Yoshiya Nobuko Research

A selection of my research on author Yoshiya Nobuko (1896-1973)

• Profile piece in “The Brink” about Yoshiya Nobuko.
• “The Leisure of Girls and Mothers: Affective Labor, Leisure, and Taste in the Transnational and Transmedia Adaptations of Stella Dallas,” in Rudolf G. Wagner, Cathy Yeh, Eugenio Menegon, and Robert Welller eds. Testing the Margins of Leisure. Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality, 2019. 
• Translation of 黄薔薇 Yellow Rose is available in ebook format. Please see the publisher’s site (Expanded Editions). You may also contact them for the publisher for queries about library purchases. Also available directly from Amazon.com
• “The Travels of a Japanese “Girl” Yoshiya Nobuko’s 1928 World Tour.” in Roberta Micallef ed. Illusions and Disillusionment: Travel Writing in the Modern Age. ILEX/Harvard University Press, 2018.
• “Not That Innocent: Yoshiya Nobuko’s Good Girls,” in Jan Bardsley and Laura Miller eds., Bad Girls of Japan, Palgrave, 2005. WorldCat Entry.
• “Women of the Setting Sun and Men from the Moon: Yoshiya Nobuko’s Ataka Family as Post-war Romance.” U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal English Supplement No 23 (2003), 10-38. JSTOR Stable URL