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Yamane Lab
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A lab that reads how American literature came to be valued through the networks of people involved in publishing.
AboutAbout the lab
Publish and prosper!
The Yamane Lab studies American literature and American cultural history.
It focuses on the social networks surrounding people involved in publishing, such as authors, editors, and publishers.
The lab examines how those connections shaped whether American authors were judged favorably or poorly.
Literature of the American South, and Cold War culture and the practices of printing and publishing, are also research themes.
Key terms
- Social network
- The pattern of connections between people, showing who is linked to whom
- American cultural history
- A field that traces how the culture Americans have produced, such as literature and publishing, has changed over time
- Cold War
- The period after World War II when the world was divided into two opposing camps centered on the United States and the Soviet Union
ResearchResearch themes
The lab studies how social networks surrounding authors, editors, publishers, and others involved in publishing shaped the reputations, good and bad, of American authors. It also covers literature of the American South, Cold War culture, print culture, and translation studies.
*Illustrative imageCold War Translation and Masculinity
How did English-language magazines of the Cold War era translate and introduce works by writers such as Osamu Dazai and Yukio Mishima? By reading the anxieties about masculinity that appear in the translations and in the images of the authors, this theme explores how culture was tied to politics.
*Illustrative imageSouthern Literature in the Nuclear Age
How did Southern writers such as Faulkner and Welty write about the Cold War, an era of continuing nuclear arms race? By reading the sense of war and peace that appears in the language of novels and criticism, this theme considers the relationship between literature and its time.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorRyoichi YamanePublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “A Scene in a Library Plate VIII from The Pencil of Nature by William Henry Fox Talbot” William Henry Fox Talbot / Public domain (cropped)
- Cold War Translation and Masculinity: “Typewriter-12 hg” Hannes Grobe / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Southern Literature in the Nuclear Age: “Rowan Oak 1” RowanOak.jpg: Gary Bridgman derivative work: . . . . Jim . . . . Jameslwoodward (talk • contribs) / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
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