Review of Reviews: Contemporary Japanese Literature

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Review of Reviews Contemporary Japanese
Literature

• Gayle Hirohata Goto
• LIS 615, Collection Development
• Spring 2003

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Scope

• Translated Works
• Twentieth Century
• About Japan
• By Japanese Authors
• Mass Market Appeal

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Audience

• Hawaii Residents
• Hawaii State Public Library System
• Serves 1.2 million customers

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Methodology

• Browsing
• Stacks of Asia Collection
• Horizon
• Barnes Noble and Amazon
• Research
• Reference Books

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Reviewing Tools

• Print Reference Sources
• Book Review Index
• Book Review Digest
• Contemporary Authors
• Electronic Databases
• Expanded Academic
• OCLC First Search
• MLA International Bibliography
• Book Review Digest
• Library Literature

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Reviewing Tools (cont.)

• EBSCO Host
• Academic Search Premier
• ERIC
• JSTOR
• Bibliography of Asian Studies
• Literature Resource Center
• Journals
• Booklist
• Kirkus Reviews

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Reviewing Tools (cont.)

• Library Journal
• Publishers Weekly
• New York Times Book Review
• World Literature Today
• Journal of Japanese Studies
• The Japan Quarterly

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Reviewing Tools(cont.)

• Internet
• Amazon
• Barnes Noble
• Literary Marketplace
• Kodansha International
• Tuttle Publishing
• Random House Publishing
• Etc

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Issues

• Currency
• Delineation
• Inaccurate Reviews

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Selected Works

• The Mother of Dreams and Other Short Stories
  Portrayals of Women in Modern Japanese Fiction.
  Makoto Ueda, ed. New York Kodansha
  International. 1986. 279 pages
• Monkey Brain Sushi New Tastes in Japanese
  Fiction. Alfred Birnbaum, ed. New York Kodansha
  America. 1991. 306 pages
• Tanizaki, Junichiro. Quicksand. Howard Hibbett,
  trans. New York Knopf, 1995. 224 pages
• Murakami, Ryu. Coin Locker Babies. New York
  Kodansha International, 1995. 393 pages
• Oe, Kenzaburo. A Quiet Life. Kunioki Yanagishita
  and William Wetherall, trans. Weatherall, 1996.
  256 pages
• Tawada, Yoko. The Bridegroom Was A Dog. New York
  Kodansha America, 1998. 165 pages

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Selected Works (cont.)

• Miyabe, Miyuki. All She Was Worth. Alfred
  Birnbaum, trans. Mariner Books, 1999. 296 pages
• Nakajima, Kenji. The Cape And Other Stories from
  the Ghetto. Eve Zimmerman, trans. Stone Bridge
  Press, 1999. 192 pages
• Kawabata, Yasunari. First Snow on Fuji. Michael
  Emmerich, trans. Washington, D.C. Counterpoint,
  1999. 227 pages
• Yoshimura, Akira. On Parole. Stephen Snyder,
  trans. New York Harcourt Inc., 1999. 256 pages
• Murakami, Haruki. Sputnik Sweetheart. J. Phillip
  Gabriel, trans. New York Knopf, 2001. 210 pages
• Yoshimoto, Banana. Goodbye Tsugumi. Michael
  Emmerich, trans. New York Grove Press, 2002. 192
  pages

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The End

• Thank You.
• Questions gthiroha_at_hawaii.edu