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- Conference Programme -
Texts of the Heisei Era
Readings of Contemporary Japanese Literature
June 6th - 7th 2019
- Conference Organization -
Lisette Gebhardt, Christian Chappelow, David Jungmann
Japanologie
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Senckenberganlage 31
D-60325 Frankfurt am Main
Telephone: +49(0)69 798 23287
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E-Mail: paulat@em.uni-frankfurt.de
www.japanologie.uni-frankfurt.de
Layout, cover, artwork: David Jungmann | Original Artwork: „Der Aufbruch“ (2014) by Takamatsu ManamiGreeting | Grußwort
T he year 2019 marks the end of an era, an era
which has prolifically produced literary texts.
We are extremely honoured to greet the most
interesting group of international scholars who
will share with us their distinctive views on various
exciting topics and concepts – reaching from
border crossing literature to Heisei existentialism.
Let them inspire us to think in new ways about
the Japanese literature of the past thirty years.
Welcome to Frankfurt!
Ursula Gräfe
Translator
I n Japan hat vor wenigen Wochen ein neues Zeitalter
begonnen. Wie ließe sich ein solch spektakulärer
Neuanfang angemessener feiern als mit einer
Tagung über die literarische Vielfalt der vergangenen
dreißig Jahre? Sechzehn Wissenschaftler aus sieben
Ländern werden uns in einer Vielzahl von Vorträgen
ein breites und originelles Spektrum neuerer
Forschungsperspektiven zu Gehör bringen, die sich
von der traditionellen Frage nach der Fremdheit
japanischer Literatur gelöst haben. „Nihon/go
Literature Goes Global“ lautet das Motto.
Als Literatur-Übersetzerin und Absolventin
der Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität freue ich
mich besonders auf diese einmalige Gelegenheit.
Ursula Gräfe
Übersetzerin
2Short Introduction: Texts of the Heisei Era
T he Institute of Japanese Studies at Goethe
University Frankfurt is glad to host the
International conference „Texts of the Heisei Era
One key question remains central throughout
our discussions: What defines Heisei literature? The
way we respond depends substantially on the science
– Readings of Contemporary Japanese Literature“ culture we were socialized in - or the one we want to
from June 6th to 7th. commit to - as well as the way we understand our
One month into Reiwa, the conference will role as researchers of Japanese literature.
look back at three decades of literary production The Frankfurt meeting of researchers from
marking the Heisei Era. In 15 presentations we Japan, the USA, England, France, Italy, Switzerland,
will look at ‘classical’ authors such as Murakami Austria and Germany offers the opportunity to
Ryū and Kawakami Mieko, the former ‘J-bungaku’ discuss this vital topics – which would certainly
representative Abe Kazushige, or typical Heisei- be desirable in the current global situation of
writers such as Nakamura Fuminori, Miura encroaching collectivism and the rejection of
Shion and Hiwa Satoko. Special fields (e.g. ekkyō intellectuality and linguistic refinement.
bungaku, post-3.11 literature) and special issues
(the sociological interest with its hikikomori-
protagonists) will also be addressed, as well as the Lisette Gebhardt
so-called queer literature. Head of Literature and Culture Studies, Goethe University
Zur Einführung: Texte der Ära Heisei
D as Institut für Japanologie an der Goethe-
Universität freut sich, vom 6. bis 7. Juni die
Internationale Tagung „Texte der Ära Heisei –
Leitfrage der Tagung: Was macht die Heisei-
Literatur aus? Wie wir diese beantworten werden,
hängt zu einem großen Teil davon ab, in welcher
Lesungen zeitgenössischer japanischer Literatur“ in Wissenschaftstradition wir sozialisiert wurden bzw.
Frankfurt auszurichten. Einen Monat nach Beginn welcher wir uns verpflichten wollen und wie wir
der Reiwa-Zeit, möchte die Veranstaltung auf drei unsere Rolle als Forscher der japanischen Literatur
Dekaden literarischer Produktion der Heisei- verstehen.
Epoche zurückblicken. Die Frankfurter Zusammenkunft von
In 15 Beiträgen möchten wir „klassische“ Forschern und Forscherinnen aus Japan, den
Autoren dieser Periode wie z.B. Murakami Ryū und USA, England, Frankreich, Italien, der Schweiz,
Kawakami Mieko betrachten oder einen früheren Österreich und Deutschland bietet Gelegenheit,
Vertreter der J-Bungaku wie Abe Kazushige, zudem sich auch über diese Themen auszutauschen –
typische Heisei-Autoren wie Nakamura Fuminori, was sicher wünschenswert wäre in der aktuellen
Miura Shion und Hiwa Satoko. Spezialbereiche globalen Situation der Sprachfeindlichkeit und
(etwa ekkyō bungaku, post-3.11 Literatur, ‚queere Kollektivisierung.
