[Sep 12] Literature of the Shōwa 40s through the Lens of “Border Crossing”: Movement, Ghosts, and Reincarnation

 

 

Literature of the Shōwa 40s through the Lens of “Border Crossing”: Movement, Ghosts, and Reincarnation

 

Date: September 12 (Sat), 2026, 13:00–17:00

Venue: GL Room, Building 140, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University

Organized by: SNU Research Group for Counter-Narratives and the Practice of the Humanities

Hosted by: Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University / The Association of Japanology in East Asia

 

Program

 

13:00–13:10 Opening Ceremony

 

Moderator: SEO Dong Ju (Seoul National University)

 

13:10–14:50 Part I. Featured Lecture

 

Moderator: LEE Gahyun (Hanbat National University)

 

Lecture: KITANI Makiko (Institute of Science Tokyo)

Mishima Yukio’s “Present”: Thailand in "The Sea of Fertility" and Okinawa in “Chinsetsu Yumiharizuki (椿説弓張月)"

Discussants: PARK Sujeong (Dong-A University) and SHAO Jinqi (National Institute of Technology, Numazu College)

 

14:50–15:00 Break

 

15:00–17:00 Part II. Research Presentations

 

Moderator: HWANG Ik-gu (Pukyong National University)

 

Presentation: HOGARI Motoo (Faculty of Education, Hirosaki University)

Ishikawa Jun’s Kyōfūki (狂風記) and “Reincarnation”: Ishikawa Jun in the 1970s

Discussant: JEONG Heejeong (The University of Tokyo)

 

Presentation: KOOK Seungmin (Doctoral Program, Graduate School, The University of Tokyo)

Postwar—or Postcolonial—Melancholia for the Forgotten “International Marriage”: Focusing on Nakazato Tsuneko’s “Spring in the Cemetery (墓地の春)” and “My Hermitage (わが庵)”

Discussant: KIM Wook (Seoul National University)