Ann Sherif
Biographic Data
| ID | 3787080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Sherif |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Sherif |
| SIGNATURE | SHERIF A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oberlin College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2043-5637 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tawada Yōko
Reviewed by: Tawada Yōko: On Writing and Rewriting ed. by Doug Slaymaker Ann Sherif (bio) Tawada Yōko: On Writing and Rewriting. Edited by Doug Slaymaker. Lexington Books, Lanham MD, 2020. xii, 283 pages. $115.00, cloth; $109.00, E-book. Murakami Haruki and Tawada Yōko enjoy international fame as literary writers who grew up and attended university in Japan and do translation work as well. Unlike Murakami, Tawada (b. 1960) writes in two languages…
Japan’s CCF Affiliate, Jiyû, and Covert Public Diplomacy
Sherif offers a groundbreaking history of the Japanese affiliate of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). The CCF pursued Japan because of its strategic position as a US Cold War ally. This chapter employs a range of archival materials in its analysis of three aspects of the CCF Japan journal Jiyû: the challenges for a originally transatlantic initiative in establishing an affiliate in the Pacific rim; the extent and reception of the post-1945…
The Father-Daughter Plot
This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as "daughters" in a culture that venerates "the father." They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and production of women's writing from the classical period to…
Book Histories, Material Culture, and East Asian Studies
35 Field Trip Ann Sherif Book Histories, Material Culture, and East Asian Studies “Not sure what they are. Some kind of old Chinese books maybe? Are you interested?” she asked uncertainly. Of course, I said yes. When the mysterious objects finally emerged from their dark space, I could see why even the librarian had struggled to identify them. It wasn’t just the lack of cataloging information or the unfamiliar script. Most confounding about these…
War Responsibility Revisited
For more than five decades after the end of the World War II, Japan articulated an official identity as a pacifist, anti-nuclear nation both domestically and in the international arena (its formidable Self Defense Force notwithstanding). Since the end of the Cold War and the first Gulf War in the early 1990s, however, the debate over revising Japan's "Peace Constitution" intensified. In particular, Article 9 of the Constitution, by which Japan re…
Japan's Cold War
Critics and cultural historians take Japan's postwar insularity for granted, rarely acknowledging the role of Cold War concerns in the shaping of Japanese society and culture. Nuclear anxiety, polarized ideologies, gendered tropes of nationhood, and new myths of progress, among other developments, profoundly transformed Japanese literature, criticism, and art during this era and fueled the country's desire to recast itself as a democratic nation …
The aesthetics of speed and the illogicality of politics
The mid-1950s literary debut of Ishihara Shintarō with his novel Season of the Sun (Taiyō no Kisetsu) marked a new interaction between Japanese mass culture and the historically dominant literary establishment. By skilfully mobilizing the emerging post-Occupation discourses of post-war film, literature, criticism and Cold War capitalist consumerism, Ishihara succeeded in creating a new emphasis on a youth culture divorced from the war responsibil…
Hot War/Cold War
To introduce this symposium on World War II in the Pacific, I reflect on the differences between this, the 60th anniversary, and the memorable 50th anniversary in 1995.First, we are well aware of the passing of many members of generations who, as adults, experienced the protracted wars of the 1930s and 1940s. 60th anniversary commemorative practices are marked by this awareness. At the site of the German surrender in Holland, for example, the mar…
"Japan Through the Eyes of a "Quasi-Refugee
I first became aware of the relevance of the idea of refugee to my own life when I read Ghassan Kanafani's writing in the late 1970s. Kanafani (b. 1936), a Palestinian refugee, was a spokesman for the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1972 he was assassinated in Beirut by a car bomb. Kanafani's work, which appeared first in Japanese and then in Korean translation, also played an important role in the South Korean pro-democ…
The Politics of Loss
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2002
Fictions of Desire
Mirror
Mirror
Koda Aya (1904-1990) did not publish until she was 43 years old. Her short stories, novels and essays, insightfully exploring women's lives, the family and traditional culture, were welcomed by readers, and her elegant, mature style was lauded by critics. In this text, Ann Sherif discusses the life and work of Koda in light of changes in critical horizons, readerly communities and especially constructions of gender and the family in the latter ha…
An Artless Art
The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction
The Writings of Koda Aya, a Japanese Literary Daughter
The Sound of the Wind
A remarkable volume from one of Japan's most important literary characters. Chiyo is recognized as one of the pioneers of feminism in Japan as well as a fine storyteller. The first half of this book describes her struggle for equality in a traditional society, the second is a collection of her best stories
The aesthetics of speed and the illogicality of politics
