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Associate Professor Roy StarrsProgramme Coordinator Room: Arts 3.S.12 Specialisation: Present Research Interests:
Recent Publications: Modernism and Japanese Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. (http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=360186) Hardcover and paperback editions.
ed., Politics and Religion in Modern Japan: Red Sun, White Lotus. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. (http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=385916)
ed., Rethinking Japanese Modernism. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011. (http://www.brill.nl/rethinking-japanese-modernism)
"Zen, Japan, and the Art of Democracy," in the New Statesman, July 4, 2011. Available online at: "Prince Shōtoku and Japan’s ‘China complex’". In Ji Fengyuan, Lin Jinghua, and Susan Bouterey (eds.), Cultural Interactions and Interpretations in a Global Age. Christchurch: Canterbury University Press, 2011, pp. 29-39. "Japanese Cultural Nationalism and Globalization in an Asia-Pacific Context," In James C. Baxter, ed., Globalization, Localization, and Japanese Studies in the Asia-Pacific Region. Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2010, pp. 3-18. "Shiga Naoya." In The Literary
Encyclopedia. http://www.litencyc.com/ (2010).
"Politics and Religion in Japan," in Religion Compass 3/4 (2009), pp. 752–769. (http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/religion/) "A Devil of a Job: Mishima and the Masochistic Drive," in Angelaki, Volume 14, Issue 3 December 2009 , pp. 85 - 99. (http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/09697250903407583) “Nashonarisuto toshite no Rafukadio Haan.” In Hirakawa Sukehiro, ed., Haan no hito to shuhen. Tokyo: Shinyosha, 2009, pp. 608-630. "Nietzschean Dialectics in the Novels of Mishima Yukio," in Nachtrichten (Hamburg). Review of Alan Tansman, The
Aesthetics of Japanese Fascism, in The
Journal of Japanese Studies, 37:1 (University of Washington, 2011), pp.
174-179.
Review of Neo-Nationalism in Europe and Beyond:
Perspectives from Social Anthropology, Andre Gingrich &
Marcus Banks (eds), in Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology, March 2007.
1. Books Japanese Cultural Nationalism: At Home and in the Asia Pacific, edited by Roy Starrs (Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2004)
Nations Under Siege: Globalization and Nationalism in Asia. edited by Roy Starrs, New York, Palgrave Macmillan (2002)
Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globalization. edited by Roy Starrs, Richmond, UK, Curzon Press (2001) 336p [ISBN 1-903350-03-4]
Soundings in Time: The Fictive Art of Kawabata Yasunari. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press and London, Curzon Press (1998) 280p [ISBN 1873410 74 3]
An Artless Art: The Zen Aesthetic of Shiga Naoya. London, Curzon (1998) 256p. [ISBN 1 873410 64 6]
Japan and Korea: Contemporary Studies. Co-editor with Bjarke Frellesvig, Aarhus, Aarhus University Press (1997) 320p. [ISBN 87 7288 689 7]
Cultural Encounters: China, Japan and the West. Co-editor with Søren Clausen and Ann Wedell-Wedellsborg, Aarhus, Aarhus University Press (1995) 496p. [ISBN 87 7288 497 5].
Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press and London, Curzon Press, 1994, 225p. [ISBN 1 87341 020 1]. Hardcover and paperback editions.
2. Book Chapters and Journal Articles "Yasunari Kawabata." In The Literary Encyclopedia. http://www.litencyc.com/ (2008). "Yukio Mishima." In The Literary Encyclopedia. http://www.litencyc.com/ (2008). "Ink Traces of the Dancing Calligraphers: Zen-ei Sho in Japan Today". In Henry Johnson and Jerry C. Jaffe, eds. Performing Japan: Contemporary Expressions of Cultural Identity London, Global Oriental and Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press (2007). "Lafcadio Hearn as Japanese Nationalist". In Nichibunken Japan Review (No. 18, 2006), pp.181-213. "The Kojiki as Japan's National Narrative," in Asian Futures, Asian Traditions, edited by Edwina Palmer (Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2005) "Shinto Versus Buddhism in the Late Work of Mishima Yukio" In Ken Henshall and Xiao Hong, Ethnic Identities and Linguistic Expressions: Languages, Literatures and Cultural Interaction in an Age of Globalization, Beijing: Peoples Press, 2006. "Naoya Shiga" In Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. New York/London: Thomson Gale (2006) 221-236. "The Road to Violent Action: Mishima Yukio," In Fascism: Critical Concepts in Political Science, volume 5 (Postwar Fascisms), edited by Roger Griffin with Matthew Feldman. London; New York: Routledge. (Part of the Routledge Major Work series.) (2004) 249-266. "Introduction." In Roy Starrs, ed. Japanese Cultural Nationalism: At Home and
in the Asia Pacific. London, Global Oriental and Honolulu: University of
Hawai’i Press (2004) pp. 1-19.
"Nation and
Region in the Work of Dazai Osamu." In Roy Starrs, ed. Japanese
Cultural Nationalism: At Home and in the Asia Pacific. London, Global
Oriental and Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press (2004) pp. 88-98.
"Japan," in Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era, edited by James Adams et al. Danbury, Conn: Grolier Academic Reference, 2004. "Naoya Shiga," in Reference Guide to World Literature, edited by Sara and Tom Pendergast. London; New York: St. James Press; 3rd edition, November 2002. "Japanese Literature as a Modern Invention." Review Article of Haruo Shirane and Tomi Suzuki, eds., Inventing
the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature, New Zealand
Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1 (June 2002) pp. 194-200.
"Between
Greece and India: Mishima as Cultural Pilgrim." In Nostalgic Journeys: Literary Pilgrimages
Between Japan and the West. Vancouver: U.B.C. Institute of Asian Research
(2001) pp. 67-78.
The Sea of Fertility as a National-Historical Novel." In Asian Nationalism in an Age of Globaliztion. Roy Starrs, ed. London, Curzon Press (2001) pp. 289-304.
The anti-narrative impulse in Kawabata and the renga." In Modulations in Tradition: Japan and Korea in a Changing World. M. Mervio ed. Tampere, Finland: University of Tampere Press (1993) pp. 1-13.
The
novelist as grand architect: Yukio Mishima’s Sea of
Fertility and Robertson Davies’ Deptford Trilogy." In Nature and Identity in Canadian and Japanese Literature.K. Tsuruta and T. Goosen eds. Toronto, University of Toronto - York University Joint
Centre for Asia Pacific Studies (1988) pp. 109-125.
"Idai naru sekkeisha toshite no shoosetsuka." In Sakura to kaede. K. Tsuruta and A. Asai eds. Tokyo: Bungei Hirobasha (1985) pp. 177-194.
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