AALA Journal No.30

Special Feature: 35th Anniversary Forum─“Transborder Asian Literature and (Post-) Colonialism”─
Poster, Program & Photos
Opening Speech by President (YAMAMOTO Hideyuki)
‹Keynote Lecture›
“Good Enough?” Shrugs, Indifference, and Disaffection in Minoritarian Elliptical Lives (Martin Manalansan IV)
‹Special Guest Commentator’s Response to Prof. Manalansan’s Keynote Lecture›
Dwelling on the Ellipsis (Allan Punzalan Isaac)
‹Response to Prof. Manalansan’s Keynote Lecture›
On the Messiness of Understanding Minoritarian Elliptical Lives (Lyle De Souza)
‹International Symposium: “Transborder Asian Literature and (Post-) Colonialism”›
Performance and the Floating Self in Bharati Mukherjee’s “A Wife’s Story” (Nathaniel Preston)
War, Translation, and the Double in Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto (2018) (FUJII Hikaru)
Post/Cold War Sentimentalism: On Taiwanese American Films about Return (Chih-ming Wang)
Hibakusha in Harlem: Anti-colonialism, Anti-racism, and Anti-nuclearism (MATSUNAGA Kyoko)
Murakami’s Kafkas: Postmodern, Psychoanalytic, Post/Colonial (Gayle K. Sato)

Article
Burning Memories: The Hibakusha Figure Reimagined in Juliet Kono’s Anshū: Dark Sorrow (Sophia H. Dickey)

Report on AALA’s Activities from April 2024 to March 2025
Information on AALA Membership
AALA Journal Submission Guidelines
Information on FSEL
2024 AALA Officers and Staff
Editors’ Note