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Latest Books
『少年たちのアメリカ』(Boys' America: The Empire and Masculinities in Adolescent Literature)
『ねむり姫がめざめるとき---フェミニズム理論で児童文学を読む』(Waking Sleeping Beauty)
Bridges for the Young: The Fiction of Katherine Paterson
Touch the Earth
The Presence of the Past in Children's Literature
Children's Literature and the Fin De Siecle
『身体で読むファンタジー--フランケンシュタインからもののけ姫まで』
 (Decoding the Body in Fantasy Fictions: from Frankenstein to Princess Mononoke)
Expectations and Experiences: Children, Childhood & Children's Literature
『宇宙をかきみだす---思春期文学を読みとく』
 (Disturbing the Universe: Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature)
『新・家族さがしの旅--アメリカ児童・思春期文学』
『マイノリティは苦しみをのりこえて--アメリカ思春期文学をよむ』(Minority Children Overcoming Sufferings)

Selected Articles
"A Reconciliation with Asia, Female, and Other: Regeneration of Masculinity in Park's Quest"
"Uneasy Men in the Land of Oz"
"The Quest for Masculinity in The Chocolate War : Changing Conceptions of Masculinity in the
 1970s" Children's Literature"

"The 'Masculine Mystique' Revisioned in The Earthsea Quartet"
"Telling a New Narrative of American Adam and His Manhood in I Am the Cheese"
"A Search for a New Narrative of Manhood in Myers's Fallen Angels"
"Revitalizing Manhood in Tarzan of the Apes: Strategy of Having Mother 'Wilderness'."
newspaper article: 讀賣新聞記事 「米思春期文学と大統領選」Yomiuri Shinbun (Japanese)
"The Body, Pollution, and Danger in Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke " Adaptation as a
 Strategy of Children's Literature
, e-book, 2005. 
"Photographing the Almost-family in the Weetzie Bat Books"
"Abjection of Horror in Cynthia Kadohata's The Floating World"
"Constructing Cultural Memory beyond the Limits of Narrative in So Far from the Bamboo Grove"
"Constructing a New Community of Chronotope in Park's A Single Shard"
"Transcending Fear in Rosa Guy's The Friends: A Girl's Postcolonial Self-recognition"

 

       paintings by Setsuko Yoshida