Literatur‘) sowie Sonderthemen (die soziologische
Wende mit ihrem Fokus auf problematische Sozio-
typen = hikikomori) sind Gegenstand des Interesses. Lisette Gebhardt
Zu diskutieren bleibt sicher immer die Fachvertreterin Japanologie an der Goethe Universität
3Conference Programme | Tagungsprogramm
Thursday, June 6th 2019
The Eisenhower Room, Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1, Campus Westend
15:30 - 15:45 Ursula Gräfe Greeting | Grußwort
Lisette Gebhardt,
David Jungmann,
15:45 - 16:00 Christian Chappelow Opening Remarks | Zur Eröffnung
Keynote
„What is the Heisei-Literature? New Tendencies in
16:00 - 16:45 Michiko Mae Japanese Literature of the Last Thirty Years“
Presentations | Vorträge
16:45 - 17:30 Jeffrey Angles „Nihon/go Literature Goes Global“
17:30 - 18:15 Christian Chappelow „Japanese Ecopoetry of the Late Heisei Era“
„A Personal Resistance: Language and Intertexuality in
18:15 - 19:00 Victoria Young Tōma Hiroko’s Poetry“
19:30 Dinner at „Gemaltes Haus“ (Frankfurt)
4Friday, June 7th 2019
Juridicum 717, Senckenberganlage 31-33, Campus Bockenheim
Presentations | Vorträge
„The Permeable Borders of Literary Genre:
09:45 - 10:15 Aylin Orbay Ekkyō bungaku“
„Two Authors of Korean Japanese Literature in the Heisei
10:15 - 11:00 Maren Haufs-Brusberg Period: Sagisawa Megumu and Kaneshiro Kazuki“
„The Challenges of Japanese-Language
Border-Crossing Literature: “Roji” in
11:00 - 11:45 Fujiwara Dan Rībi Hideo’s Fictions“
„The Oppressed Strike Back: Nakamura Fuminori’s Heisei
11:45 - 12:30 Adam Greguš Existentialism of Suri and Ōkoku“
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
„Queer Literature Through the Heisei Era:
13:30 - 14:00 Eva Bender Love on Holiday by Fujino Chiya“
„Transgression of Borders in the Works of Hiwa Satoko,
14:00 - 14:45 Daniela Tan Nakajima Kyōko and Miura Shion“
14:45 - 15:30 Yoshio Hitomi „Kawakami Mieko’s Writings as Post-3.11 Literature“
„Save the Birds and You Will Save Yourself: Between
Social Malaise, otaku and hikikomori in Abe Kazushige’s
15:30 - 16:15 Filippo Cervelli Nipponia Nippon“
16:15 - 17:00 Coffee Break
„Healing Through Nostalgia: Sada Masashi and his
17:00 - 17:30 Anita Drexler Transmedia Storytelling in the Heisei Era“
„Remembrance of the Second World War in Texts
17:30 - 18:15 Yuqi Chen of the Heisei Era“
„Deconstructing Japan: Murakami Ryū as Archetypical
18:15 - 19:00 David Jungmann Author of the Heisei Era“
Jeffrey Angles, Reading of Heisei Poetry
19:15 - 20:00 Christian Chappelow „Transcending Heisei“
20:15 Dinner at Restaurant „Namaste“
5Abstracts | Zusammenfassungen Day 1: Campus Westend 6
Michiko Mae (Düsseldorf)
Thursday, June 6th 2019 | 16:00-16:45 | The Eisenhower Room (Campus Westend)
平成文学とは何か？
平成時代30年における日本文学の新しい傾向
文学史叙述の課題とはある時期における文学の したのかを分析し、第二に平成時代に、日本文
意味の関連を構築することだと言われる。そこ 学には全体としてどのような発展があり、その
で本講演では、まず平成時代30年間に文学は 発展の傾向とはどのようなものなのかを考えて
時代とその時代の主な出来事や傾向にどう反応 みたい。
Was ist die Heisei-Literatur?
Neue Tendenzen der japanischen Literatur
der letzten 30 Jahre
E ine Aufgabe der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung
ist die Konstruktion von Sinnzusammenhängen,
auch in Bezug auf die jeweilige Epoche. In dem
aber auch grundsätzlich, wie die japanische Literatur
sich in den letzten dreißig Jahren entwickelt hat und
welche neuen Tendenzen man als Charakteristik der
Vortrag soll einerseits analysiert werden, wie die Heisei-Literatur feststellen kann.
Literatur der Heisei-Zeit auf bestimmte Ereignisse
und Tendenzen der Zeit reagiert hat, andererseits
Vita
Prof. Dr. Michiko Mae, founding director of the Department for Modern Japan Studies at Heinrich-Heine
University, Düsseldorf.
Contact
mae@phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de
7Jeffrey Angles (Western Michigan)
Thursday, June 6th 2019 | 16:45-17:30 | The Eisenhower Room (Campus Westend)
Nihon/go Literature Goes Global
S ince the dawn of modern Japanese literature,
there have been writers who left Japan and went
abroad to search for themselves and absorb new
as the “literature of Japan” produced in Japan
by Japanese writers, to become something more
expansive and appropriate for the twenty-first
literary ideas. At the beginning of the twenty-first century: a Nihongo bungaku. Not surprisingly, a
century, however, Japanese literature is more global common theme in much of this new literature is
than ever. Several of Japan’s most important writers the ways that language changes and grows as world
live abroad and write about their position as both a languages and cultural systems come together in
national and global citizen. Meanwhile, non-native unpredictable ways. This talk will look at this theme
speakers have recently won several of Japan’s most in two award-winning transnational writers—the
prestigious literary awards, so much so that critics poet Itō Hiromi who divides her time between
are using the word ekkyō bungaku (border-crossing California and Kumamoto, and the novelist Tawada
literature) to refer to their writing. In fact, when my Yōko who resides in Berlin—while sharing some of
own book of Japanese-language poetry Watashi no my own personal insights as an American poet who
hizuke henkō sen (My International Date Line, 2016) has spent large chunks of his life in Japan and writes
won the 2017 Yomiuri Prize for Literature, I found in Japanese. The inventive and often experimental
my own writing being described using those same Nihongo bungaku produced by these writers
words. has much to teach us about the ways that people
Transnational writers have expanded the negotiate being a global citizen and a Japanese-
notions of Nihon bungaku, usually understood language author at the same time.
Vita
Jeffrey Angles is a professor of Japanese literature at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, a poet, and
translator. His collection of original Japanese-language poetry Watashi no hizuke henkō sen (My International
Date Line, 2016), won the highly coveted Yomiuri Prize for Literature, an honor accorded to only a tiny
handful of non-native speakers since the award began in 1949.
