Because the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been continuing to spread pretty much all over Japan, AALA has decided to cancel the meetings in May (in Nagoya) and July (in Tokyo) in order to prioritize the safety of our members. We are planning to introduce the special session for the individual presentations by the prospective speakers at the two meetings in the AALA Forum on September 26-27, 2020 in Kansai.
Please take good care of yourself by staying away from the coronavirus.
Special Feature: 30th Anniversary Forum―“Remapping Asian (American) Literature in the Framework of World Literature” Poster, Photos & Program Opening Speech (YAMAMOTO Hideyuki) <Keynote Lecture> Humans in a Nonhuman Future: Computation, Translation, and The Three-Body Problem (Wai Chee Dimock) <Special Guest Commentator’s Response to Keynote Lecture> The Advent of Asian Speculative Fiction in Response to Wai Chee Dimock’s Rereading of The Three-Body Problem (TATSUMI Takayuki) <Response to Keynote Lecture> ・Reading the Translations of The Three-Body Problems toward the Post-Anthropocene: Comments and Questions on Prof. Wai Chee Dimock’s Talk (MATSUNAGA Kyoko) ・Science, Imagination, and an Uncertain Future: A Response to Wai Chee Dimock’s “Humans in a Non-Human Future” (Nathaniel H. Preston) <International Symposium: “Remapping Asian (American) Literature in the Framework of World Literature”> ・“In the Mastery of the Fourth Dimension”: Yone Noguchi’s Style of Literary Adaptation in Gentō-romansu (1929) (UZAWA Yoshiko) ・Geopolitics of Relation: Talking to High Monks in the Snow and the Post/Cold War East Asia (Chih-ming Wang) ・Translingual Triangulation: Code-Switching, Translation, and Silence in Contemporary Canadian Nikkei Novels (Lyle De Souza) <Comments on the International Symposium> ・What Makes Asian (American) Literature World Literature: A Reader’s Response to Professor Chih-ming Wang’s “Poetics of Relation: Talking to High Monks in the Snow and Post/Cold War East Asia” and Professor Lyle De Souza’s “Tranlingual Triangulation: Code-Switching, Translation, and Silence in Contemporary Canadian Nikkei Novels” (Ki Yoon Jang) ・Asian American Intervention to World Literature: Claiming “Asia” and “America” in the World (MATSUMOTO Yuki) ・Comment on the papers by Lyle De Souza, Chih-ming Wang and Yoshiko Uzawa (Alina-Elena Anton)
Messages from the AALA Former Presidents ・“Footprints on the Sands of Time” in Commemoration of AALA’s 30th Anniversary (UEKI Teruyo) ・A Memoir of the Early Days of the Asian American Literature Association (HIHARA Mie) ・The Past and Future of the AALA (KOBAYASHI Fukuko)
Interview The “Love Bang!” Trilogy and the Returns of Art and Empire: An Interview with Việt Lê (ASO Takashi)
Research Notes Owning “Intangible Things”: Fiction and Trauma in Nina Revoy’s The Age of Dreamig (WATANABE Marika)
AALA Journal Back Issues Contents Report on AALA’s Activities from 2019 to 2020 Information on AALA Membership AALA Journal Submission Guidelines Editor’s Note
We regret to announce the cancellation of the 142nd meeting scheduled on March 7 in order to prioritize the safety of all participants due to the epidemic of COVID-19 in Japan. The presentation of the papers will be postponed to the meeting in May or later.
Contact: Prof. Hideyuki Yamamoto, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University E-mail: hdyamamo@lit.kobe-u.ac.jp Phone & FAX: (078)803-5543
Date and Time：3:00 pm – 6:00 pm on Saturday, 7th March, 2020 Venue : Room 2403, Building 2, College of Commerce, Nihon University
JSPS Kaken Project Special Session: “Transborder Japanese Literature”
Presentations: ・Hideyuki Yamamoto (Kobe University) “Haruki Murakami as “Transborder Japanese Literature”” ・Keiko Furuki (Kyoto University of Advanced Science ) “From Local to Global － Regionality and Immigration in Edward Sakamoto’s Drama”
