Ecocriticism Review
No. 1
2008
CONTENTS
A Foreword ITOH Shoko -------------------------------- 1
Workshop
(2007 Conference of the American Literature Society of Japan)
“The Post-Carson Era and the Literature of
Environmental Justice”
Introduction
YOKOTA Yuri -------------------------------- 3
From Silent Spring to Fruit of the Orchard ASAI Chiaki
----------------------------------- 4
An Ecocritical
Reading of the “Literature of Disaster” ― Urban Problems
and Environmental Justice in the Post-Katrina Era
NAKAGAKI Kotaro ------------------------ 6
Native Americans and Environmental Justice YOKOTA Yuri -------------------------------
10
Environmental Activism / Chicana Literature
/ Environmental Justice
MATSUNAGA Kyoko --------------------- 8
Guest Contribution NAGAOKA Shingo ------------------------13
Adopted Children Disappearing into a Mystery Novel:
Interpretations of and Fictionality in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer
Articles
Anaya, A Chicano Writer, Four Seasons and the Literatures of the Americas
MIZUNO Atsuko
-------------------------- 23
The
Eagles and Ecology
FUKUYA Toshinobu ---------------------- 33
Ideas
and Music in KENJI OZAWA’s Ecology of
Everyday Life
SHIOTA Hiroshi ----------------------------
38
Reading Workshop
Tropic
of Orange ( Karen Tei Yamashita, 1997) YOSHIDA
Mitsu ---------------------------- 43
White Noise (Don DeLillo, 1985) OSHIMA Yukiko ------------------------------
49
All Over Creation (Ruth Ozeki, 2003) MATSUNAGA Kyoko ---------------------- 56
Series: Ecocriticism Masterpieces
Lawrence Buell. Writing for an Endangered World MIURA Shoko
---------------------65
William Cronon, ed. Uncommon
Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature
KIDO Mitsuyo --------------------- 70
International Conference Report
Seventh Biennial Conference of the
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
ASAI Chiaki --------------------------- 75
Western Literature Association 42nd Conference MATSUNAGA
Kyoko -------------- 76
Reports on the Annual Meetings (19th, 20th, 21st) ------------------------------------------------------
77
Manuscript Submission
Editor’s Postscript
Ecocriticism Review
No. 2
2009
CONTENTS
A Foreword ITOH Shoko
Guest Contribution
Touching (and Touched by) Jeffers's Rock Slovic
Scott.
Articles
Reassessing the Nevada Test
Site………………KISHINO
Hidemi
Thoreau and Skolimowski----Conceptual Consideration in the Eco-Cosmology …MOURI Ritsuko Mysticism in John
Steinbeck's The Pearl-----
Nakashima Michiko
Reading Workshop
New
Perspectives on Environmental Justice; Gender, Sexuality, and Activism-----Asai
Chiaki
So Far from God-----Matsunaga Kyoko
Shades of the Planet: American Literature as
World Literature-----MANO Go
International
Conference Report
Fifthe Environmental Writer’s Conference-----Asai Chiaki
Western Literature Association 43 rd Conference-----MATSUNAGA
Kyoko