プログラム Program

ＡＡＬＡ35 周年記念国際フォーラム
AALA 35th Anniversary International Forum「アジア系トランスボーダー文学と（ポスト・）コロニアリズム」――“Transborder Asian Literature and (Post-)Colonialism”――
日時(Dates)：２０２４年９月２１日（土）～２２日（日）<Sep.21-22, 2024>
会場(Venue)：神戸大学六甲台第２キャンパス 人文学研究科 B 棟 3 階Ｂ331 教室
Room B331, Humanities Building in Kobe University 2nd Rokkodai Campus-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------◇1 日目総合司会(The 1st Day Coordinator)：古木圭子 Keiko Furuki （奈良大学 Nara University）

第１日目 9 月２１日（土）Day One: September 21 (Saturday)※13:00～

受付（Registration）◇１４：００～１４：１５ 開会の辞 (Opening Speech)：
山本秀行 Hideyuki Yamamoto（AALA 会長 AALA President, 神戸大学 Kobe University）◇１４：１５～１７：３０ 基調講演（Keynote Lecture）：“Good Enough?: Shrugs, Indifference, and Disaffection in Minoritarian
Elliptical Lives”
講師(Lecturer)：Prof. Martin F. Manalansan IV (Rutgers University, USA)
特別ゲストコメンテーター(Special Guest Commentator)：
Prof. Allan Issac (Rutgers University, USA)
ディスカッサント(Discussant)： Lyle De Souza（Kyoto Notre Dame University）

司会(Chair)：牧野理英 Rie Makino（日本大学 Nihon University）
懇親会（Reception Dinner）◇１８：００～２０：００

神戸大学生協 LANS BOX１階食堂（Kobe U Coop LANS BOX 1st Floor Cafeteria）
司会(MC)：渡邊真理香 Marika Watanabe（北九州市立大学 The University of Kitakyushu）

第 2 日目9 月２2 日（日）Day Two: September 22 (Sunday)◇２日目総合司会 (The 2nd Day Coordinator)：渡邊真理香 Marika Watanabe[9:00～10:00

総会（会員のみ）General Meeting of AALA (only for members)]

司会(MC): Michiko Fukai◇１０：００～１２：００ 個人発表（Individual Presentations）:
・‟Tracing and Retracing: Exploring Identity and Memory in Summer of the Big Bachi”
Sophia H. Dickey (Ph.D. Student, Fukuoka Women’s University)
・‟A Cross-cultural Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro:1

Perspectives on “World Literature” in Chinese Literary Criticism”
XU Yiran（Peking University）
・“Heroines at School in the Works of J. Kogawa, J. W. Houston, and Y. K. Watkins”
Maiko Kato (Aoyama Gakuin University)

司会(Chair): 麻生享志 Takashi Aso (早稲田大学 Waseda University)◇１２：００～１３：００ ランチョン（Luncheon）：
人文学研究科 A 棟 1 階学生ホール（Students’ Hall on the 1st Floor of Humanities Building A）◇１３：００～１７：３０ 国際シンポジウム（International Symposium）：
・‟Performing the Floating Self in Bharati Mukherjee’s “A Wife’s Story””
Nathaniel H. Preston (Ritsumeikan University)
・‟Ghosts and Palimpsests: War and Translation in Gina Apostol’s Novels”
藤井光 氏 Prof. Hikaru Fujii（東京大学 The University of Tokyo)
・‟Post/Cold War Sentimentalism: On Taiwanese American Films about Return”
Prof. Chih-Ming Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
・“Hibakusha in Harlem: Anticolonialism, Antiracism, and Anti-Nuclearism”
松永京子 Kyoko Matsunaga（広島大学 Hiroshima University）
・“Murakami’s Kafkas: Postmodern, Psychoanalytic, Postcolonial”
Gayle K. Sato（Meiji University）
司会(Chair)： Nathaniel H. Preston
特別コメンテーター（Special Commentators）:
Prof. Martin F. Manalansan IV & Prof. Allan Issac◇１７：３０～１７：４０

閉会の辞(Closing Speech):

植木照代 Teruyo Ueki（AALA 初代代表 AALA Founding President）

主催：アジア系アメリカ文学会[Hosted by AALA—Asian American Literature Association inJapan]
共催：日本学術振興会・科学研究費・基盤研究（B）「「アジア系トランスボーダー文学」の包括的研究枠組創成と世界的研究ネットワーク構築」（研究課題番号 23K25310, 研究代表者：山本秀行, 2023～2025 年度）の助成を受けています。
[Co-sponsored by JSPS Grant-in-aid for Science Research (B), 2023-2025 (23K25310, principal
investigator: Hideyuki Yamamoto)]2

