AALA Journal No.25

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