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Official Conference Proceedings ISSN:2186 - 2281 The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship Osaka, Japan 2014 Conference Proceedings 2014 ISSN – 2186-229X © The International Academic Forum 2014 The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Sakae 1-16-26-201 Naka Ward, Nagoya, Aichi Japan 460-0008 ww.iafor.org acah2014 librasia2014 “To Open Minds, To Educate Intelligence, To Inform Decisions” The International Academic Forum provides new perspectives to the thought-leaders and decision-makers of today and tomorrow by offering constructive environments for dialogue and interchange at the intersections of nation, culture, and discipline. Headquartered in Nagoya, Japan, and registered as a Non-Profit Organization 一般社( 団法人) , IAFOR is an independent think tank committed to the deeper understanding of contemporary geo-political transformation, particularly in the Asia Pacific Region. INTERNATIONAL INTERCULTURAL INTERDISCIPLINARY iafor The Executive Council of the International Advisory Board IAB Chair: Professor Stuart D.B. Picken IAB Vice-Chair: Professor Jerry Platt Mr Mitsumasa Aoyama Professor June Henton Professor Baden Offord Director, The Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Dean, College of Human Sciences, Auburn University, Professor of Cultural Studies and Human Rights & Co- USA Director of the Centre for Peace and Social Justice Professor David N Aspin Southern Cross University, Australia Professor Emeritus and Former Dean of the Faculty of Professor Michael Hudson Education, Monash University, Australia President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Professor Frank S. Ravitch Visiting Fellow, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge Economic Trends (ISLET) Professor of Law & Walter H. Stowers Chair in Law University, UK Distinguished Research Professor of Economics, The and Religion, Michigan State University College of Law University of Missouri, Kansas City Professor Don Brash Professor Richard Roth Former Governor of the Reserve Bank, New Zealand Professor Koichi Iwabuchi Senior Associate Dean, Medill School of Journalism, Former Leader of the New National Party, New Professor of Media and Cultural Studies & Director of Northwestern University, Qatar Zealand the Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia Adjunct Professor, AUT, New Zealand & La Trobe Professor Monty P. Satiadarma University, Australia Professor Sue Jackson Clinical Psychologist and Lecturer in Psychology & Professor of Lifelong Learning and Gender & Pro-Vice Former Dean of the Department of Psychology and Lord Charles Bruce Master of Teaching and Learning, Birkbeck, University Rector of the University, Tarumanugara University, Lord Lieutenant of Fife of London, UK Indonesia Chairman of the Patrons of the National Galleries of Scotland Professor Sing Kong Lee Mr Mohamed Salaheen Trustee of the Historic Scotland Foundation, UK Director, The National Institute of Education, Director, The United Nations World Food Programme, Singapore Japan & Korea Professor Judith Chapman Professor of Education, Australian Catholic University, Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd Mr Lowell Sheppard Australia Senior Scholar in Residence, The Needham Research Asia Pacific Director, HOPE International Visiting Fellow, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge Institute, Cambridge, UK Development Agency, Canada/Japan University, UK Fellow and Former Master, Darwin College, University Member of the Order of Australia of Cambridge His Excellency Dr Drago Stambuk Fellow of the British Academy Croatian Ambassador to Brazil, Brazil Professor Chung-Ying Cheng Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawai’i at Professor Keith Miller Professor Mary Stuart Manoa, USA Orthwein Endowed Professor for Lifelong Learning in Vice-Chancellor, The University of Lincoln, UK Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Chinese Philosophy the Science, University of Missouri-St.Louis, USA Professor Gary Swanson Professor Steve Cornwell Professor Kuniko Miyanaga Distinguished Journalist-in-Residence & Mildred S. Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies, Director, Human Potential Institute, Japan Hansen Endowed Chair, The University of Northern Osaka Jogakuin University, Osaka, Japan Fellow, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, USA Colorado, USA Osaka Local Conference Chair Professor Dennis McInerney Professor Jiro Takai Professor Michael A. Cusumano Chair Professor of Educational Psychology and Co- Secretary General of the Asian Association for Social SMR Distinguished Professor of Management Director of the Assessment Research Centre Psychology & Professor of Social Psychology and Engineering Systems, MIT Sloan School of The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong Graduate School of Education and Human Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SAR Development, Nagoya University, Japan USA Professor Ka Ho Joshua Mok Professor Svetlana Ter Minasova Professor Dexter Da