今年のアメリカ比較文学会は、オランダのユトレヒト大学で開催です。わたしは、７月８日（土）の午前に発表予定。作家はいかに「動物」と向き合うべきか、その問いかけをめぐって、ユダヤ系アメリカ文学と現代日本文学の実践を比較検討します。
Ecological awareness and the resulting critical consciousness can no longer be ignored. This panel examines that awareness and consciousness among artists working in Japan and the US. We will focus on writers and pay special attention to the ways that one’s private life often becomes the subject of representation. “Japan” is a starting point for many of the artists—by identity or geography, for example—that we will consider. The individual is, of course, already embedded in society; they are, in turn, embedded in a concrete topography and climate. They work in this closed system called the earth. In this seminar we will focus on works from the US and Japan to discuss the shared horizon of imagination vis-à-vis the natural global. A blurring of the boundaries separating the private life of the artist and the represented life of the character in contemporary works is one aspect we will address. The specter of the disasters associated with “Fukushima” is sure to be another. Human technology, economic activities, ways of life, wars and conflicts, large-scale accidents all play crucial roles within, and pushing against, the flow of natural processes. Authors such as Ōe Kenzaburo, Tsushima Yuko, Furukawa Hideo, Thomas Pynchon, Marilynne Robinson, and Ruth Ozeki are but some of the writers we will discuss.
Ecocritical Consciousness in Contemporary Literature and Arts: Trans-Pacific Perspective
Organizer(s):
Keijiro Suga, Meiji UniversityDouglas Slaymaker, University of Kentucky- Friday, July 7, 2017Stream A (8:30am - 10:15am)International Campus Utrecht SPINOZA, RM004
- Fukushima and the Catastropic Role of Literary Representation in Recent Works of Japanese Narrative FictionRei Magosaki, Chapman University
- Representing the Unrepresentable: Two Visual Artists Look at Disaster Akiko Takenaka, University of Kentucky
- What About Frogs? Kusano Shinpei's Bio/geo-poeticsKeijiro Suga, Meiji University
- Fukushima and the Catastropic Role of Literary Representation in Recent Works of Japanese Narrative Fiction
- Animal Voices After 3.11Douglas Slaymaker, University of Kentucky
- Naturally Selected by Humans: Furukawa Hideo and Jonathan Safran FoerKeita Hatooka, Meiji University
- Aqua Arachnean Politics in Abe Kobo’s Novel and Guattarian Ecosophy Toshiya Ueno, Wako University