PMJS Publication Announcement: October 2021
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Abigail MacBain
Oct 3, 2021, 10:11:31 PM10/3/21
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Dear colleagues,
Below please find our monthly bulletin compiling information on the publications by (or recommended by) PMJS members. All details below were submitted through the PMJS Publication Announcements online form.
1. Publication type: Book
Title: Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives
Author: Sachi Schmidt-Hori
Affiliation: Dartmouth College
Summary: In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received a premier education in Buddhist scriptures, poetry, music, and dance. When the boys reached adolescence, some underwent coming-of-age rites, others entered the priesthood, and several extended their education, becoming chigo, or Buddhist acolytes. Chigo served their masters as personal attendants and as sexual partners. During religious ceremonies—adorned in colorful robes, their faces made up and hair styled in long ponytails—they entertained local donors and pilgrims with music and dance. Stories of acolytes (chigo monogatari) from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries form the basis of the present volume, an original and detailed literary analysis of six tales coupled with a thorough examination of the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural matrices that produced these texts.
Release Date: June 2021
Website:https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/tales-of-idolized-boys-male-male-love-in-medieval-japanese-buddhist-narratives/
Contact: sachi.sch...@dartmouth.edu
Other info: N/A
2. Publication type: Book
Title: Kanbunmyaku The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature
Author: Christina Laffin
Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Summary: In Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, Saito Mareshi demonstrates the centrality of Literary Sinitic poetry and prose in the creation of modern literary Japanese. Saito’s new understanding of the role of “ kanbunmyaku” in the formation of Japanese literary modernity challenges dominant narratives tied to translations from modern Western literatures and problematizes the antagonism between Literary Sinitic and Japanese in the modern academy. Saito shows how kundoku (vernacular reading) and its rhythms were central to the rise of new inscriptional styles, charts the changing relationship of modern poets and novelists to kanbunmyaku, and concludes that the chronotope of modern Japan was based in a language world supported by the Literary Sinitic Context.
Release Date: 2021 (ebook); 2020 (hardback)
Website: https://brill.com/view/title/36105
Contact: christin...@ubc.ca
Other Info: Author: Mareshi Saito
Editors: Ross King and Christina Laffin
Translators: Sean Bussell, Matthieu Felt, Alexey Lushchenko, Caleb Park, Si Nae Park, Scott Wells
A thread on the process behind the book:
https://twitter.com/ChristinaLaffin/status/1373476734637502470
3. Publication type: Book
Title: 万葉集の散文学―新元号「令和」の間テクスト性 Man'yōshū no sanbungaku : Shingengō "Reiwa" no kantekusutosei
Author: Loren Waller
Affiliation: Yale University; Aoyama Gakuin Daigaku
Summary: Section 1 is a record of a symposium held at the University of Kochi with Man’yōshū scholar Makoto Ueno about the “sources” of Japan’s new era name “Reiwa.” Section 2 develops that discussion with papers on the application of textual theory, on the reception of the Wen Xuan in Japan, and on political and intellectual thought surrounding era names.
Release Date: June 2021
Website: https://www.musashinoshoin.co.jp/shoseki/view/2782
Contact: in...@musashinoshoin.co.jp
Other info: N/A
4. Publication type: Article
Title: “The Erotic Family: Structures and Narratives of Milk Kinship in Premodern Japanese Tales.”
Journal: The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 80, No. 3, p. 663-681
Author: Sachi Schmidt-Hori
Affiliation: Dartmouth College
Summary: This essay proposes that “milk kinship,” which upper-class individuals in premodern Japan formed with their milk kin—a menoto (wet nurse) and a menotogo (foster sibling)—occupies the core of an institutionalized erotic fosterage. In this “menoto system,” the surrogate mother's lactating body and erotic-affective labor became the connective tissue to bind two interclass families, creating a symbiosis that fortified the existing sociopolitical power structures. Around the tenth century, many vernacular tales started to feature menoto characters. While a typical menoto is the protagonist's homely, asexual, motherly confidante, her derivative construct—the menotogo of the protagonist—is often cast in an erotic light. In the four texts examined in this essay, menotogo valorize their erotic agencies to benefit their charges through sexual-affective labor or through an indirect method. The latter entails the formation of a “love square” in which two menotogo become lovers and then help their respective charges do the same.
Release Date: August 2021
Website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies/latest-issue
Contact: sachi.sch...@dartmouth.edu
Other info: N/A
To recommend a title for the November announcement, please fill out the online form no later than October 20. Please note that the wording and format of the form have been recently updated in response to feedback from the community.
For any questions or comments on the submission format, please contact Abigail MacBain (aim...@columbia.edu) and/or Tariq Sheikh (tariq...@outlook.in).
Below please find our monthly bulletin compiling information on the publications by (or recommended by) PMJS members. All details below were submitted through the PMJS Publication Announcements online form.