Contact
jeffrey.angles@wmich.edu
8Christian Chappelow (Frankfurt)
Thursday, June 6th 2019 | 17:30-18:15 | The Eisenhower Room (Campus Westend)
Japanese Ecopoetry of the Late
Heisei Era
T he threefold catastrophe of March 11, 2011
can be discussed as a partial caesura within
Heisei-era poetry: A turning point for some poets at
the establishment of the 20-kilometer exclusion
zone, poets also raised urgent questions about
the environment and sustainable technology use:
least, defined in first instance by their socio-political Wakamatsu Jōtarō (* 1935) in his post-Fukushima
intent. In a retrospective view of the last Heisei poetry fundamentally asks about the state of
decade, however, the triple catastrophe is showing humanity in technology dependent modernity.
itself to be a starting point for broader discussions The emergence of a second „nuclear“ literature,
of technology ethics in Japan as well - in particular therefore, as a specific Japanese contribution to
the human relationship to nuclear technology contemporary ecopoetry?
and, more fundamentally, nature as a whole. With
Japanische Umweltlyrik der späten Heisei-Zeit
D ie Dreifachkatastrophe vom 11. März
2011 kann als Teilzäsur innerhalb Heisei-
zeitlicher Lyrikproduktion diskutiert werden. Mit
weitere Fragen an Umwelt und Nachhaltigkeit
in den Vordergrund. So fragt der aus Fukushima
stammende Lyriker Wakamatsu Jōtarō (*1935)
retrospektivem Blick auf die letzte Heisei-Dekade in seinen Gedichten nach 2011 eindringlich
zeigt sich die Dreifachkatastrophe jedoch auch als nach dem Zustand von Menschlichkeit in der
Ausgangspunkt für weitreichende Diskussionen von Technikmoderne. Ist das Aufkommen einer
Technikethik in Japan, insbesondere dem Verhältnis zweiten Literatur des „Nuklearen“ also als spezifisch
Mensch und Atom sowie, grundlegender, dem japanischer Anknüpfungspunkt an zeitgenössische
Verhältnis Mensch und Natur. Spätestens mit der „ecopoetry“ zu sehen?
Etablierung der 20-Kilometer-Sperrzone rücken
Vita
Christian Chappelow, M.A. is a research fellow at the Department of Japanese Studies at Goethe University,
Frankfurt. His research interests include contemporary Japanese poetry with particular focus on political
writings and representations of the “nuclear”. He submitted his PhD thesis on poet Wakamatsu Jōtarō (*1935)
in spring of 2019.
Contact
chappelow@em.uni-frankfurt.de
9Victoria Young (Cambridge)
Thursday, June 6th 2019 | 18:15-19:00 | The Eisenhower Room (Campus Westend)
A personal Resistance: Language and
Intertexuality in Tōma Hiroko’s Poetry
I n 2011, novelist and scholar Ōshiro Sadatoshi
described Okinawa as an ‘island of poetry’. Yet,
despite a gradual increase in the number of works
from afar, while scattered Okinawan cultural and
linguistic referents disrupt the disarming simplicity
of her poetic forms. This paper will concentrate
of Okinawan narrative fiction in translation and on two poems from Tōma’s collection: Backbone
related critical scholarship in English, Okinawan (Senaka) and Translation (Hon’yaku). Backbone
contemporary poetry has been neglected, especially re-imagines Baku’s poem A Conversation (1936)
that written by women. This paper seeks to redress as a critique of Okinawa’s postwar US military
this balance by introducing A Personal Calendar occupation. Translation then playfully defies the
(Hitori no carendā, 2009), a slender yet acclaimed implicit expectation of the mainland that Okinawan
collection by poet Tōma Hiroko (b. 1982), for voices should speak only in standard Japanese.
which she won the 32nd Yamanokuchi Baku Poetry By translating both poems and tracing their
Prize, named after one of Okinawa’s most appraised intertextual connections to a wider poetic tradition,
modern poets, in 2009. this paper reads Tōma’s appealing work as a personal
A Personal Calendar describes the experiences act of resistance to the ongoing injustices faced by
of a young Okinawan woman who leaves for Tokyo Okinawan lives and against their erasure from a
and later returns. Tōma’s poignant use of language mainstream literary imagination.
reveals the narrator’s fondness for her home and
her experience of dislocation and detachment
Vita
Dr. Victoria Young is a Lecturer at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at University of
Cambridge. Her research interests include modern and contemporary literature in Japan and Okinawa, the
writing of ethnic, gendered, and linguistic difference in literature (in both colonial period and contemporary
‚transborder‘ contexts); feminist literary criticism; translation in theory and practice.
Contact
vy202@cam.ac.uk
1011
Abstracts | Zusammenfassungen Day 2: Campus Bockenheim 12
Aylin Orbay (Frankfurt)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 09:45-10:15 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
The Permeable Borders of Literary Genre:
Ekkyō bungaku
I n the Heisei Era, the term ekkyō bungaku emerged
to describe works written in Japanese by non-
native speakers or works written in a language other
attempt to draw the boundaries of ekkyō, the aim
of this paper is to first provide an overview of a
representative sample of ekkyō writers, their texts
than Japanese by Japanese native speakers. As such, and their reception in Japanese literary criticism
ekkyō bungaku is still ill-defined as a literary genre, and secondly to situate the work of Akutagawa-
with the discourse in literary criticism centering Prize nominee Wen Yourou within the context of
around questions of nationality, language and border-crossing literature, its themes and narrative
the dichotomy of belonging and exclusion. In an strategies.
