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