1. Publication type: Book
Title: Tales of Idolized Boys: Male-Male Love in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives
Author: Sachi Schmidt-Hori
Affiliation: Dartmouth College
Summary: In medieval Japan (14th–16th centuries), it was customary for elite families to entrust their young sons to the care of renowned Buddhist priests from whom they received a premier education in Buddhist scriptures, poetry, music, and dance. When the boys reached adolescence, some underwent coming-of-age rites, others entered the priesthood, and several extended their education, becoming chigo, or Buddhist acolytes. Chigo served their masters as personal attendants and as sexual partners. During religious ceremonies—adorned in colorful robes, their faces made up and hair styled in long ponytails—they entertained local donors and pilgrims with music and dance. Stories of acolytes (chigo monogatari) from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries form the basis of the present volume, an original and detailed literary analysis of six tales coupled with a thorough examination of the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural matrices that produced these texts.
Release Date: June 2021
Website:https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/tales-of-idolized-boys-male-male-love-in-medieval-japanese-buddhist-narratives/
Contact: sachi.sch...@dartmouth.edu
Other info: N/A
2. Publication type: Book
Title: Kanbunmyaku The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature
Author: Christina Laffin
Affiliation: University of British Columbia
Summary: In Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, Saito Mareshi demonstrates the centrality of Literary Sinitic poetry and prose in the creation of modern literary Japanese. Saito’s new understanding of the role of “ kanbunmyaku” in the formation of Japanese literary modernity challenges dominant narratives tied to translations from modern Western literatures and problematizes the antagonism between Literary Sinitic and Japanese in the modern academy. Saito shows how kundoku (vernacular reading) and its rhythms were central to the rise of new inscriptional styles, charts the changing relationship of modern poets and novelists to kanbunmyaku, and concludes that the chronotope of modern Japan was based in a language world supported by the Literary Sinitic Context.
Release Date: 2021 (ebook); 2020 (hardback)
Website: https://brill.com/view/title/36105
Contact: christin...@ubc.ca
Other Info: Author: Mareshi Saito
Editors: Ross King and Christina Laffin
Translators: Sean Bussell, Matthieu Felt, Alexey Lushchenko, Caleb Park, Si Nae Park, Scott Wells
A thread on the process behind the book:
https://twitter.com/ChristinaLaffin/status/1373476734637502470
3. Publication type: Book
Title: 万葉集の散文学―新元号「令和」の間テクスト性 Man'yōshū no sanbungaku : Shingengō "Reiwa" no kantekusutosei
Author: Loren Waller
Affiliation: Yale University; Aoyama Gakuin Daigaku
Summary: Section 1 is a record of a symposium held at the University of Kochi with Man’yōshū scholar Makoto Ueno about the “sources” of Japan’s new era name “Reiwa.” Section 2 develops that discussion with papers on the application of textual theory, on the reception of the Wen Xuan in Japan, and on political and intellectual thought surrounding era names.
Release Date: June 2021
Website: https://www.musashinoshoin.co.jp/shoseki/view/2782
Contact: in...@musashinoshoin.co.jp
Other info: N/A
4. Publication type: Article
Title: “The Erotic Family: Structures and Narratives of Milk Kinship in Premodern Japanese Tales.”
Journal: The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 80, No. 3, p. 663-681
Author: Sachi Schmidt-Hori
Affiliation: Dartmouth College
Summary: This essay proposes that “milk kinship,” which upper-class individuals in premodern Japan formed with their milk kin—a menoto (wet nurse) and a menotogo (foster sibling)—occupies the core of an institutionalized erotic fosterage. In this “menoto system,” the surrogate mother's lactating body and erotic-affective labor became the connective tissue to bind two interclass families, creating a symbiosis that fortified the existing sociopolitical power structures. Around the tenth century, many vernacular tales started to feature menoto characters. While a typical menoto is the protagonist's homely, asexual, motherly confidante, her derivative construct—the menotogo of the protagonist—is often cast in an erotic light. In the four texts examined in this essay, menotogo valorize their erotic agencies to benefit their charges through sexual-affective labor or through an indirect method. The latter entails the formation of a “love square” in which two menotogo become lovers and then help their respective charges do the same.
Release Date: August 2021
Website: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies/latest-issue
Contact: sachi.sch...@dartmouth.edu
Other info: N/A
To recommend a title for the November announcement, please fill out the online form no later than October 20. Please note that the wording and format of the form have been recently updated in response to feedback from the community.
For any questions or comments on the submission format, please contact Abigail MacBain (aim...@columbia.edu) and/or Tariq Sheikh (tariq...@outlook.in).
Abigail I. MacBain
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Lecturer
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Lecturer
East Asian Languages & Cultures
Columbia University
aim...@columbia.edu
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