Session Details

Friday, 28 December

185. Person and Persona, Subject and Subjectivity

8:30–9:45 a.m., Columbus A and B, Sheraton Chicago

Program arranged by the Division on East Asian Languages and Literatures to 1900

Presiding: Joseph Sorensen, Univ. of California, Davis

1. “Putting Words in His Mouth: The Nature of Akazome Emon’s Poetry,” Takeshi Watanabe, Connecticut Coll.

2. “Half Made Up; or, How Kengozen Told the Truth in Her Diary Tamakiwaru,” C. Miki Wheeler, Univ. of California, Berkeley

3. “Literary Irony and Nonliterary Personas in Late Medieval Japan,” David Spafford, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

Respondent: Joseph Sorensen

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