＜基調講演者紹介 A Brief Introduction to Keynote Lecturer＞
Dr. Martin F. Manalansan IV is Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Rutgers
University, New Brunswick. He previously taught at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Universityof Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, University of the Philippines, New York University, New School
University, and the City University of New York. Manalansan is the author of Global Divas: Filipino
Gay Men in the Diaspora (Duke University Press, 2003; Ateneo de Manila University Press, 2006). His
forthcoming book is entitled Queer Dwellings: Mess, Mesh, Measure. He is also the editor/co-editor offive anthologies and six journal special issues. His research topics include sexuality and gender, QueerStudies, migration, embodiment, affect, Asian American Studies, and Filipino Studies. He is President ofthe Association for Asian American Studies＜ 基 調 講 演 ・ 特別 ゲ ス ト コメ ン テ ー ター 紹 介 A Brief Introduction to Special Guest
Commentator for Keynote Lecture＞
Dr. Allan Punzalan Isaac is Professor of American Studies and English at Rutgers University-New
Brunswick, NJ. He specializes in Asian American and comparative race studies and examines issues
around migration, postcoloniality, gender and sexuality, and the Philippines and its diaspora. His firstbook American Tropics: Articulating Filipino America was the recipient of the Association for AsianAmerican Studies Cultural Studies Book Award. His second book is entitled, Filipino Time: Affective
Worlds and Contracted Labor. He has taught at DeLaSalle University-Taft in Manila, Philippines as aSenior Fulbright Scholar.

His current research focuses on death and the otherworldly in Filipino

diasporic visual culture.

＜個人発表要旨 Abstracts for Individual Presentations＞・‟Tracing and Retracing: Exploring Identity and Memory in Summer of the Big Bachi”
Sophia H. Dickey (Ph.D. Student, Fukuoka Women’s University)
This paper focuses on the characterization of Mas Arai, the protagonist of Summer of the Big Bachi(2004) by Naomi Hirahara (1962- ). Drawing on intersectional analyses, this paper explores the themes ofmemory and identity in the novel. Mas is a Kibei Nisei, or second-generation Japanese American who
was born in the U.S. and raised in Japan. He returns to the U.S. after surviving the atomic bombing ofHiroshima. Summer of the Big Bachi follows Mas in transnational landscapes as he works towards
solving the mystery of the supposed reappearance of his friend of the past. Although he is reluctant tolook back to his past, there is a certain drive within him that compels him to face it. While the novel isoften regarded as a mystery novel, it also handles Japanese American identities and histories in a mannerthat does not overpower the story. By examining the ways in which Mas articulates his inner conflictregarding his cultural ties to both the United States and Japan through his engagements with WWII
memories, this paper delves into the complexity of the protagonist’s sense of self and sense of place.

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・‟A Cross-cultural Reading of Kazuo Ishiguro:
Perspectives on “World Literature” in Chinese Literary Criticism”
XU Yiran（Peking University）
I examine Chinese literary criticism of Kazuo Ishiguro’s works, comparing it with its non-Chinesecounterpart. First, I explore key themes that Chinese scholars engage with by drawing upon data from
CNKI. I note a convergence in theoretical frameworks, particularly evident in a wide application of
postcolonialism and post-human theory. Additionally, shared thematic concerns such as identity formation,
trauma narrative, and unreliable narrator, reflect trends in both Chinese and non-Chinese scholarly
discourse.
Secondly, I highlight two distinctive features of Chinese criticism of Ishiguro’s fiction. Firstly,scholars demonstrate a heightened inclination towards exploring the interplay between literary texts andsocio-cultural contexts. Secondly, there is a pronounced thematic focus on war memory, responsibility,and post-conflict repercussions.
Finally, I discuss the cautious stance held by Chinese scholars towards the concept of “worldliterature.” This caution stems from the perceived conflict between the universality emphasized by theidea of world literature and the specificity emphasized in Chinese scholarly interpretations of Ishiguro’swritings. Notably, more overt resistance against the Western centric perspective can be observed inliterary criticisms in China. Instead, the idea of the “multi-origin genealogy”[多源点谱系] of world
literature is raised as an alternative approach.

