The Journal №4 2005

The Journal of the American Literature

Society of Japan No.4

（SAL Cumulative No.42）（英文号）

page	CONTENTS
1	Masaomi KOBAYASHI	Steinbeck and Vegetarianism: An Ecocritical Perspective on The Grapes of Wrath
19	Kazuhiko YAMAGUCHI	Magic Realism, Two Hyper-Consumerisms, and the Diaspora Subject in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rain Forest
37	Koichiro YAMAUCHI	“Analytic Lyric?”: A Reading of Michael Palmer’s Poetry
57	Hikaru FUJI	Where the Tide Rises and Ebbs: Power Becoming, and “America” in Steve Erickson’s Rubicon Beach

page	Book Review
76	Susan PAVLOSKA	Etsuko TAKETANI, U.S. Women Writers and the Dicourses of Colonialism, 1825-1861

80	New Arrivals
96	ALSJ General Meeting Program and Symposia Proceedings
112	Forum: The Future of American Literary Scholarship in Japan