Margherita Long
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margherita Long |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margherita |
| FAMILY NAME | Long |
| SIGNATURE | LONG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Buffalo, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Humanism and the Hikari Event
This article tells the story of one reader’s search for an environmental humanities approach to the work of Ōe Kenzaburō. When the Fukushima Power Plant melted down in March 2011, Ōe had already been an antinuclear activist for almost fifty years. Yet the conviction that drove his opposition had always been humanist rather than environmental. Even after the disaster, he continued to address nuclear toxicity as a problem to be tackled with the pow…
On Being Worthy of the Event
This essay reads the testimonies of four Fukushima women interviewed by journalist Iwakami Yasumi in the summer and fall of 2011. At the time, mandatory evacuations had emptied the zones closest to the triple meltdowns, but people in surrounding areas were left to decide for themselves: should they stay at their ancestral homes, or flee to protect their bodies? These four women are inspiring as leaders and as activists because of their ability to…
Japan's 3.11 Nuclear Disaster and the State of Exception
This essay accompanies Katsuya Hirano's Interview with Kamanaka Hitomi, “Fukushima, Media, Democracy: The Promise of Documentary Film” Documentary filmmaker Kamanaka Hitomi's interview with historian Katsuya Hirano takes the post-Fukushima debate in a number of fresh directions. At the level of facts, Kamanaka draws from her vast knowledge of Japanese nuclear politics and the global nuclear industry to share developments that may startle even tho…
Fukushima, Media, Democracy
This interview is accompanied by Margherita R. Long's essay Japan's 3.11 Nuclear Disaster and the State of Exception: Notes on Kamanaka's Interview and Two Recent FilmsBorn in Toyama Prefecture, Kamanaka Hitomi entered Waseda University and joined her friends in a filmmaking club. Kamanaka won a scholarship from the Japanese government and spent time in Canada and the US between 1990 and 1995 studying at the National Film Board of Canada and work…
This Perversion Called Love
This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan's most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversion in Tanizaki's aesthetic essays, cultural criticism, cinema writings and short novels from the 1930s, it argues that Tanizaki understands human subjectivity in remarkably Freudian terms, but that he is much more critical than Freud about what it means for the pos…
Nakagami and the Denial of Lineage
margherita long is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages at the University of California, Riverside. Her published conversation on Nakagami with participants at the Shingû Seminar appeared in Waseda Bungaku 29.5 (November 2004): 22-53. She is currently completing a manuscript called This Perversion Called Love: Tanizaki, Freud, and Feminist Theory
Tanizaki and the Enjoyment of Japanese Culturalism
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 10, Number 2, Fall 2002
Takarazuka
Feminist Film Theory
margherita long is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her article "Tanizaki and the Enjoyment of Japanese Culturalism"appears in the fall 2002 issue of positions: east asia cultures critique. She is completing a book manuscript called Perversions of Intimacy: Tanizaki and the Sex of Prewar Japan
Dangerous Women, Deadly Words
Tanizaki and the Enjoyment of Japanese Culturalism
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 10, Number 2, Fall 2002
Dangerous Women, Deadly Words
Tanizaki and the Enjoyment of Japanese Culturalism
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 10, Number 2, Fall 2002
Takarazuka
Feminist Film Theory
margherita long is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her article "Tanizaki and the Enjoyment of Japanese Culturalism"appears in the fall 2002 issue of positions: east asia cultures critique. She is completing a book manuscript called Perversions of Intimacy: Tanizaki and the Sex of Prewar Japan
Nakagami and the Denial of Lineage
margherita long is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages at the University of California, Riverside. Her published conversation on Nakagami with participants at the Shingû Seminar appeared in Waseda Bungaku 29.5 (November 2004): 22-53. She is currently completing a manuscript called This Perversion Called Love: Tanizaki, Freud, and Feminist Theory
This Perversion Called Love
This Perversion Called Love positions one of Japan's most canonical and best translated 20th century authors at the center of contemporary debates in feminism. Examining sexual perversion in Tanizaki's aesthetic essays, cultural criticism, cinema writings and short novels from the 1930s, it argues that Tanizaki understands human subjectivity in remarkably Freudian terms, but that he is much more critical than Freud about what it means for the pos…
Japan's 3.11 Nuclear Disaster and the State of Exception
This essay accompanies Katsuya Hirano's Interview with Kamanaka Hitomi, “Fukushima, Media, Democracy: The Promise of Documentary Film” Documentary filmmaker Kamanaka Hitomi's interview with historian Katsuya Hirano takes the post-Fukushima debate in a number of fresh directions. At the level of facts, Kamanaka draws from her vast knowledge of Japanese nuclear politics and the global nuclear industry to share developments that may startle even tho…
Fukushima, Media, Democracy
This interview is accompanied by Margherita R. Long's essay Japan's 3.11 Nuclear Disaster and the State of Exception: Notes on Kamanaka's Interview and Two Recent FilmsBorn in Toyama Prefecture, Kamanaka Hitomi entered Waseda University and joined her friends in a filmmaking club. Kamanaka won a scholarship from the Japanese government and spent time in Canada and the US between 1990 and 1995 studying at the National Film Board of Canada and work…
On Being Worthy of the Event
This essay reads the testimonies of four Fukushima women interviewed by journalist Iwakami Yasumi in the summer and fall of 2011. At the time, mandatory evacuations had emptied the zones closest to the triple meltdowns, but people in surrounding areas were left to decide for themselves: should they stay at their ancestral homes, or flee to protect their bodies? These four women are inspiring as leaders and as activists because of their ability to…
Humanism and the Hikari Event
This article tells the story of one reader’s search for an environmental humanities approach to the work of Ōe Kenzaburō. When the Fukushima Power Plant melted down in March 2011, Ōe had already been an antinuclear activist for almost fifty years. Yet the conviction that drove his opposition had always been humanist rather than environmental. Even after the disaster, he continued to address nuclear toxicity as a problem to be tackled with the pow…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Japanese History and Culture (7 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)