Bibliography · Selected record
Principal bibliography
Selected publications across American literary studies, criticism, fiction, and the art of Japanese recitation.
English titles are editorial translations unless an established English title can be confirmed.
Scholarship, criticism, and recitation
1978
『今日のアメリカ作家群像』
Contemporary American Writers
Studies of contemporary American writers including Kurt Vonnegut, Donald Barthelme, and Bernard Malamud.
Shigeo Hamano, author
1984
『ユダヤ系アメリカ文学の出発』
The Origins of Jewish American Literature
A study of the formation of Jewish American literature from the Old World through the era of immigration.
Shigeo Hamano, author
1989
『アメリカ文学と時代変貌』
American Literature and Historical Change
An interdisciplinary study of American literature in periods of historical change.
Shigeo Hamano, editor
1995
『アメリカの対抗文化』
American Counterculture
A cultural study of civil rights, antiwar movements, minority questions, and the counterculture of the 1960s.
Japan Malamud Society, editor
2002
『日本語朗読の楽しみ』
The Pleasure of Japanese Recitation
An exploration of how the spoken voice opens Japanese poetry and prose, from Romantic verse to modern fiction.
Seishu Hamano, author
Read poetry, explore recitation →2002
『日米映像文学は戦争をどう見たか』
How Japanese and American Screen Literature Viewed War
A jointly edited volume comparing representations of war in Japanese and American film and screen narratives.
Supervised by Tadatoshi Saito; edited by Shigeo Hamano and others
Fiction and short stories
2001
『父の宿』
Father’s Lodgings
Short fiction reflecting on family and a father’s solitude.
Seishu Hamano, author
2001
『別れる季節』
A Season of Parting
Stories of changing seasons, meetings, and partings.
Seishu Hamano, author
2001
『若者よ明日香の国は』
Young People, the Land of Asuka
Fiction about the generation shaped by the 1960 protests against the U.S.–Japan Security Treaty.
Seishu Hamano, author
2001
『かまぐれ』
Kamagure
A story of a woman’s inner conflict as she inherits her family’s pottery practice.
Seishu Hamano, author
2001
『心は孤独な旅人』
The Heart Is a Solitary Traveler
Stories tracing a journey through Kawachi, Tokyo, and the United States.
Seishu Hamano, author
2003
『日朝、もし戦えば』
If Japan and North Korea Went to War
A novel depicting the machinery of war and human psychology through a family caught in a near-future conflict.
Seishu Hamano, author
2004
『愚劣少年法』
The Folly of Juvenile Law
A social and psychological novel about the suffering of a crime victim and a lawyer.
Seishu Hamano, author
2006
『日本の、次の戦争』
Japan’s Next War
A cautionary novel imagining Japan and the international order after constitutional revision.
Seishu Hamano, author
2012
『ビーライフ！：白亜館物語』
Bīraifu! A Tale of Hakua-kan University
A novel examining institutional distortions within university life and society.
Seishu Hamano, author