京都大学人文科学研究所

Table of Contents

Preface		i
Introduction		1

Panel 1: Japanese American Studies in the Rearview Mirror

1. Universalism and Particularism in Asian American Studies: Towards a Historiography	Lon Kurashige	21
2. Cultural Particularlism vs. Oppressors’ Universalism?: Comments on Kurashige’s Paper	Yasuko Takezawa	37

Panel 2: Migrating to and from Japan

3. Writing Between Two Nations: Okina Kyu(^)in `s Sokoku ni Kaeru Ki or A Record on Returning Home	Kristina Vassil	45
4. Once and Again: Japanese Americans Return to Japan Preliminary Findings	Art Nomura	53
5. Crossing National Boundaries and the Color Line: A Contrastive Study of Houston’s Tea with Ariyoshi’s Hishoku	Kyoto Nozaki	57

Panel 3: Conceptualizing ‘Race’ and ‘Community’ in the United States

6. Placing the Japanese Immigrant Community in the Time-Space of Early Twentieth-Century American West: The Nexus between the Japanese Association and the Local Economy	Hiroshi Yoneyama	67
7. Ethno-racial Formation of Japanese Immigrant Community in Los Angeles: A Sociological Perspective	Fuminori Minamikawa	79
8. Comments	Ryo Yoshida	79