・‟Heroines at School in the Works of J. Kogawa, J. W. Houston, and Y. K. Watkins”
Maiko Kato（Aoyama Gakuin University）
During the Internment, Nikkei children at school experienced sufferings derived from racial
discrimination in their communities. For this presentation, I chose Naomi’s Road by Joy Kogawa,Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, and So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko
Kawashima Watkins to analyze the styles how they proved themselves to be good citizens. Naomi in
Naomi’s Road forgave the bullying of Mitzi, a white girl, and they became good friends. Jeanne in
Farewell to Manzanar left school because of her father’s alcoholism, after she was selected as anoutstanding student. Likewise, Yoko in So Far from the Bamboo Grove came back to Japan from Korea,
was called “a stranger” and bullied by her classmates in high school in Sagano, Kyoto. As their parents,
these heroines Naomi, Jeanne, and Yoko were forced to show obedience and loyalty at school, theirfamily, and at the same time, to their home countries. They were taught “shikata ga nai,” enduring all theill treatments and trying to efface any “Japanese elements” from the eyes of white people.

I would liketo compare how the heroines of these Nikkei novels attempted to be “good” students through their“Japanese” ways that were inherited from their parents.

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＜国際シンポジウム発表要旨 Abstracts for Presentations at the International Symposium＞
・‟Performing the Floating Self in Bharati Mukherjee’s “A Wife’s Story””
Nathaniel H. Preston (Ritsumeikan University)
How are Indian people positioned in an economically and culturally globalized world? Bharati
Mukherjee’s 1988 short story “A Wife Story” explores this question through the eyes of Panna Bhatt, ahousewife who has left India to become a graduate student in New York City. The text uses the trope of“floating” to characterize Panna’s position between acceptance and othering, and it places her in several
scenes of performance to emphasize the relativity of these modes of belonging, neither perfectly defining
the immigrant experience. At the same time, Mukherjee refers to historical examples that subvert thecolonial dynamic between South Asia and the West in some way. One is Indian economic imperialism in
Uganda; another is Rajneeshpuram, an intentional community forming an Indian cultural space on US soil.
These small but significant assertions of Indian economic and cultural power complicate Panna’s position
within the global microcosm of New York and prevent her from indulging the luxury of unthinking
partisanship. While Panna thus dangles precariously between the poles of “perpetrator” and “victim,”
Mukherjee ultimately suggests that power-wielding can be replaced with an alternative ethic of charity, inwhich individual “floaters” can provide moments of consolation to each other without abandoning theirsubjectivity.
・‟Ghosts and Palimpsests: War and Translation in Gina Apostol’s Novels”
藤井光 氏 Prof. Hirkaru Fujii（東京大学 The University of Tokyo)
The work of Gina Apostol (1963-) has been accompanied by the notion of translation, which, in theFilipino woman writer’s view, touches on the essence of her national identity. In particular, her 2018
novel, Insurrecto, uses many metafictional devices to interrogate the multi-layered nature of the Filipinoidentity, which has been inseparable from the military, as well as cultural, presence of the U.S. The central
plot of an American filmmaker and her translator’s journey to Samar, where a large-scale massacre took
place during the Philippine-American War, is constructed as a “palimpsest” that traces decades of wars
and conflicts in the Asian region. At the same time, that the writer situates herself in the tradition ofFilipino English writing, with references to such writers as Nick Joaquin and Wilfrido D. Nolledo, callsfor a reading of her work as a sort of palimpsest through which the act of writing appears as inseparablefrom what Vicente L. Rafael calls “the war of translation.” In the context of Anglophone writing by Asian(and Asian American) writers of this century, Apostol’s writing is part of in the shared question of how thecontemporary writer, using the language of domination, can deal with memories of war and displacement
over the gap of generations and regions.
・‟Post/Cold War Sentimentalism: On Taiwanese American Films about Return”
Prof. Chih-Ming Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)

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The question of national literature in Asia is contiguous with the question of border and theaspiration for a postcolonial state. However, the decolonization movement of the 1940s and 1960s, atleast in Asia, did not fully unshackle Asian countries from the grips of Western colonialism andimperialism, as the Cold War in some ways hijacked the decolonization aspiration and made economic
promises and immigrant passages to the West to sustain Western hegemony.
Taiwan is a case in point in that it was successfully integrated into the US Cold War system ofanti-communism and has sustained itself in the geopolitical limbo as an in/dependent nation whose
postcolonial aspiration—in the form of independence movement—is carried on in its diasporiccommunities, particularly those in the US. This geopolitical condition makes Taiwanese American culturea unique transpacific formation that is on one hand deeply tied to the US Cold War design and especiallysensitive to and sentimental about the precarity of Taiwan on the other. A study of Taiwanese American’ssentimental fabulation of transpacific migration therefore can help foreground a post/Cold War
framework in Asian American literature to unsettle and complicate the post-1965 narrative, andunderscore the work of the sentimental as a mode of transpacific engagement with precarity and loss.

