THE JAPANESE JOURNAL
OF AMERICAN STUDIES
Number Fourteen (2003)
Images of 'America' in Conflict
CONTENTS
Editors
Presidents and Officers
Editor's Introduction
1
George J. Sanchez
Race and Immigration in Changing Communities of the United States
7
Kensaburo Shinkawa
A New Social Frame of Reference for American Studies
21
Konomi Ara
America-Homoglossic or Heteroglossic?
33
Fumiko Nishizaki
A Global Superpower or a Model of Democracy ?: Images of America in Post-Cold War Japan
49
Katsuaki Watanabe
Welcome to the Imploded Future: Don DeLillo's
Mao II
Reconsidered in the Light of September 11
69
Hisayo Kushida
Searching for Federal Aid: The Petitioning Activities of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company
87
Ayumu Kaneko
A Strong Man to Run a Race: W. E. B. DuBois and the Politics of Black Masculinity at the Turn of the Century
105
Yui Hatcho
The Atlantic Charter of 1941: A Political Tool of Non-belligerent America
123
English-Language Works by JAAS Members, 2001
141
Contributors
151