TSUCHIDA, Hiroshi
War Powers Derived from the Presidential Image KITAGAWA OTSURU, Chieko
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Proclamations of National Emergency: Crisis and Presidential Power OKUHIRO, Keita
Articles
The Politics of Family Support in Early-Twentieth-Century America GOTO, Chiori
Extraterritorializing Literature: Translation, Dual Nationality and the Hardboiled in A Fairwell to Arms TSUJI, Hideo
Rebuilding Little Tokyo?: Community and Interracialism in the Resttlement Era MINAMIKAWA, Fuminori
Technology and an Immigrant Version of Americanism: Swedish-American Representation of the Ironclad Monitor and John Ericsson TSUCHIDA, Eiko
Inventing and Performing the Self: Image of the Japanese-American Painter in Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Self-Portraits KIKUKAWA, Masako
Globalizing “American Peace”: The Outlawry of War Movement in Interwar America MIMAKI, Seiko
Chase and Modernity: Representation of Time and Movement in Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! HASEGAWA, Koichi
Book Review
Yoshie Takamitsu, Japan, China and the United States in Interwar “Globalization” TAKITA, Kenji
Yumi Hiratai, Social Reform in American Federal System: Child Labor Regulations in the Early Twentieth-Century HIRATA, Miwako
Katsuyuki Murata, Latino Ethnicity and the Shifting Boundaries of   Americanness: The Sociocultural History of “the Undocumented Immigration Problem” NAKAGAWA, Masanori
The Forty-Second Annual Meeting: A Summary Report
Abstracts

42. Nuclear Space (2008)

2008.03.14 The American Review

Nuclear Space
One Minute after the Detonation of the Atomic Bomb: the Erased Effect of Residual Radiation TAKAHASHI, Hiroko
The Language of the Nuclear Age: Critical Approach to the Rhetoric of Containment and Deterrence SHIMOKOBE, Michiko
The Nuclear Imagination of a Mad Scientist: a Note on Nikola Tesla SHINDO, Masaaki
Nevada Test Site and Yucca Mountain: The Construction of Nuclear Space and Racism ISHIYAMA, Noriko
The Pugwash Conferences and American Scientists’ Quest for Disarmament and Stable Mutual Deterrence, 1955-1963 KUROSAKI, Akira
NPT Regime and Defense Industrial Base-US,UK, and West Germany Nuclear and Military Expenditure Negotiations (March 1966-April 1967)Surrounding the NATO Crisis of 1966 SAKADE, Takeshi
Prosthetics in the Cold War: Discourses and Representations of Hearing Aid in the Atomic Age MISOE, Atsuro
Articles 
The Claim Against “Enemy Alien” Status of Koreans in Wartime Hawai’i Redefining “Korean” and Reconstructing Nationalism LEE, Rika Rihwa
Hardhat Patriots: the Construction Workers in New York City and the Change of Their Lives MINAMI, Shuhei
Book Review
Taku Amano, Professional Groups and Health Policy in the United States SUNADA, Ichiro
Maho Toyoda, Labor Reform for/against Women in the US Occupation of Japan SATO, Chitose
Jun Kamata, Resistance at the Margin: Radioactive Waste and American Indian Social Movement MATSUNAGA, Kyoko
Sadao Asada, From Mahan to Pearl Harbor: Imperial Japanese Navy and the United States Sadao Asada, Culture Shock and Japanese-American Relations: Historical Essay MIWA, Kimitada
The Forty-First Annual Meeting: A Summary Report
Abstracts