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ZAINICHI LITERATURE WORKSHOP

Herbert A. Roemmele '53 Global Commons

Williams Hall, Lehigh University

 

APRIL 21-22, 2017

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APRIL 21, 2017

 

10:00 a.m. Opening Remarks

Kiri Lee, Professor of Japanese, Chair of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Director of Asian Studies, Lehigh University

 

10:10 - Noon

Session 1: Change and Continuity Across the “August 1945” Divide

 

Andre Haag, “‘Good Korean’ or Race Traitor? Reorienting ‘Zainichi’ Writing from Futei Senjin to Sangokujin”

 

Jonathan Glade, “Fissuring Literary Boundaries: The Emergence of Zainichi Literature Under the US Military Occupation”

 

Christina Yi, “Postcolonial Legacies and the Divided ‘I’ in Occupation-Period Japan”

 

Yinan He, Discussant, Associate Professor of International Relations, Lehigh University

 

 

Noon - 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break (Faculty Dining Hall)

 

 

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Session 2: Transnationality, Intersectionality, Anti-Imperialism

 

Nathaniel Heneghan, “Digitizing Ethnic Identity—Gender and Performativity in Recent Zainichi Cinema” 

 

Nobuko Yamasaki, “A Zainichi Woman’s Body as a Battlefield”

 

Amardeep Singh, Discussant, Associate Professor of English, Lehigh University

 

 

3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break

 

3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Open Discussion

 

6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Dinner

 

 

 

APRIL 22, 2017

 

10:30 a.m.-Noon

Session 3: Cold War Culture and Literary Activism (in Japanese)

 

Koji Toba, “The Circle Movement in the 1950s and Its Imaginative Power in East Asia”

 

Shoya Unoda, “Cultural Activism by Zainichi Koreans in 1950s Japan: Between the Japanese Archipelago and the Korean Peninsula”

 

Hideto Tsuboi, Discussant, Professor of Japanese Literature, International Research Center for Japanese Studies　

 

Noon-1:30 p.m. Lunch Break (TBA)

 

 

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Session 4: Ideologies of Gender and Language in Literary Production

 

Cindi Textor, “The Place of Language, the Language of Place: Narrative Voice as Traveler-Translator in Yi Yangji's Yuhi”

 

Catherine Ryu, “Savoring the Apple: Gender, Desire, and Identity in Yi Yang-Ji’s Yuhi and Kim Ch’ang-Saeng’s ‘Akai mi’”

 

Taïeb Berrada, Discussant, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Lehigh University

 

 

3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break

 

 

3:30 - 5:00 p.m. Open Discussion

 

 

5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks

Nobuko Yamasaki, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Lehigh University, the Zainichi Literature Workshop Program Chair

 

 

6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Dinner