Die durchlässigen Grenzen literarischer Gattungen:
Ekkyō bungaku
D er Begriff ekkyō bungaku entstand in
der Heisei-Ära und bezeichnet sowohl
literarische Werke, die von Nicht-Muttersprachlern
Texte und ihre Rezeption in der japanischen
Literaturwissenschaft gegeben werden. Exemplarisch
wird anschließend das Werk der für den Akutagawa-
auf Japanisch verfasst wurden, als auch nicht- Preis nominierten Autorin Wen Yourou (*1980)
japanischsprachige Literatur, geschrieben von innerhalb der grenzüberschreitenden Literatur
Japanisch-Muttersprachlern. Als literarische nach ihren Motiven und narrativen Strategien
Gattung ist ekkyō bungaku damit noch unscharf verortet. Ihr Gebrauch des Code-Switchings
definiert. soll dabei als Stilmittel für die Darstellung des
Um die Grenzen von ekkyō klarer zu ziehen, Sprachkontaktphänomens in einigen ekkyō-Werken
soll in diesem Vortrag ein Überblick über eine diskutiert werden.
repräsentative Auswahl von Autoren, deren
Vita
Aylin Orbay, B.A. received her Bachelor Degree at Goethe University Frankfurt in 2015, having studied
Japanese Studies and Pedagogy. Her research interests include contemporary Japanese Literature and
Narratology.
Contact
aylin_orbay@gmx.de
13Maren Haufs-Brusberg (Düsseldorf)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 10:15-11:00 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
Two Authors of Korean Japanese
Literature in the Heisei Period:
Sagisawa Megumu and Kaneshiro Kazuki
I n the Heisei period, the authors of Korean
Japanese literature dealt with a wide range of
topics in their texts, introducing new perspectives
texts of Sagisawa and Kaneshiro be regarded as
representative for the Korean Japanese literature of
the Heisei period? Did their writing share common
and orientations. The present paper examines the characteristics with the Japanese literature of the
Korean Japanese writing of two of these authors, Heisei period in general? And which role did the
Sagisawa Megumu (1968-2004) and Kaneshiro new media play for these authors and the reception
Kazuki (*1968). Particularly, the paper focuses on of their texts?
the following questions: In which sense can the
Entwicklungen und Themen der japankoreanischen
Literatur in der Heisei-Ära
I m Zentrum der japankoreanischen Literatur
der Heisei-Ära stehen Texte der sogenannten
dritten Generation japankoreanischer Autorinnen
und Kaneshiro Kazuki (geb. 1968). Charakteristisch
für diese neue, dritte literarische Generation war
eine augenfällige Entpolitisierung, die sich auch
und Autoren, beispielsweise aus der Feder von Yi hinsichtlich der Entwicklung der japanischen
Yang-ji (1955-1992), Sagisawa Megumu (1968- Literatur insgesamt feststellen lässt.
2004), Yū Miri (geb. 1968), Gen Getsu (geb. 1965)
Vita
Maren Haufs-Brusberg, M.A. is a lecturer at the department of Modern Japanese Studies at Heinrich-
Heine University, Düsseldorf. In 2011 she received her M.A. from University of Trier, having studied Japanese
Studies, Political Sciences, Sociology and Philosophy. She is writing her PhD thesis about gender identities and
ethnic identities in contemporary Korean Japanese literature.
Contact
maren.haufs-brusberg@hhu.de
14Fujiwara Dan (Toulouse)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 11:00-11:45 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
The Challenges of Japanese-Language
Border-Crossing Literature: “Roji” in
Rībi Hideo’s Fictions
A small number of literary works written in
Japanese by non-native speakers have been
published since the end of the 1980s. Although
Beyond this conceptual issue, one of the
most striking aspects of Japanese-language
border-crossing literature, and one that deserves
they have received mixed reviews from readers more positive recognition, is that the authors
and critics, they represent an interesting set of texts independently choose the Japanese language to
within the works published during the Heisei Era. create their literary works and use it to explore
This contemporary genre, which I call “Japanese- the outside world beyond Japan. The aim of my
language border-crossing literature” (Nihongo presentation is to discuss this topic by analysing
ekkyō bungaku), includes writers such as Rībi Hideo Rībi Hideo’s fictional works, in particular his short
(Ian Hideo Levy, *1950), who made his debut with stories, which are primarily set in China. I will
Seijōki no kikoenai heya (1987; trans. Christopher show how the author describes China, especially
D. Scott, A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner, its declining suburban areas, and how he develops
2011), Debiddo Zopetī (David Zoppetti, *1962), an original writing style in Japanese using the word
Yan Ī (Yang Yi, *1964), Shirin Nezamafi (Shirin roji, borrowed from Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992),
Nezammafi, *1979), and Āsā Binādo (Arthur Binard, who used it to refer to buraku in his own novels. My
*1967). These writers have consistently challenged hope is to suggest another/an alternative framework
the unspoken rule that Japanese literature is written for thinking about Heisei Era texts.
by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and
for Japanese readers, thereby urging us to rethink
what can be called truly Japanese literature.
Vita
Fujiwara Dan is an associate professor at the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès (France) and member of
the Centre for Japanese Studies (CEJ-Inalco, France). After having received his PhD. from University Paris
Diderot, he shifted from modern French Literature to modern and contemporary Japanese literature. His
current research focuses on “border-crossing literature” (ekkyō bungaku) and post-3.11 literature, especially
the works of Rībi Hideo, Mizumura Minae, and Tawada Yōko.