Silva Chair Professor of Comparative Policy, Associate Vice- President of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Professor of Educational Psychology, Keisen University, President (External Relations) Area Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University Tokyo, Japan Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, The Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong SAR Professor Yozo Yokota Professor Georges Depeyrot Director of the Center for Human Rights Affairs, Japan Professor and Director of Research & Member of the Professor Michiko Nakano Former UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar Board of Trustees Professor of English & Director of the Distance French National Center for Scientific Research Learning Center, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan Professor Kensaku Yoshida (CNRS) & L’Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France Professor of English & Director of the Center for the Teaching of Foreign Languages in General Education, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan Susan Grider Montgomery, HEALTH COMES FIRST!!!, USA 0002 Requiem for a Beast: A Case Study in Controversy Erica Hateley, Queensland University of Technology, Australia p1-p13 0007 Developing Reading Culture for the Challenges of Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria Clement Ajidahun, Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria p13-p20 0037 The Recuperation of African History in African Fiction Nasreddin Bushra Ahmed, Al-Jouf University, Saudi Arabia p20-p29 0082 Challenges and Opportunities for Chinese Library to Face SCOAP3's Development Shuyi He, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Ren Wer, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China p29-p38 0104 Yearning for Identity through Magical realism: Female Protagonists of Girish Karnad Solomon P. Surendra Bondla, Jazan University, Saudi Arabia p38-p46 0112 FAULTLINES- A Journey Through Meena Alexander’s Life, Conflicts and Adjustments with the Host Society as a Result of Multiple Dislocations Anjana Sukumary, Mahidol University International College, Thailand p46-p57 0120 When The Whale Talks Back: An Interspecies Cultural Dialogue in Zakes Mda's The Whale Caller (2005) Weeraya Donsomsakulkij, University of Bayreuth, Germany p57-p71 0198 Unacknowledged Matricide in T. S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion Ken Chang, National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan p71-p76 0216 Mario Vargas Llosa’s Conversacion en la Catedral: A Paradigm of Corruption Adelaida Lucero, University of the Phillipines, Phillipines p76-p90 0277 Terrible Beauty: the Aesthetics of Death in Polish and Japanese War Literature Olga Bogdanska, University of Lodz, Poland p90-p99 0279 Considerations on Finnish and Romanian Literary and Cultural Relations within European Context Paul Nanu, University of Turku, Finland p99-p107 0297 The Effects of Emotion Regulation on the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Job Satisfaction of University Librarians: An Empirical Study in Taiwan Yu-Ping Peng, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan p107-p120 0298 Death Drive: Vampires in Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles Chi Tsai, National Normal Taiwan University, Taiwan p120-p127 0341 Cultural Colonization in Poems by Wallace Stevens Erik Thompson, The Catholic University of Korea, Korea p127-p137 0404 Conquering the Winds (Adeliberation on the Psychological Aspect of the Windcatchers, Decorative Elements in Loft harbor) Somayeh Noorinezhad, Payamenoor University, Iran Marziyeh Bagheriyannezhad, Payamenoor University, Iran Seyyedeh Roqieh Ghasemi, Payamenoor University, Iran p137-p155 0411 Game for None, Game for All: Verbal Contentions and Life Affirmation in De Turkey and De Law Jungman Park, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Korea p155-p163 0444 Protest Literature: Deconstruction of Antebellum Proslavery Ideology in Toni Morrison’s Beloved Ka Chi Cheuk, HKU SPACE Community College, Hong Kong p163-p174 0452 Feminism and the Nigerian Female Question: A Feminist Appraisal of Zaynab Alkali's Stillborn Harry Omilonye Ogbu, College of Education, Nigeria p174-p181 0455 The Potential of the Museum Collection Management Systems (MCMS) Development in Hong Kong Museum of History (HKMH) Elaine W.S. Kong, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Dickson K.W. Chiu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong Patrick Lo, University of Tsukuba, Japan p181-p196 0469 A Literary Antidote to Dignity-Based Conflict: J. M. Coetzee's Ethics of Natural - Rather than Public-Spiritedness Malek Mohammad, American University of Kuwait, Kuwait p196-p206 0488 Flood Management Handling in Malaysia and Indonesia Fachri Bey Jamaris, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia Maheran Makhtar, Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia p206-p216 0492 Challenging Childhoods: Representations of Conflict in Australian Junior Historical Fiction Since 1945 Kylie Flack, Macquarie University,