Jonathan E Abel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1375743 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan E Abel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan E |
| FAMILY NAME | Abel |
| SIGNATURE | ABEL J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9062-6861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The New Real
A synthetic history of new media reception in modern and contemporary Japan, *The New Real* positions mimesis at the heart of the media concept. Considering both mimicry and representation as the core functions of mediation and remediation, Jonathan E. Abel offers a new model for media studies while explaining the deep and ongoing imbrication of Japan in the history of new media. From stereoscopy in the late nineteenth century to emoji at the daw…
The Typographic Imagination
A tension runs through Nathan Shockey’s well-researched book of essays on the topic of the medial transition to print culture; it is this: does the value of print material lie within its semantic content or within its market value? Although at several points the book refers to this as a dialectic as though each side of the tension were in equal balance, ultimately Shockey is more concerned with the latter notion of books and print as media object…
Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan by Patrick W. Galbraith
Reviewed by: Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan by Patrick W. Galbraith Jonathan E. Abel (bio) Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan. By Patrick W. Galbraith. Duke University Press, Durham NC, 2019. x, 325 pages. $104.95, cloth; $27.95, paper; $27.95, E-book. Great scholarly books are often the most problematic because they engage in important debate-worthy issues; these contentious books force us to rethink our assumptions…
Freedom of Expression and Cultural Production in the Age of Vanishing Privacy
This chapter attempts to form a theoretical basis, informed by historical understanding, for linking rights discourse with developments in censorship studies in light of changes in social media. The study of literary censorship addresses is concerned about how the contents of literary material can impact individual readers and society as a whole and about how some of most fundamental human attributes are policed. There are two primary ways that t…
The Military Enlightenment
"The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon." History: Reviews of New Books, 46(5), p. 129
The Youth of Things
Reviewed by: The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojirō by Stephen Dodd Jonathan E. Abel (bio) The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojirō. By Stephen Dodd. University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu, 2014. xii, 286 pages. $57.00. Stephen Dodd’s The Youth of Things forces reflection on the state of Japanese literary studies in the English language, not because it is typical of work being done today or an exem…
The Utility of Aesthetics
42 Field Trip Jonathan E. Abel and Christopher Reed The Utility of Aesthetics: Exhibition, Pedagogy, and Critical Questions for Postcolonialism Any occasion involving the aesthetic or literary document and experience, on the one hand, and the critic’s role and his or her “worldliness,” on the other, cannot be a simple one. —Edward Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic Aesthetic experience, as Said (1983) knew well, is complicated. If we are t…
Of Asian Boxes
vii Editors’ Introduction Charlotte Eubanks and Jonathan E. Abel Of Asian Boxes... As a construct and product of powerful institutions from empires to nation-states, museums to universities, Asia has long been formulated at the level of the collection. Whether through royal court poets, colonial treasure hunters, art historians, bric-a-brac shopkeepers, or librarians of rare archives, the role of collecting and classification has been deeply conn…
Masked justice
I examine Gekkō Kamen (Moonlight Mask), one of the earliest postwar heroes, as a palimpsest of identity anxieties in postwar Japan. The turban-and-sunglass-wearing, motorcyclemounted, pistol-toting, shuriken-throwing hero dressed all in white drew as much on Captain America and Superman as it did on Japanese ninja stories and wartime hero stories, such as Golden Bat. Gekkō Kamen was also a template for a new kind of hero with a bike between his k…
Introduction
The aftershocks of the spring of 2011 in Japan led the nation into a paralysis of futureshock. But as the aftershocks continued and news of more radiation seeped out of the cracks in the tightly sealed industrial-political power generator, it became clear that the idea that the earthquake has brought a new reality to Japan must itself be resisted. Indeed what is now evident is that little has changed, despite renewed urgency to respond.Although t…
Redacted
What does censorship produce? Does censorship leave a trace? Where would we find it? How would we measure it? What would this trace capture and indicate about the censor? Redacted opens with these basic questions in order to examine one of the most thoroughly documented modes of literary reception—suppression. The extant archive of the Japanese imperial censor (1923–1945) and the archive of the occupation censor (1945–1952) stand as tangible remi…
Can Cool Japan save Post‐Disaster Japan? On the Possibilities and Impossibilities of a Cool Japanology
This article considers Cool Japan in light of catastrophe, first theoretically through a phenomenological analysis of Cool Japan and Cool Japanology, suggesting that the study of Cool Japan itself is way of uncooling the object of inquiry, itself a reaction to the apocalyptic realities of everyday life since the dawn of the modern world. The article finishes with a sociological reflection on current events through a détourner of the sekai kei gen…
Theero-purosense
This paper considers censorship as a major link between and impetus for two popular alternative literary categories in prewar Japan: erotic and proletarian literature. Through the figure of Umehara Hokumei (1901–46) who was banned under both of the censor's categories, this tracking of an ero-puro sense reveals how suppression of these two avenues for resistance led to the castration of a third – realistic portrayals of state violence
Canon and Censor
Research Article| January 01 2005 Canon and Censor: How War Wounds Bodies of Writing Jonathan E. Abel Jonathan E. Abel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (1): 74–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247461 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan E. Abel; Canon and Censor: How War Wounds Bodies of Writing. Comparative Literature Studies 1 January 20…