・“Hibakusha in Harlem: Anticolonialism, Antiracism, and Anti-Nuclearism”
松永京子 Kyoko Matsunaga（広島大学 Hiroshima University）
As scholars such as Vincent Intondi and Abby J. Kinchy point out, not a few prominent African
American writers and activists have voiced their anti-nuclear sentiments since the bombings of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki. In their discourse, they often associated the violence of the a-bombs with those of racismand colonialism. Malcolm X was no exception. On June 6, 1964, when Malcolm X met hibakusha
writers/journalists at the apartment of Yuri Kochiyama, a civil rights activist in Harlem, Malcolm X spoke
about the “scars” of hibakusha in relation to “scars” of racism in America. On another occasion,Malcolm X emphasized the connection between domestic racism and American imperialism abroad.
While hibakusha in Harlem could be understood as a historical moment where anticolonialism, antiracism,and anti-nuclearism intersect, it is not that simple. Later, Kochiyama recalls the event saying, “I don’t
think Malcolm was aware of Japan’s similarity to America in its racism and chauvinism—especiallyJapan’s treatment of Koreans.” As Kochiyama suggests here the parallel between the violence of theatomic bomb and that of racism or colonialism involves a risk of overlooking the colonial history of East
Asia. Using the (auto)biographies of Yuri Kochiyama, Malcolm X, and Barbara Reynolds (organizer ofthe Hiroshima-Nagasaki Peace Mission Study in 1964), this paper will examine the roles of hibakusha inthe discourse of activists/writers in the contexts of antinuclear movements, Civil Rights Movements, andanti-colonialism during the 1960s.
・“Murakami’s Kafkas: Postmodern, Psychoanalytic, Postcolonial”
Gayle K. Sato (Meiji University)

6Haruki Murakami’s novel, Kafka on the Shore (2002; English translation 2005; hereafter
abbreviated as Kafka), will be re-viewed through four interrelated questions: (1) What is Murakami doingin Kafka with references to Franz Kafka’s life and writings? (2) What is Murakami doing with Freud’sOedipus complex? And specificlly, are Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus (1972; English translation
1977) and Kafka: Toward A Minor Literature (1975; English translation 1986) helpful to answering thisquestion? (3) If the existence of a postcolonial element in Kafka is indisputable, since its plot involves theUS postwar occupation of Japan (1945~1952; 1945~1972) and Okinawa’s subaltern relationship to Japan(invasion of theRyukyu Kingdom by the Satsuma Domain in 1609; annexation as a prefecture of Japan

in 1879; the Battle of Okinawa in 1945; a 20-year delay in the end of America’s postwar occupation),what, precisely, are the politics of Kafka’s postcolonial narrative? (4) Does Kafka suggest a fourth
narrative that can be sufficiently distinguished as “transborder Kafka”? My hope is that these fourinterconnected questions will enable some conclusions about the continued relevance of Kafka in our time,presenting as it does multiple narratives about the normalization of warfare and brute power as legitimate,
preferred tools of civic governance.

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※フォーラムの詳細、参加（懇親会、ランチョンを含む）申込方法は別紙参照。詳しくは下記へお問い合わせください。なお、本フォーラムへの参加は無料ですが、懇親会、ランチョンはそれぞれ、5,000 円、1,000 円です（事前予約要）。
Please complete the registration form attached to this program and mail it to the AALA Office or e-mailthe information listed in the form to the Office. Although participation is free, the reception dinner costs
5,000 yen and the luncheon 1,000 yen per person, respectively. For more information on the Forum,please feel free to contact the AALA office listed below.

＜お問合せ先 Contact Information＞
アジア系アメリカ文学研究会事務局
AALA(Asian American Literature Association) Office：〒657-8501 神戸市灘区六甲台町 1-1 神戸大学人文学研究科

山本秀行研究室

c/o Hideyuki Yamamoto, Graduate School of Humanities, Kobe University, 657-8501, Japan
E-mail: aala.jp.office@gmail.com
AALA Website： http://aala-jp.com/

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