Contact
dan.fujiwara@univ-tlse2.fr
15Adam Greguš (Wien)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 11:45-12:30 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
The Oppressed Strike Back: Nakamura
Fuminori’s Heisei Existentialism of Suri and Ōkoku
I n recent years, Nakamura Fuminori has become
one of the most prominent Japanese authors of
contemporary crime literature. His bleak stories,
They are pushed to the margins of society or into
crime; and as concurrent perpetrators and victims,
they are steadily positioned in a moral grey zone.
narrated by dubious antiheroes, are well exemplified The narrators of Suri (a pickpocket) and Ōkoku (a
by two “sister novels” conceived as parallel stories, prostitute) find out that their life paths have been
Suri (2009, eng. The Thief, 2012) and Ōkoku (2011, masterminded by a yakuza boss ever since they were
eng. The Kingdom, 2016). This talk will map out children, and are eventually forced to perform jobs
the essential characteristics of Nakamura’s work for him, all the while searching for a way out of their
as seen in these two examples. In the context of respective predicaments. In both novels, Nakamura
post-Fukushima literature, Nakamura creates a portrays Japan as a place of decay, thoroughly
counter-project to the literature of “healing” (iyashi) permeated by class injustice. In this talk, I will
through pronounced and frequent references to critically explore Nakamura’s portrayal of post-
existentialism or Russian classics such as Crime disaster Japan as well as suggestions for liberation
or Punishment, as well as his unyielding focus on from its crisis, as hinted at in his works.
systemic inequality and exploitation of the weakest
and most vulnerable within the Japanese society. In
Suri and Ōkoku, Nakamura’s criticism of Japan as a
system, his portrayal of moral ambiguity and crime,
motives of childhood and especially child abuse (a
pivotal aspect of Nakamura’s fiction) and aspects of
class and gender are of particular interest.
Nakamura’s protagonists often become victims
of manipulation which is invisible to them and, once
faced with it, they find themselves powerless against.
Vita
Adam Greguš, M.A. studied Japanese Studies and Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of
Vienna and is active as a research assistant there since October 2018. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a
research assistant at the University of Trier, where he also began a dissertation project on Hayashi Fumiko’s
writing during the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Pacific War.
Contact
adam.gregus@univie.ac.at
16Eva Bender (Frankfurt)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 13:30-14:00 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
Queer Literature Through the Heisei Era:
Love on Holiday by Fujino Chiya
T he Heisei period has been a critical era in which
for the first time the “gay boom” was taken up
by the mainstream media and public. It was followed
question remains on how to define Queer Literature
through the Heisei Era. In my presentation I will
discuss the different interpretations behind “queer”,
by more visibility, the first Lesbian and Gay Pride highlight the contradictions between them and
Parade in 1994 and the publishing of essential books attempt to give a definition by taking the story
like Private Gay Life (1991) by Fushimi Noriaki Love on Holiday (1999) by award-winning writer
(*1963) and On being Lesbian (1992) by Kakefuda Fujino Chiya (*1962), a trans-woman herself, into
Hiroko (*1964). Especially the 1990s experienced consideration.
a huge leap in queer stories and a wide academic
and public discourse about them. Nevertheless, the
Queere Literatur in der Heisei-Ära:
Love on Holiday von Fujino Chiya
Z u Beginn der Heisei-Zeit werden die
Mainstream-Medien angefangen bei Serien,
Magazinen und Filmen vom sogenannten „gay
Theory, wie sich u.a. am umfassenden akademischen
und öffentlichen Diskurs zeigt. Nichtsdestotrotz
kann in der Heisei-Zeit keine allgemeingültige
boom“ eingenommen. Daraufhin finden queere Definition von queerer Literatur vorgelegt
Menschen in der Gesellschaft mehr Beachtung, die werden. Im Vortrag werden die verschiedenen
erste Pride Parade findet 1994 statt, und elementare Interpretationen des Begriffs „queer“ vorgestellt, die
Werke wie Private Gay Life (1991) von Fushimi einzelnen Widersprüche herausgearbeitet, und es
Noriaki (*1963) und On being Lesbian (1992) von wird versucht, anhand des Werkes Love on Holiday
Kakefuda Hiroko werden veröffentlicht. Vor allem (1999) der Akutagawa-Preisträgerin Fujino Chiya
die 1990er bilden die Geburtsstunde der Queer (*1962) queere Literatur zu definieren.
Vita
Eva Bender, B.A. is a student research assistant at the Department of Japanese Studies at Goethe University,
Frankfurt. Her research interests include queer theory and contemporary Japanese Art.
Contact
evbender@em.uni-frankfurt.de
17Daniela Tan (Zürich)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 14:00-14:45 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
Transgression of Borders in the Works of
Hiwa Satoko, Nakajima Kyōko and Miura Shion
T he transgression of borders (ekkyōsei) is in
many ways a core topic within contemporary
Japanese literature: linguistic, medial and with
of living irrupting the unsaid rules of the nuclear
family in Heisei daikazoku (2006-2007) and Chiisai
ouchi (2010) by Nakajima Kyōko (*1964), and the
regards to content. I shall discuss this thesis, using power of a lesbian love that overcomes borders
the example of texts by three Heisei-writers. The between nations, norms, and life and death in
blurring of borders between this world and the Nonanhana tsūshin (2018) by Miura Shion (*1976).
afterworld in Urashima (2016) und Yukue (2012) by
Hiwa Satoko (*1974), the impact of traditional ways
Grenzüberschreitungen bei drei Heisei-Autorinnen:
Hiwa Satoko, Nakajima Kyōko and Miura Shion
G renzüberschreitung kennzeichnet die neuere
japanische Gegenwartsliteratur sowohl auf
sprachlicher, medialer wie auch inhaltlicher Ebene.
übersetzter japanischer Literatur wie auch auf
die Produktion japanischsprachiger Literatur
von ausländischen AutorInnen – und damit auf
Die Ära Heisei als zufällige und mechanische Zäsur die grundsätzliche Problematik einer nationalen
innerhalb der japanischen Gegenwartsliteratur Literatur (kokubungaku).
(gendai bungaku) mag fragwürdig sein, zumal Am Beispiel ausgewählter Werke von
eines der Merkmale zeitgenössischer Literatur drei Heisei-Autorinnen soll die Erkundung des
gerade das Grenzüberschreitende (ekkyōsei) ist, wie Neulandes jenseits herkömmlicher (und ebenso
Kawamura Minato bereits 2009 feststellte. Diese zufälliger) Grenzen aufgezeigt und diskutiert
verweist sowohl auf die globalisierte Rezeption werden.
