List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Stating the Field, Seth Jacobowitz and Jonathan E. Abel Part I: Negotiating Disciplinary Formation 1. Between the Margins and the Mainstream: Modern Japanese Women Writers and Evolving Trends in North American Japanese Literature Scholarship, Rebecca Copeland 2. The Inclusion of Okinawa in Japanese Literary Studies, Davinder Bhowmik 3. Do Black Lives Still Matter to Japanese Literary Studies? William H. Bridges IV 4. Ecocritical Precedent, Present, and Possibility in Japanese Literary Studies, Jonathan L. Pitt 5.

Comixing Frameworks: Rethinking the Euro-American Critical Paradigm from the Perspective of Manga Studies, Adam Kern 6. Approaches to Researching and Teaching Manga as Literature, Deborah Shamoon Part II. The Question of Language 7. World Literature and Japanese-Language Literature, Hideto Tsuboi 8. The History and Present of Japanophone Literature: Migration, Border Crossing, and Materiality, Hibi Yoshitaka 9. Modern Japanese Literature and Sinitic Literary Traditions, Matthew Fraleigh 10. Literature and the Cultural Politics of Immigration: Between Lee Hoesung and Yang Yi in the "Era of the Immigrant," YoungRan Ko (trans. Seth Jacobowitz) 11.

Translation and the Crisis of Relevancy in Japanese Studies, Jeffrey Angles Part III: Institutional Responses to the Field 12. The Many What-ifs of Literary Urbanism: A European Perspective, Gala Maria Follaco 13. The Problem of Scale in Japanese Literary Studies, John Whittier Treat 14. Signposts for the Non-Specialist: Thoughts on a Renewed View of the State of Modern Japanese Literary Studies, Christopher Lupke.