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Papers by Nina Cornyetz

Research paper thumbnail of Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers

Monumenta Nipponica, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of 血の束縛:円地文子の『女面』における女性の不浄、神性、そして連帯

Research paper thumbnail of 島田雅彦--バベルの塔からの逃走 (世界のなかの日本文学′90)

Research paper thumbnail of Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka

Journal of Japanese Studies, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Capitalism, Alienation, and Transgression in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction

Research paper thumbnail of 読解の新地平 行為する欲望--肉をテクスト化する、あるいは、(非)分節化された欲望 (特集 三島由紀夫--30年後の新たな地平)

Research paper thumbnail of 三島由紀夫--30年後の新たな地平 行為する欲望--三島由紀夫(2)ナルシシズムとサディズム--ホモファシズムとしての三島

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers

Routledge eBooks, Jul 27, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Penisular cartography Topology in Nakagami Kenji’s Kishu¯

Research paper thumbnail of PART II The politics of climate and community in Woman in the Dunes and "The idea of the desert

Research paper thumbnail of Perversion and Modern Japan

Introduction: Japan as Screen Memory: Psychoanalysis and History Nina Cornyetz 1. Speculations of... more Introduction: Japan as Screen Memory: Psychoanalysis and History Nina Cornyetz 1. Speculations of Murder: Ghostly Dreams, Poisonous Frogs, and the Return of Yokoi Shoichi Bruce Suttmeier 2. Japan's Lost Decade and Its Two Recoveries: On Sawaragi Noi, Japanese Neo-Pop and Anti-War Activism Carl Cassegard 3. The Corporeal Principle of the National Polity: The Rhetoric of the National Polity, or, the Nation as Memory Machine Yutaka Nagahara 4. Penuses/ Phallises: The Multiplication, Displacement and Appropriations of the Phallus Ayelet Zohar 5. Penisular Cartography: Topology in Nakagami Kenji's "Kishu" Nina Cornyetz 6. Two Ways to Play Fort-Da: With Freud and Tanizaki in Yoshino Margherita Long 7. The Double Scission of Mishima Yukio: Limits and Anxieties in the Autofictional Machine Gavin Walker 8. Navigating the Inner Sea: Utsumi Bunzo's Affects in Ukigumo Dawn Lawson 9. In the Flesh: The Historical Unconscious of Ishikawa Jun's "Fugen" Irena Hayt...

Research paper thumbnail of 13 Power and Gender in the Narratives of Yamada Eimi

Research paper thumbnail of Virgins and other little objects

Research paper thumbnail of Japan and Its Others: Globalization, Difference, and the Critique of Modernity

The Journal of Asian Studies, 2003

Page 1. 'LJtffc* Japan and Its Others John Clammer Page 2. JAPANESE ... more Page 1. 'LJtffc* Japan and Its Others John Clammer Page 2. JAPANESE SOCIETY SERIES General Editor: Yoshio Sugimoto Lives of Young Koreans in Japan Yasunori Fukuoka Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary ...

Research paper thumbnail of Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture. Edited by Nina Cornyetz and J. Keith Vincent. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. 338 pp. $145.00 (cloth)

The Journal of Asian Studies, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Queer Time in Summer Vacation 1999

A Companion to Japanese Cinema

The film Summer Vacation 1999, released in 1988 and directed by Kaneko Shusuke, is based on a bes... more The film Summer Vacation 1999, released in 1988 and directed by Kaneko Shusuke, is based on a bestselling manga, The Heart of Thomas (1974), by Moto Hagio, one of the first manga of the Yaoi genre. Yaoi manga in general depict adolescent boy love and are (primarily) written and consumed by girls and young women. 1 Accordingly, in the film the parts of four boys staying on at a boarding school over the summer break are played by girls as breech roles, speaking lines in "boys'" language, while retaining many "female" traits as well, resulting in decidedly androgynous performances. The boys are two upper classmen, Naoto (Nakano Miyuki) and Kazuhiko (Otakara Tomoko), a younger boy called Norio (Fukatsu Eri), and one boy who is first known as Yu (Miyajima Eri) and later, when he returns to the school after an apparent suicide, as Kaoru. Naoto and Yu are both in love with Kazuhiko. Norio is the odd boy out. The opening shots present the viewer with a series of impressionistic medium shots of a full moon, dark woods, and a mountain-scape as the evocative soundtrack-which pulsates with ambient sound-begins, and of a single school building surrounded by those woods at night. Alternating seamless cuts with extended tracking sequences, the camera traverses an empty hallway, cuts to a shot of white curtains billowing from a classroom's open windows, and tracks out to reveal the empty desks and chairs. An accelerated track shot ascends the stairs to the dormitory rooms on the second floor, then cuts to a medium shot of a lone boy, who later we learn is called Yu, seated at a desk with his back to the camera, writing a letter. There is a close up of a clock on the desk that reads a few minutes to midnight. The boy finishes his letter. He removes what looks like some sort of memory or battery card from the clock, stopping it. Slipping the letter under an adjacent dormitory room's door, and carrying a strangely antiquated looking lantern, the boy retraces in reverse order the path that the camera traversed entering the building and ascending the stairs. Just as the boy leaves the school building, a grandfather 17