Vita
Daniela Tan is a senior lecturer at the Japanese department of the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies of
Zurich University. Her research focus is contemporary literature and literary criticism. Currently she also
serves as a research associate in the ERC project „Time in Medieval Japan“, and works on body time – the
conceptualization of the female body in medical, religious and literary texts.
Contact
daniela.tan@aoi.uzh.ch
18Yoshio Hitomi (Tōkyō)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 14:45-15:30 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
Kawakami Mieko’s Writings as Post-3.11 Literature
F or many Japanese writers, the tragedy of 3.11
triggered not only a profound disruption of
normality, but a radical refiguring of what normality
disaster response (literary, political, environmental)
became the object of attention in the global media.
This paper explores Kawakami’s immediate, poetic
is for our everyday existence. For the author response to the disaster of 3.11 through March Yarn
Kawakami Mieko, the catastrophic event allowed (2011), and the evocation of memory and trauma
her to reconnect with an earlier trauma of the 1995 in Wisteria and Three Women (2017), written six
Great Hanshin Earthquake. While this experience of years later. It will address the questions that many
her youth profoundly shaped the themes underlying writers grappled with as they faced a new awareness
her work, it was only after 3.11 that Kawakami of citizenship and a global audience after 3.11: What
begins to reexamine and shift the traumatic responsibilities did they have as writers for their
memory to the core of her philosophy and write nation? What did it mean to be a Japanese writer
with a new-found consciousness as Japan became in the twenty-first century, especially after such an
thrust onto the international stage, when its post- immense national and environmental crisis?
東日本大震災がもたらした悲劇は、川上未映子をはじ 舞台に押し出されたという新たな意識を持って書き始め
めとする多くの日本人作家にとって、人々の日常を深刻 たのである。本発表の前半では、東日本大震災を扱った
なまでに混乱させただけでなく、
「日常」
とは何かという 川上の代表的作品「三月の毛糸」
（2012年）
における
「ま
ことを根本的に見直す契機となった。また同時に川上に えのひ」
という詩的概念について論じる。そして後半で
とっては、若い頃に経験した1995年の阪神・淡路大震 は、震災6年後に書かれた最新作の短編「ウィステリア
災というトラウマに再び回帰することとなった。川上の人 と三人の女たち」
（2017年）
を論じる。発表を通して、こ
生観には震災経験が大きく影響しているが、3.11以前 のような国家的惨事や地球環境問題に直面した際に問
は自分の作品のテーマの基盤にトラウマの根源があるこ われる文学の価値、作家としての責任、国家という枠組
とを明確に提示することはなかった。東日本大震災後初 み、などという大きな問題についても考えたい。
めて、その2つの大惨事を結びつけ、被災後の日本の文
学者や政治家の反応や、環境問題に関する日本の対応
に、世界中のメディアの関心が集まり、日本が国際的な
Vita
Yoshio Hitomi is an associate professor at Waseda University, Tōkyō. Her main area of specialization is
modern and contemporary Japanese literature with a focus on women’s writing and literary communities.
Contact
hyoshio@waseda.jp
19Filippo Cervelli (Durham)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 15:30-16:15 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
Save the Birds and You Will Save Yourself: Between
Social Malaise, otaku and hikikomori in Abe Kazushige’s
Nipponia Nippon
I n his variegated fiction, Abe Kazushige is
attentive to controversial subjects, social crises
and obsessions that make up the so-called “dark
purpose in life, but also with pathologies related to the
dependence for others’ recognition and acceptance
(which have been highlighted for example in studies
Japan.” Exploring the tropes associated with these by psychiatrist Saitō Tamaki). By playing with
social manifestations, his literature allows to reflect and deconstructing social stereotypes and tropes
on common constructions of social categories, and in such individual crises usually associated with
how they may be used to interrogate contemporary contemporary Japanese youth, Nipponia Nippon
Japanese society. offers a powerful literary reflection on the relevance
The novel Nipponia Nippon (2001) is a prime of the role played by these general perceptions in
case study for this. It is the story of the teenage the construction of “pathological” identities in
recluse Tōya Haruo preparing meticulously for his contemporary Japan. In doing so, it brings forward
mission to infiltrate an endangered species facility a trait new in Heisei literature, namely the interplay
in northern Japan to break out specimens of crested with images of post-bubble Japanese society, and the
ibis, the symbol of the Japanese government’s selfish engagement with the readers to highlight the issues’
nationalistic policies. Due to the protagonist’s interdependence and reflect on their truth.
isolated life style, the novel can be associated with
hikikomori literature, yet a closer analysis reveals
that it stages a delicate interplay with issues and
expectations that are usually related to otaku, such
as obsessive interests and the supposed lack of a
Vita
Filippo Cervelli is a teaching fellow in Japanese at Durham University. He is interested in representations of
individual and social crises across contemporary humanities, ranging from literature to animation and comics.
Contact
filippo.cervelli@durham.ac.uk
20Anita Drexler (Wien)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 17:00-17:30 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
Healing Through Nostalgia: Sada Masashi and his
Transmedia Storytelling in the Heisei Era
F or almost five decades Sada Masashi, a Nagasaki-
born songsmith, has maintained a distinguished
career in Japanese popular music. By promoting
In my presentation I will draw out the
main narratives of Sadas lyrics, explaining
the multiplatform approach to his storytelling
images of wholesome families, nostalgic hometowns eminent almost exclusively during the Heisei-era.
and a slower approach to life, his lyrics are often Furthermore, I will explore Sadas own brand of
regarded as the epitome of Shōwa-era songwriting. iyashi-kei, with its connections to what has become
In recent years Sada managed to establish a second known as Shōwa-nostalgia, contrasting it with
career as an author of prose, where, despite being discourses on more prominent writers of both
considered more of a minor figure, his works have genres.
enjoyed considerable commercial success.
