THE JAPANESE JOURNAL
OF AMERICAN STUDIES
Number Thirteen (2002)
Space: Real and Imagined
CONTENTS
Editors
Presidents and Officers
Editor's Introduction
1
Masashi Orishima
Immersed in Palpable Darkness: Republican Virtue and the Spatial Topography of Charles Brockden Brown's
Arthur Mervyn
7
Hiroshi Okayama
Analyzing 'Political Space' Two-Dimensionally: The Notion and Prospects of Interpolitical Relations
25
Noritaka Yagasaki
Spatial Organization of Japanese Immigrant Communities: Spontaneous Settlements and Planned Colonies in the Northern San Joaquin Valley, California
45
Fukuko Kobayashi
Producing Asian American Spaces: From Cultural Nation to the Space of Hybridity as Represented in Texts by Asian American Writers
63
Julia Leyda
Home on the Range: Space, Nation, and Mobility in John Ford's
The Searchers
83
Yoneyuki Sugita
Is the "Cyberspace Revolution" Really a Revolution? A Case Study: Healthcare and Modern Scientific Thought
107
Simon R. Potter
Another Closing Frontier?: Observations on Geography in American Academe
131
Mari Kotani
Across the Multiverse: How Do Aliens Travel from "Divisional" Space to "Network" Space?
157
Nahoko Tsuneyama
Americanization of Shakespeare: A Cultural History through Three Posters
171
Yuka Tsuchiya
Imagined America in Occupied Japan: (Re-)Educational Films Shown by the U.S. Occupation Forces to the Japanese, 1948-1952
193
English-Language Works by JAAS Members 2000
215
Contributors
225