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Canon and Censor
Research Article| January 01 2005 Canon and Censor: How War Wounds Bodies of Writing Jonathan E. Abel Jonathan E. Abel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2005) 42 (1): 74–93. https://doi.org/10.2307/40247461 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jonathan E. Abel; Canon and Censor: How War Wounds Bodies of Writing. Comparative Literature Studies 1 January 20…
Theero-purosense
This paper considers censorship as a major link between and impetus for two popular alternative literary categories in prewar Japan: erotic and proletarian literature. Through the figure of Umehara Hokumei (1901–46) who was banned under both of the censor's categories, this tracking of an ero-puro sense reveals how suppression of these two avenues for resistance led to the castration of a third – realistic portrayals of state violence
Can Cool Japan save Post‐Disaster Japan? On the Possibilities and Impossibilities of a Cool Japanology
This article considers Cool Japan in light of catastrophe, first theoretically through a phenomenological analysis of Cool Japan and Cool Japanology, suggesting that the study of Cool Japan itself is way of uncooling the object of inquiry, itself a reaction to the apocalyptic realities of everyday life since the dawn of the modern world. The article finishes with a sociological reflection on current events through a détourner of the sekai kei gen…
Redacted
What does censorship produce? Does censorship leave a trace? Where would we find it? How would we measure it? What would this trace capture and indicate about the censor? Redacted opens with these basic questions in order to examine one of the most thoroughly documented modes of literary reception—suppression. The extant archive of the Japanese imperial censor (1923–1945) and the archive of the occupation censor (1945–1952) stand as tangible remi…
Masked justice
I examine Gekkō Kamen (Moonlight Mask), one of the earliest postwar heroes, as a palimpsest of identity anxieties in postwar Japan. The turban-and-sunglass-wearing, motorcyclemounted, pistol-toting, shuriken-throwing hero dressed all in white drew as much on Captain America and Superman as it did on Japanese ninja stories and wartime hero stories, such as Golden Bat. Gekkō Kamen was also a template for a new kind of hero with a bike between his k…
Introduction
The aftershocks of the spring of 2011 in Japan led the nation into a paralysis of futureshock. But as the aftershocks continued and news of more radiation seeped out of the cracks in the tightly sealed industrial-political power generator, it became clear that the idea that the earthquake has brought a new reality to Japan must itself be resisted. Indeed what is now evident is that little has changed, despite renewed urgency to respond.Although t…
The Utility of Aesthetics
42 Field Trip Jonathan E. Abel and Christopher Reed The Utility of Aesthetics: Exhibition, Pedagogy, and Critical Questions for Postcolonialism Any occasion involving the aesthetic or literary document and experience, on the one hand, and the critic’s role and his or her “worldliness,” on the other, cannot be a simple one. —Edward Said, The World, the Text, and the Critic Aesthetic experience, as Said (1983) knew well, is complicated. If we are t…
Of Asian Boxes
vii Editors’ Introduction Charlotte Eubanks and Jonathan E. Abel Of Asian Boxes... As a construct and product of powerful institutions from empires to nation-states, museums to universities, Asia has long been formulated at the level of the collection. Whether through royal court poets, colonial treasure hunters, art historians, bric-a-brac shopkeepers, or librarians of rare archives, the role of collecting and classification has been deeply conn…
The Youth of Things
Reviewed by: The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojirō by Stephen Dodd Jonathan E. Abel (bio) The Youth of Things: Life and Death in the Age of Kajii Motojirō. By Stephen Dodd. University of Hawai‘i Press, Honolulu, 2014. xii, 286 pages. $57.00. Stephen Dodd’s The Youth of Things forces reflection on the state of Japanese literary studies in the English language, not because it is typical of work being done today or an exem…
Freedom of Expression and Cultural Production in the Age of Vanishing Privacy
This chapter attempts to form a theoretical basis, informed by historical understanding, for linking rights discourse with developments in censorship studies in light of changes in social media. The study of literary censorship addresses is concerned about how the contents of literary material can impact individual readers and society as a whole and about how some of most fundamental human attributes are policed. There are two primary ways that t…
The Military Enlightenment
"The Military Enlightenment: War and Culture in the French Empire from Louis XIV to Napoleon." History: Reviews of New Books, 46(5), p. 129
The Typographic Imagination
A tension runs through Nathan Shockey’s well-researched book of essays on the topic of the medial transition to print culture; it is this: does the value of print material lie within its semantic content or within its market value? Although at several points the book refers to this as a dialectic as though each side of the tension were in equal balance, ultimately Shockey is more concerned with the latter notion of books and print as media object…
Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan by Patrick W. Galbraith
Reviewed by: Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan by Patrick W. Galbraith Jonathan E. Abel (bio) Otaku and the Struggle for Imagination in Japan. By Patrick W. Galbraith. Duke University Press, Durham NC, 2019. x, 325 pages. $104.95, cloth; $27.95, paper; $27.95, E-book. Great scholarly books are often the most problematic because they engage in important debate-worthy issues; these contentious books force us to rethink our assumptions…
The New Real
A synthetic history of new media reception in modern and contemporary Japan, *The New Real* positions mimesis at the heart of the media concept. Considering both mimicry and representation as the core functions of mediation and remediation, Jonathan E. Abel offers a new model for media studies while explaining the deep and ongoing imbrication of Japan in the history of new media. From stereoscopy in the late nineteenth century to emoji at the daw…
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