The mid-1950s literary debut of Ishihara Shintarō with his novel Season of the Sun (Taiyō no Kisetsu) marked a new interaction between Japanese mass culture and the historically dominant literary establishment. By skilfully mobilizing the emerging post-Occupation discourses of post-war film, literature, criticism and Cold War capitalist consumerism, Ishihara succeeded in creating a new emphasis on a youth culture divorced from the war responsibil…
The Politics of Loss
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2002
The Sound of the Wind
A remarkable volume from one of Japan's most important literary characters. Chiyo is recognized as one of the pioneers of feminism in Japan as well as a fine storyteller. The first half of this book describes her struggle for equality in a traditional society, the second is a collection of her best stories
The Writings of Koda Aya, a Japanese Literary Daughter
The Dilemma of the Modern in Japanese Fiction
An Artless Art
Mirror
Mirror
Koda Aya (1904-1990) did not publish until she was 43 years old. Her short stories, novels and essays, insightfully exploring women's lives, the family and traditional culture, were welcomed by readers, and her elegant, mature style was lauded by critics. In this text, Ann Sherif discusses the life and work of Koda in light of changes in critical horizons, readerly communities and especially constructions of gender and the family in the latter ha…
The Politics of Loss
positions: east asia cultures critique - Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2002
Fictions of Desire
"Japan Through the Eyes of a "Quasi-Refugee
I first became aware of the relevance of the idea of refugee to my own life when I read Ghassan Kanafani's writing in the late 1970s. Kanafani (b. 1936), a Palestinian refugee, was a spokesman for the People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In 1972 he was assassinated in Beirut by a car bomb. Kanafani's work, which appeared first in Japanese and then in Korean translation, also played an important role in the South Korean pro-democ…
The aesthetics of speed and the illogicality of politics
The mid-1950s literary debut of Ishihara Shintarō with his novel Season of the Sun (Taiyō no Kisetsu) marked a new interaction between Japanese mass culture and the historically dominant literary establishment. By skilfully mobilizing the emerging post-Occupation discourses of post-war film, literature, criticism and Cold War capitalist consumerism, Ishihara succeeded in creating a new emphasis on a youth culture divorced from the war responsibil…
Hot War/Cold War
To introduce this symposium on World War II in the Pacific, I reflect on the differences between this, the 60th anniversary, and the memorable 50th anniversary in 1995.First, we are well aware of the passing of many members of generations who, as adults, experienced the protracted wars of the 1930s and 1940s. 60th anniversary commemorative practices are marked by this awareness. At the site of the German surrender in Holland, for example, the mar…
Japan's Cold War
Critics and cultural historians take Japan's postwar insularity for granted, rarely acknowledging the role of Cold War concerns in the shaping of Japanese society and culture. Nuclear anxiety, polarized ideologies, gendered tropes of nationhood, and new myths of progress, among other developments, profoundly transformed Japanese literature, criticism, and art during this era and fueled the country's desire to recast itself as a democratic nation …
War Responsibility Revisited
For more than five decades after the end of the World War II, Japan articulated an official identity as a pacifist, anti-nuclear nation both domestically and in the international arena (its formidable Self Defense Force notwithstanding). Since the end of the Cold War and the first Gulf War in the early 1990s, however, the debate over revising Japan's "Peace Constitution" intensified. In particular, Article 9 of the Constitution, by which Japan re…
Japan’s CCF Affiliate, Jiyû, and Covert Public Diplomacy
Sherif offers a groundbreaking history of the Japanese affiliate of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). The CCF pursued Japan because of its strategic position as a US Cold War ally. This chapter employs a range of archival materials in its analysis of three aspects of the CCF Japan journal Jiyû: the challenges for a originally transatlantic initiative in establishing an affiliate in the Pacific rim; the extent and reception of the post-1945…
The Father-Daughter Plot
This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese female literary experience. Its contributors examine the ways in which women have been placed politically, ideologically, and symbolically as "daughters" in a culture that venerates "the father." They weigh the impact that this daughterly position has had on both the performance and production of women's writing from the classical period to…
Book Histories, Material Culture, and East Asian Studies
35 Field Trip Ann Sherif Book Histories, Material Culture, and East Asian Studies “Not sure what they are. Some kind of old Chinese books maybe? Are you interested?” she asked uncertainly. Of course, I said yes. When the mysterious objects finally emerged from their dark space, I could see why even the librarian had struggled to identify them. It wasn’t just the lack of cataloging information or the unfamiliar script. Most confounding about these…
Tawada Yōko
Reviewed by: Tawada Yōko: On Writing and Rewriting ed. by Doug Slaymaker Ann Sherif (bio) Tawada Yōko: On Writing and Rewriting. Edited by Doug Slaymaker. Lexington Books, Lanham MD, 2020. xii, 283 pages. $115.00, cloth; $109.00, E-book. Murakami Haruki and Tawada Yōko enjoy international fame as literary writers who grew up and attended university in Japan and do translation work as well. Unlike Murakami, Tawada (b. 1960) writes in two languages…
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