Research paper thumbnail of 島田雅彦--バベルの塔からの逃走 (世界のなかの日本文学′90)

Research paper thumbnail of 血縁 : 円地文子の『女面』における女の不浄,神聖,コミュニティー

Research paper thumbnail of Oe and beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan

Journal of Japanese Studies, 2000

... In this conrext, howevet, it is inreresting to ohserve what Ann Shetif desctihes in Chap-rer ... more ... In this conrext, howevet, it is inreresting to ohserve what Ann Shetif desctihes in Chap-rer 12 as recent atremprs hy esrahlishment ctitics to recuperare Banana's shojo lirerature as "oppositional and utopian." As the houndaties shift and a new gen-eration assumes the cultural ...

Research paper thumbnail of Spirits of Another Sort, The Plays of Izumi Kyōka. By M. Cody Poulton. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies, 2000. xv, 346 pp. $49.95 (cloth)

The Journal of Asian Studies, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Dangerous Women, Deadly Words: Phallic Fantasy and Modernity in Three Japanese Writers

Monumenta Nipponica, 2000

Research paper thumbnail of 血の束縛:円地文子の『女面』における女性の不浄、神性、そして連帯

Research paper thumbnail of 島田雅彦--バベルの塔からの逃走 (世界のなかの日本文学′90)

Research paper thumbnail of Spirits of Another Sort: The Plays of Izumi Kyoka

Journal of Japanese Studies, 2002

Research paper thumbnail of Capitalism, Alienation, and Transgression in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction

Research paper thumbnail of 読解の新地平 行為する欲望--肉をテクスト化する、あるいは、(非)分節化された欲望 (特集 三島由紀夫--30年後の新たな地平)

Research paper thumbnail of 三島由紀夫--30年後の新たな地平 行為する欲望--三島由紀夫(2)ナルシシズムとサディズム--ホモファシズムとしての三島

Research paper thumbnail of Reading Desire in a New Generation of Japanese Women Writers

Routledge eBooks, Jul 27, 2023

Research paper thumbnail of Penisular cartography Topology in Nakagami Kenji’s Kishu¯

Research paper thumbnail of PART II The politics of climate and community in Woman in the Dunes and "The idea of the desert

Research paper thumbnail of Perversion and Modern Japan

Introduction: Japan as Screen Memory: Psychoanalysis and History Nina Cornyetz 1. Speculations of... more Introduction: Japan as Screen Memory: Psychoanalysis and History Nina Cornyetz 1. Speculations of Murder: Ghostly Dreams, Poisonous Frogs, and the Return of Yokoi Shoichi Bruce Suttmeier 2. Japan's Lost Decade and Its Two Recoveries: On Sawaragi Noi, Japanese Neo-Pop and Anti-War Activism Carl Cassegard 3. The Corporeal Principle of the National Polity: The Rhetoric of the National Polity, or, the Nation as Memory Machine Yutaka Nagahara 4. Penuses/ Phallises: The Multiplication, Displacement and Appropriations of the Phallus Ayelet Zohar 5. Penisular Cartography: Topology in Nakagami Kenji's "Kishu" Nina Cornyetz 6. Two Ways to Play Fort-Da: With Freud and Tanizaki in Yoshino Margherita Long 7. The Double Scission of Mishima Yukio: Limits and Anxieties in the Autofictional Machine Gavin Walker 8. Navigating the Inner Sea: Utsumi Bunzo's Affects in Ukigumo Dawn Lawson 9. In the Flesh: The Historical Unconscious of Ishikawa Jun's "Fugen" Irena Hayt...