Heilung durch Shōwa-Nostalgie: Die Transmedialität
Sada Masashis in der Heisei-Zeit
D er Name Sada Masashi verkörpert in Japan,
wie wenige sonst, das Liedermachen der
Shōwa-Zeit. Als er im Jahr 2003 mit Shōrō nagashi
Literatur, sondern auch des Songwritings fungiert
und welche Rolle geschicktes Crossmarketing in
seiner Verbreitung einnehmen kann. Zudem soll
seinen ersten Roman veröffentlichte, wurde dieser, illustriert werden, wie ostentatives Japanisch-sein
entgegen gemischter Kritiken, zum kommerziellen als Gegenströmung zu Trends der Heisei-Zeit wie
Erfolg. Der Vortrag möchte die großen Narrative Globalisierung und Exophonie eingesetzt wird.
offenlegen, mit denen Sada in seinen Arbeiten der
Heisei-Zeit operierte. Er soll aufzeigen, wie Shōwa-
Nostalgie als Stilmittel nicht nur innerhalb der iyashi-
Vita
Anita Drexler received a B.A. in Japanese Studies from the University of Vienna, from which she has recently
graduated with a Master’s degree. Her research interests lie in the field of mainstream popular music and its
relationship with nationalistic discourses and cultural policies.
Contact
drexler_anita@hotmail.com
21Yuqi Chen (Munich)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 17:30-18:15 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
Remembrance of the Second World War
in Texts of the Heisei Era
C oming at a time when memory is shifting to
postmemory, and the so-called “experiencing
generation” to the “confessing generation”, this
writers: Murakami Haruki (*1949), Okuizumi
Hikaru (*1951), and Nakajima Kyōko (*1964).
Furthermore, being aware of recent tendencies of
presentation explores how the Second World War traumatic memories moving away from a historical
is re-examined and recreated in texts of the Heisei focus towards ethical concerns, I attempt to uncover
Era by Japanese writers who have no direct war the new attitude that third-generation writers
experiences. Through the lens of postmemory, introduce towards war memories.
which has been widely incorporated into the critical
discourse of Holocaust studies, this presentation
focuses on works of three contemporary Japanese
Erinnerung an den Zweiten Weltkrieg in Texten
der Heisei-Ära
I n Zeiten, in denen „Erinnerung“ in
„Nacherinnerung“ übergeht, und in denen
aus der sogenannten „erfahrenden Generation“
Werke von drei zeitgenössischen japanischen
Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern: Murakami
Haruki (*1949), Okuizumi Hikaru (*1951) und
eine „gestehende Generation“ geworden ist, Nakajima Kyōko (*1964). Ich möchte aufzeigen,
möchte mein Vortrag aufzeigen, wie der Zweite welche Sichtweisen und Einstellungen diese
Weltkrieg in Texten der Heisei-Ära von japanischen Akteure der dritten Generation in das Feld der
SchriftstellerInnen ohne eigene Kriegserfahrung Kriegserinnerungen einführen – gerade vor dem
literarisch konstruiert und neu bewertet wurde. Hintergrund der jüngsten Tendenz, traumatische
Von der Warte der „Postmemory“, die in Diskursen Erinnerungen losgelöst von historischen Kontexten
der Holocaust-Studien weitreichende Verwendung an Hand ethischer Fragestellungen zu bewerten.
fand, konzentriert sich meine Präsentation auf
Vita
Yuqi Chen, M.A. is a Ph.D. student at LMU Munich. Her current research interests includes war and peace in
Japanese literature, memory and cultural trauma, and feminist theory.
Contact
whuchenyuqi@gmail.com
22Damian David Jungmann (Frankfurt)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 18:15-19:00 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
Deconstructing Japan: Murakami Ryū as
Archetypical Author of the Heisei Era
W hen Murakami Ryū (*1952) won the
Akutagawa Prize for his controversial yet
highly successful debut novel Kagirinaku tōmei ni
very own design, as he managed to position himself
just outside of the fringes of what used to be
considered either Pure Literature (junbungaku) or
chikai burū (1976), the then only 24-year old was still Modern Literature (kindai bungaku).
considered to be somewhat of an outcast. Critics like The debates around the so called “Japanese
Etō Jun (1932-1999) outright dismissed Murakami, Postmodern” followed him throughout most of his
calling him receiving the most prestegious award highly productive career, Murakami set a precedent
for japanese Literature to be nothing short but for many young authors that debuted during the
„nonsense“ (nansensu). For the most part though, Heisei Era.
his status as an „Enfant terrible“ was by Murakamis
Die Entzauberung Japans: Murakami Ryū als
Archetypischer Autor der Heisei-Ära
A ls Murakami Ryū (*1952) Ende der 1970er
Jahre mit dem renommierten Akutagawa-Preis
für Literatur ausgezeichnet wurde, wurde er von
bungaku) angesehen wurde. Heute mag Murakami
längst im Literaturestablishment angekommen sein.
Doch dies liegt in erster Linie an den Veränderungen
den meisten etablierten Literaturkritikern Japans auf dem japanischen Literaturmarkt, die er in seiner
noch als eine Art Außenseiter betrachtet. Doch die langen und produktiven Karriere maßgeblich
Rolle des „Enfant terrible“ nahm Murakami dabei mitgeprägt hat.
stets dankend an, und er positionierte sich bewusst
außerhalb dessen, was einst als „reine Literatur“
(junbungaku) bzw. „moderne Literatur“ (kindai
Vita
Damian David Jungmann is a research fellow at the Department of Japanese Studies at Goethe University,
Frankfurt. His research interests include countercultures and protestmovements, Japanese film and
contemporary Japanese literature.
