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Special Notice in Regard to the JAAS 2021 Annual Conference

2021.06.30 Annual Meeting

Dear Colleague,

We inform you that the JAAS Executive Board and Program Committee decided that our 55th Annual Conference on June 5-6, 2021, is to be held ONLINE. We appreciate the JAAS members and partners at Keio University, and apologize for inconveniences this decision may cause to those of you who had planned to attend the 2021 Conference. Details regarding the online conference will be provided on the JAAS official website and through the association mailing list.

Ayumu KANEKO
Chair, Program Committee, JAAS

55. Porverty (2021)

2021.04.14 The American Review

A Round table Discussion
The Past and Present of Racial Issues in America from
the Perspective of the Black Lives Matter Movement		 (1)
Special Topic: Poverty
Re-creating the Consumer Credit Market for the Poor in the U.S. OHASHI, Akira(31)
“Seldom Does One Find a Negro Begging on the Streets”:
Poverty and Race in Boston during the First Half of the
Twentieth Century		 OMORI, Kazuteru(55)
Rethinking the Demise of the National Welfare Rights Organization:
Systemic Racism, Gender, and Anti-welfare Ideology		 TSUCHIYA, Kazuyo(75)
Human Dignity and Two Types of Poverty:
Raymond Carver, John Steinbeck, and Erskine Caldwell		 YAMABE, Shota(97)
Articles
Color-Blind Casting of Animals:
Julie Taymor’s Representation Strategy in the Musical
“The Lion King”		 TAKEDA, Toshie(121)
Disagreements between Union Members and Union Executives over
President Trump: A Shift Away from Business Unionism		 TOMITA, Terumasa(141)
The Borderlands in Texas and Asia: The Intersection of Racial and
Ethnic Identities in Rolando Hinojosa’s Korean Love Songs and
The Useless Servants		 MATSUDA, Takuya(167)
Book Reviews
Ai HISANO, Visualizing Taste:
How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat		 SUZUKI, Toru(189)
FURUI, Yoshiaki. Modernizing Solitude: The Networked Individual in
Nineteenth-Century American Literature		 TAKAO, Naochika(195)

No.032 (2021) Transnationalism

2021.04.01 The Japanese Journal of American Studies

1. Editors Introduction

7. Yuko TAKAHASHI, Transgender Students and New Admission Policies at Historically Signifi cant Women’s Colleges in Twenty-First Century United States and Japan

29. Nozomi FUJIMURA, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Transnational Revision of America and Civil Wars: The American Claimant Manuscripts Reconsidered

51. Takayuki TATSUMI, The Laws of Literary Life Cycle: Reading Mark Twain’s Is He Dead? as a Transnational Play

71. Keiko ARAKI, Transnational Nationalism: Revisiting the Garvey Movement

91. Yoshie TAKAMITSU, Interwar Transnational Network and the British Commonwealth: The Institute of Pacifi c Relations and Transformation of Relations among the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, 1942-43

109. English-Language Works by JAAS Members 2019

Call for Paper Proposals: The 55th JAAS Annual Meeting

2021.03.15 Annual Meeting

The 55th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for American Studies,
(Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)

The 55th JAAS Annual Meeting will be held on June 5th and 6th, 2021 at Keio University, Tokyo. The JAAS Annual Meeting Program Coordinating Committee invites JAAS members to send paper proposals for the “Independent Paper Sessions” to be held on June 5th, 2020. If you are interested in giving a paper, please send by email a proposal that includes (1) your name, (2) your affiliation, (3) the title of your paper, (4) a summary of your paper (approximately 800 words) and (5) five keywords to the JAAS Annual Meeting Office (program@jaas.gr.jp) by November 20th, 2020 (Japanese Standard Time, JST).

The 55th Conference may be held online, if the of COVID-19 pandemic is not sufficiently resolved. Please check JAAS official website for the latest information.

[Proposals from Japan] Only JAAS members can submit a paper proposal. Proposals from non-members will be reviewed if their membership application is received by November 20th, 2019 and the membership is approved in the Board of Executive Directors meeting. Upon approval, you should compete your membership payment.

[Proposal from outside Japan]Non-members can submit a proposal. When the paper is accepted, you should register before March 1st, 2021 (JST) to ensure your presentation. Registration fee is 8,000 JPN. Please note that registration fee is non-refundable.

You can present a paper in the “Independent Paper Sessions” two years in a row, but not three years. A previously published paper will not be accepted.

If your proposal is accepted, you will be asked to submit your full paper (approximately 5,000 to 7,500 words) to the JAAS Annual Meeting Program Coordinating Committee by May 15th, 2021. The paper will be posted at the JAAS Internet site for two weeks before and after the Annual Meeting; it will be protected by a password that will be given to JAAS members only.

The JAAS Annual Meeting Program Coordinating Committee