Texte der Ära Heisei: Lesungen zeitgenössischer japanischer Literatur / Texts of the Heisei Era: Readings of Contemporary Japanese Literature
The Department of Japanese Studies at Goethe-University Frankfurt is glad to host the international symposium „Texts of the Heisei Era – Readings of Contemporary Japanese Literature“ from June 6th to 7th. One month into "Reiwa", the symposium will look back at three decades of literary production marking the Heisei era. This "Heisei era literature" (Heisei bungaku, Urata Kenji 2015), began with the death of Emperor Hirohito (1901-1989) and the end of the Shôwa era in 1989, and has accompanied the decades to the then historic abdication of the Heisei-emperor Akihito on April 30 2019. Further, it will be interesting to ask what kind of literature will present itself on the outset of a new era of Japanese Zeitgeschichte. What topics and what approaches should researchers of Japanese literature choose?
With 15 presentations from international participants, from Japan, the US, the UK, France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, the symposium will cover a broad thematic spectrum ranging from literary remembrances of WW2 to more recent trends of the last Heisei decade, like Post-Fukushima texts, queer literature and ekkyô bungaku. We are looking forward to exciting discussions this June, combining the expertise from different science cultures, experienced scientists in the field of Japanese literature, as well as perspectives of a younger science generation.
The symposium is open to the public – if you want to participate as a guest please send a short mail to Heisei-Literatur@em.uni-frankfurt.de.
Organization: Prof. Dr. Lisette Gebhardt (Japanology Goethe University)
Program:
Thursday June 6th (The Eisenhower Room, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, Campus Westend)
Ursula Gräfe - Greeting
Christian Chappelow / Lisette Gebhardt - Opening Remarks
Michiko Mae (Düsseldorf) - Keynote: "What is the Heisei-Literature? New Tendencies in Japanese Literature of the Last Thirty Years"
Jeffrey Angles (Michigan) - "Nihon/go Literature Goes Global"
Christian Chappelow (Frankfurt) - "Japanese Ecopoetry of the Late Heisei Era"
Victoria Young (Cambridge) - "A Personal Resistance: Language and Intertexuality in Tōma Hiroko’s Poetry"
Friday June 7th (Juridicum Building, Room 717, Senckenberganlage 31, Campus Bockenheim)
Aylin Orbay (Frankfurt) - "The Permeable Borders of Literary Genre: Ekkyō bungaku"
Maren Haufs-Brusberg (Düsseldorf) - "Two Authors of Korean Japanese Literature in the Heisei Period: Sagisawa Megumu and Kaneshiro Kazuki"
Fujiwara Dan (Toulouse) - "The Challenges of Japanese-language Border-Crossing Literature: ‘Roji’ in Rībi Hideo’s Fictions"
Adam Greguš (Wien) - "The Oppressed Strike Back: Nakamura Fuminori’s Heisei existentialism of Suri and Ōkoku"
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Eva Bender (Frankfurt) - "Queer Literature Through the Heisei Era: Love on Holiday (1999) by Fujino Chiya"
Daniela Tan (Zürich) - "Transgression of Borders in the Works of Hiwa Satoko, Nakajima Kyôko and Miura Shion"
Yoshio Hitomi (Tokyo) - "Kawakami Mieko’s Writings as Post-3.11 Literature"
Filippo Cervelli (Durham) - "Save the Birds and You Will Save Yourself: Between Social Malaise, otaku and hikikomori in Abe Kazushige’s Nipponia Nippon"
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Anita Drexler (Wien) - "Healing Through Nostalgia: Sada Masashi and his Transmedia Storytelling in the Heisei Era"
Yuqi Chen (München) - "Remembrance of the Second World War in Texts of the Heisei Era"
David Jungmann (Frankfurt) - "Deconstructing Japan: Murakami Ryū as archetypical Author of the Heisei Era“
Jeffrey Angles / Christian Chappelow - Reading of Heisei Poetry