Contact
jungmann@em.uni-frankfurt.de
23Jeffrey Angles (Michigan) & Christian Chappelow (Frankfurt)
Friday, June 7th 2019 | 19:15-20:00 | Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim)
Poetry Reading: „Transcending Heisei“
C oncluding our conference in Frankfurt and
saying farewell to Heisei literature, Jeffrey
Angles and Christian Chappelow will present
ecological unsustainability. We will draw inspiration
from the poets discussed in our papers and present
our translations of their work, hopefully creating
poems that dared to look beyond the temporal the somewhat nostalgic flair of a German “literary
and spatial confinements of that era – poems that evening” (Literaturabend).
reflected on Japanese reality from an intercultural
perspective, that looked to the past to understand
the present, or that glimpsed into the future to
visualize the looming consequences of societal and
Gedichtlesung „Jenseits von Heisei“
Z um Abschluss unserer Konferenz in Frankfurt,
und um die Heisei-Literatur zu verabschieden,
präsentieren Jeffrey Angles und Christian
um drohende Konsequenzen vernachlässigter
gesellschaftlicher und ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit
zu spiegeln. Wir richten uns an die Lyrikerinnen
Chappelow Gedichte, die einen Blick jenseits und Lyriker, die wir in unseren Vorträgen
der raumzeitlichen Grenzen dieser Ära gewagt besprochen haben, und lesen unsere Übersetzungen
haben – Gedichte, die eine japanische Realität in ihrer Texte – auch in der Hoffnung, noch einmal das
interkultureller Perspektive reflektieren; die sich nostalgische Flair des deutschen Literaturabends
an die Vergangenheit wenden, um die Gegenwart aufleben zu lassen.
zu verstehen; oder die in die Zukunft blicken,
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Directions | Wegbeschreibungen Campus Westend | Campus Bockenheim 26
The Eisenhower Room (Campus Westend)
By public transport: From Frankfurt Main Station, „Hauptbahnhof “, take the suburban railway (S-Bahn)
lines 1 to 9 to „Hauptwache“ and transfer to subway line 1 in the direction of Ginnheim, line 2 in the
direction of Gonzenheim, line 3 in the direction of Hohemark or line 8 in the direction of Riedberg and exit at
„Holzhausenstraße“. University campus Westend is a 10 minute walk from subway station „Holzhausenstraße“
(line U3 and U8).
The „Eisenhower Room“ (also known as Room 1.314) is on the first floor in the former IG Farben building
(No 1 on the map).
27Juridicum 717 (Campus Bockenheim) By public transport: From Frankfurt Main Station, „Hauptbahnhof “, take suway line U4 in the direction of „Bockenheimer Warte“. University campus Bockenheim is a 2 minute walk from subway station „Bockenheimer Warte“. Room 717 is on the 7th floor of the „Juridicum“ (No 8 on the map). 28
Cafés and Restaurants (Campus Bockenheim)
Café & Bar | Extrablatt
Good for a quick coffee and snack. Very close to Campus Bockenheim, at the „piazza“ near the medieval tower
and subway station of Bockenheimer Warte.
Address: Bockenheimer Landstraße 141, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
Café & Bar | Café Albatros
„Albatros“ is a very cozy café which also offers some decent meals. Service can be a bit slow here.
Approx. 5 minute walk from Campus Bockenheim in direction of Frankfurt Main West.
Address: Kiesstraße 27, 60486 Frankfurt am Main
Café & Restaurant | Caféhaus Siesmayer
Located in the famous historic Botanical Gardens. Offers good meals in a nice atmosphere.
Approx. 15 minute walk from Campus Bockenheim in the direction of Palmengarten.
Address: Siesmayerstraße 59, 60323 Frankfurt am Main
Restaurant | Ramen Jun
Very cozy place for a bowl of Ramen. Approx. 10 minute walk from Campus Bockenheim in direction of
Messe Frankfurt.
Address: Wilhelm-Hauff-Straße 10, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
Café & Bar | Café KoZ
This student-run café is at the very heart of Campus Bockenheim. It offers a decent coffee and a few small
snacks to eat. You may find Café KoZ right on the other side of the Campus square (approx. 2 minute walk),
facing the Juridicum.
Address: Mertonstraße 26-28, 60325 Frankfurt am Main
Hotel | Hotel West
Address: Gräfstraße 81, 60486 Frankfurt am Main
Telephone: +49(0)69 2479020
Website: https://www.hotelwest.de/
29Announcement | Ankündigung
Special Issue Heisei 1989-2019:
Japanese Literature
A n era is coming to an end in Japan. On
April 30, 2019, Emperor Akihito handed the
chrysanthemum throne to his son Naruhito. His
ceremonial enthronement began on May 1st, 2019
and marked a new era under the motto Reiwa. The
Heisei epoch – 1989 to 2019 – and the events of the
last thirty years move into the realm of historicity.
Heisei had its share of tragic events: The
earthquake in Kōbe, the sarin gas attack by the neo-
religious group AUM in the center of the Tōkyō
metropolis, and finally the threefold disaster in
the northeast of the country. Japanese literature
has extensively documented the Heisei Era and
its historic occurences. Time-diagnostic writings
were especially popular, creating numerous literary
representations of the last three decades.
The Special Issue Heisei 1989-2019 gives
Edited by: Lisette Gebhardt, insights into the literary and cultural life of the
Damian David Jungmann, Christian Chappelow past years. It aims to say goodbye, while also giving
a glance into the future under the new banner of
Publisher: EB-Verlag Dr. Brandt, Berlin Reiwa. The focus, therefore, is on the zero nendai and
Date of Publication: June 2019 the 2000s – with hitherto in the West barely known
writers such as Henmi Yō, Shiraishi Kazufumi,
Language: German Murata Sayaka and Furuichi Noritoshi.
ISBN: 978-3-86893-309-3
Paperback | 144 pages
E-Mail: post@ebverlag.de
Internet: www.ebverlag.de
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