Atsuko Sakaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 3960067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Atsuko Sakaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Atsuko |
| FAMILY NAME | Sakaki |
| SIGNATURE | SAKAKI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3376-3699 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Juncture 2
Juncture 1
Best Friends for a While
It’s Not “I,” It’s “You”
Introduction
Conclusion
Traveling Alone on the Rails into the Future
Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory
Shapes of Friendship
This essay explores the formation and extension of friendship through a shared appreciation of literature and art. The center of attention is the writer, translator, and educator Horie Toshiyuki, who writes in exchange with or in honor of like-minded figures such as Usami Eiji and Suga Atsuko, both of whom also wrote, translated, and taught, thus mediating others' works. Within their network of friendship, others—Alberto Giacometti, Tsuji Makoto,…
Residual Futures
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…
Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature
Using close readings of a range of premodern and modern texts, Atsuko Sakaki focuses on the ways in which Japanese writers and readers revised-or in many cases devised-rhetoric to convey "Chineseness" and how this practice contributed to shaping a national Japanese identity. The volume begins by examining how Japanese travelers in China, and Chinese travelers in Japan, are portrayed in early literary works. An increasing awareness of the diversit…
Surfaces for Practices in Kanai Mieko's When Treading on Soft Earth
This article discusses a prose narrative rendition of haptic sensation felt across the cinematic screen in Kanai Mieko's novel Yawarakai tsuchi o funde, (When Treading on Soft Earth, 1997). The author, who laments the loss of multisensorial effects of film in video format in her essays, strategically engages videos in this narrative that is filled with instances of watching and remembering cinematic scenes while being interrupted by banal occurre…
Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, or photography as violence
This paper investigates Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's effective use of photography in his narratives from the 1930s to the 1960s to destabilize the perceived continuity and order of time and space in everyday life. By focusing not on the objects within the frame or any message encoded in the image but instead on the functions of the camera and the prints as material entities that are present in the environments occupied by photographer and spectator, Tan…
Scratch the surface, film the face
I expose the ambiguous relationship between the seduction of the surface and the obsession with the depth in the three versions of The Face of Another—the film, the screenplay, and the novel—by looking at functions and effects of the face, not to compare these registers but to see the way they cross-reference each other in order to form themselves. I first examine references to film in the novel and show how analogous film and the face are to eac…
Recontextualizing Texts
Kajin no Kigu
Performing Theory
Recontextualizing Texts
Dangerous Women, Deadly Words
Japanese Perceptions of China
Kajin no Kigu
Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, or photography as violence
This paper investigates Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's effective use of photography in his narratives from the 1930s to the 1960s to destabilize the perceived continuity and order of time and space in everyday life. By focusing not on the objects within the frame or any message encoded in the image but instead on the functions of the camera and the prints as material entities that are present in the environments occupied by photographer and spectator, Tan…
Japanese Perceptions of China
Recontextualizing Texts
Kajin no Kigu
Performing Theory
Recontextualizing Texts
Dangerous Women, Deadly Words
Scratch the surface, film the face
I expose the ambiguous relationship between the seduction of the surface and the obsession with the depth in the three versions of The Face of Another—the film, the screenplay, and the novel—by looking at functions and effects of the face, not to compare these registers but to see the way they cross-reference each other in order to form themselves. I first examine references to film in the novel and show how analogous film and the face are to eac…
Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, or photography as violence
This paper investigates Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's effective use of photography in his narratives from the 1930s to the 1960s to destabilize the perceived continuity and order of time and space in everyday life. By focusing not on the objects within the frame or any message encoded in the image but instead on the functions of the camera and the prints as material entities that are present in the environments occupied by photographer and spectator, Tan…
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…
Obsessions with the Sino-Japanese Polarity in Japanese Literature
Using close readings of a range of premodern and modern texts, Atsuko Sakaki focuses on the ways in which Japanese writers and readers revised-or in many cases devised-rhetoric to convey "Chineseness" and how this practice contributed to shaping a national Japanese identity. The volume begins by examining how Japanese travelers in China, and Chinese travelers in Japan, are portrayed in early literary works. An increasing awareness of the diversit…
Surfaces for Practices in Kanai Mieko's When Treading on Soft Earth
This article discusses a prose narrative rendition of haptic sensation felt across the cinematic screen in Kanai Mieko's novel Yawarakai tsuchi o funde, (When Treading on Soft Earth, 1997). The author, who laments the loss of multisensorial effects of film in video format in her essays, strategically engages videos in this narrative that is filled with instances of watching and remembering cinematic scenes while being interrupted by banal occurre…
Residual Futures
Shapes of Friendship
This essay explores the formation and extension of friendship through a shared appreciation of literature and art. The center of attention is the writer, translator, and educator Horie Toshiyuki, who writes in exchange with or in honor of like-minded figures such as Usami Eiji and Suga Atsuko, both of whom also wrote, translated, and taught, thus mediating others' works. Within their network of friendship, others—Alberto Giacometti, Tsuji Makoto,…
Juncture 2
Juncture 1
Best Friends for a While
It’s Not “I,” It’s “You”
Introduction
Conclusion
Traveling Alone on the Rails into the Future
Train Travel as Embodied Space-Time in Narrative Theory
Art (17 works) · Literature (12 works) · Aesthetics (11 works) · Narrative (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · History (10 works) · Japanese History and Culture (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works)