WEATHERHEAD BOOKS ON ASIA Kimura Yūsuke. Sacred Cesium Ground and Isa's Deluge: Two Novellas of Japan's 3/11 Disaster Translated by Doug Slaymaker (2018) "Kimura pulls the reader into the irradiated zone where residents struggle for justice against a government that treats them as disposable as the cattle they illegally tend. Sacred Cesium asks tough questions: What will … [Read more...]
Idly Scribbling Rhymers: Poetry, Print, and Community in Nineteenth-Century Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Robert Tuck (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. How can literary forms fashion a nation? Though genres such as the novel and newspaper have been credited with shaping a national imagination and a sense of community, during the rapid modernization of the Meiji period, Japanese … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes Tyran Grillo, the 2017-18 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in East Asia and the Americas
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is pleased to welcome Tyran Grillo, the 2017-2018 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Scholar in East Asia and the Americas, to the Columbia community. Dr. Grillo received his PhD in Japanese Literature in 2017 from Cornell University, where his research focused on (mis)representations of animals in Japanese popular culture, as well as intersections … [Read more...]
Haruo Shirane, Tomi Suzuki, and David Lurie Publish “The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature”
WEAI professors Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, along with Columbia University professor David Lurie, have recently co-edited the landmark book The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature. The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. … [Read more...]