Research paper thumbnail of 13 Power and Gender in the Narratives of Yamada Eimi

Research paper thumbnail of Virgins and other little objects

Research paper thumbnail of Japan and Its Others: Globalization, Difference, and the Critique of Modernity

The Journal of Asian Studies, 2003

Page 1. 'LJtffc* Japan and Its Others John Clammer Page 2. JAPANESE ... more Page 1. 'LJtffc* Japan and Its Others John Clammer Page 2. JAPANESE SOCIETY SERIES General Editor: Yoshio Sugimoto Lives of Young Koreans in Japan Yasunori Fukuoka Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary ...

Research paper thumbnail of Perversion and Modern Japan: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Culture. Edited by Nina Cornyetz and J. Keith Vincent. London and New York: Routledge, 2010. 338 pp. $145.00 (cloth)

The Journal of Asian Studies, 2011

Research paper thumbnail of Queer Time in Summer Vacation 1999

A Companion to Japanese Cinema

The film Summer Vacation 1999, released in 1988 and directed by Kaneko Shusuke, is based on a bes... more The film Summer Vacation 1999, released in 1988 and directed by Kaneko Shusuke, is based on a bestselling manga, The Heart of Thomas (1974), by Moto Hagio, one of the first manga of the Yaoi genre. Yaoi manga in general depict adolescent boy love and are (primarily) written and consumed by girls and young women. 1 Accordingly, in the film the parts of four boys staying on at a boarding school over the summer break are played by girls as breech roles, speaking lines in "boys'" language, while retaining many "female" traits as well, resulting in decidedly androgynous performances. The boys are two upper classmen, Naoto (Nakano Miyuki) and Kazuhiko (Otakara Tomoko), a younger boy called Norio (Fukatsu Eri), and one boy who is first known as Yu (Miyajima Eri) and later, when he returns to the school after an apparent suicide, as Kaoru. Naoto and Yu are both in love with Kazuhiko. Norio is the odd boy out. The opening shots present the viewer with a series of impressionistic medium shots of a full moon, dark woods, and a mountain-scape as the evocative soundtrack-which pulsates with ambient sound-begins, and of a single school building surrounded by those woods at night. Alternating seamless cuts with extended tracking sequences, the camera traverses an empty hallway, cuts to a shot of white curtains billowing from a classroom's open windows, and tracks out to reveal the empty desks and chairs. An accelerated track shot ascends the stairs to the dormitory rooms on the second floor, then cuts to a medium shot of a lone boy, who later we learn is called Yu, seated at a desk with his back to the camera, writing a letter. There is a close up of a clock on the desk that reads a few minutes to midnight. The boy finishes his letter. He removes what looks like some sort of memory or battery card from the clock, stopping it. Slipping the letter under an adjacent dormitory room's door, and carrying a strangely antiquated looking lantern, the boy retraces in reverse order the path that the camera traversed entering the building and ascending the stairs. Just as the boy leaves the school building, a grandfather 17

Research paper thumbnail of 島田雅彦--バベルの塔からの逃走 (世界のなかの日本文学′90)

Research paper thumbnail of 血縁 : 円地文子の『女面』における女の不浄,神聖,コミュニティー

Research paper thumbnail of Oe and beyond: Fiction in Contemporary Japan

Journal of Japanese Studies, 2000

... In this conrext, howevet, it is inreresting to ohserve what Ann Shetif desctihes in Chap-rer ... more ... In this conrext, howevet, it is inreresting to ohserve what Ann Shetif desctihes in Chap-rer 12 as recent atremprs hy esrahlishment ctitics to recuperare Banana's shojo lirerature as "oppositional and utopian." As the houndaties shift and a new gen-eration assumes the cultural ...

Research paper thumbnail of Spirits of Another Sort, The Plays of Izumi Kyōka. By M. Cody Poulton. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Center for Japanese Studies, 2000. xv, 346 pp. $49.95 (cloth)

The Journal of Asian Studies, 2002