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Professor

Department of Japanese and Chinese Languages and Literatures
(Japanese Language and Literature)

E-mail: narimoto[at]hiroshima-u.ac.jp

Modern and Contemporary Japanese Literature and Gender Criticism

• Modern Japanese Literature
• Gender Criticism
• Queer Theory
• MISHIMA Yukio
• OKADA Michiyo
• Theatre Resarch

My specialization is in modern Japanese literature. Using narrative and gender as a gateway while exploring fresh engagement and readings of the novels and plays of Yukio Mishima and modern female writers, I am committed to pursuing steady work that involves writing critical biographies of local writers, creating lists of works, etc.

• Yukio Misihima in the 21st Century, Kanrin Shobo, 2015. [Co-editer and co-author]
• Yukio Mishima: Narrative Power and Gender in ¡°Hojo-no-umi (The Sea of Fertility)¡±, Kanrin Shobo, 2010.
• Theatrical Literature and Gender Performativity: Yukio Mishima's Sotoba Komachi, Script as a Speech Act, The Journal of the Association for Narrative Studies, 14, pp.28-42, 2014.
• Fujitsuna Aoto's Cultural Image and ¡°Hadaka Gawa¡± (A New Version of Countries¡¯ Tales), Dazai Osamu Kenky?, 22, pp.53-63, 2014.
• Whose ¡°Story¡± Is It? : Tayama Katai¡¯s Futon (Quilt, 1907) and a Novel by Okada Michiyo, Modern Japanese Literature, 88, pp.33-48, 2013.