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Steve Rabson 
Summary
Steve Rabson (born May 7, 1943) is an American Japanologist, historian, translator, academic and professor emeritus of East Asian Studies at Brown University.[1]
Career edit
Rabson's research has focused on modern Japanese literature, especially works depicting war, its aftermath, and the experiences of women and minorities.[2] He is regarded as an expert on Okinawa, subject of several of his books, and has spoken of wartime rape there to the New York Times.[3] He is also a Japan Focus associate. As a U.S. Army draftee he was stationed in Okinawa in 1967-68.[1]
Selected works edit
In an overview of writings by and about Rabson, OCLC/WorldCat lists roughly 11 works in 17 publications in 2 languages and 360+ library holdings.[4]
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- The poetry of Kaneko Mitsuharu, 1979
- Okinawa : two postwar novellas by Tatsuhiro Oshiro, (Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1989, reprinted 1996)[1]
- Shimazaki Tōson on war, 1991
- Yosano Akiko on War : To Give One's Life or Not : A Question of Which War, April 1991[5]
- Righteous Cause or Tragic Folly: Changing Views of War in Modern Japanese Poetry, (Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan, 1998)[1]
- Southern exposure: modern Japanese literature from Okinawa, co-edited with Michael Molasky (University of Hawaii Press, 2000)[1]
- Edo senryū on waka and women, 2003
- The Okinawan Diaspora in Japan: Crossing the Borders Within (University of Hawaii Press, 2012)[1]
- Kpop Crash Course: Beyond Gangnam Style, Dr Steve Rabson with Alexandra Swords[6]
- Islands of Resistance: Japanese Literature from Okinawa, co-edited with Davinder Bhowmik (forthcoming from University of Hawaii Press, 2015)[1]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f g "Steve Rabson". JapanFocus. March 31, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2015.
- ^ Steve Rabson at Brown.edu; retrieved 2013-5-16.
- ^ Sims, Calvin (1 June 2000). "3 Dead Marines and a Secret of Wartime Okinawa". the New York Times. Nago, Japan. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ^ WorldCat Identities: Rabson, Steve; retrieved 2013-5-16.
- ^ Rabson, Steve (1991). "Yosano Akiko on War: To Give One's Life or Not: A Question of Which War". The Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese. 25 (1): 45–74. doi:10.2307/488910. JSTOR 488910.
- ^ Rabson, Steve; Swords, Alexandra. "Kpop Crash Course: Beyond Gangnam Style". Google Docs. Retrieved 8 December 2013.