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SUMMARY:Ôe\, Africa\, and Mr. Delchef: Non-Aligning Japan
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nPlease join for a lecture with:\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Hill\, Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Literature\, University of Michigan \nModerated by: Kim Brandt\, Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University \nŌe Kenzaburō’s 1964 novel A Personal Matter begins with the protagonist looking at a map of Africa. What does this opening scene have to do with the novel’s intrigue\, which involves a baby\, Soviet nuclear tests\, and a peculiar Balkan diplomat? The beginnings of an answer are in Ōe’s work with the Tokyo-based Committee for African and Asian Writers and his contributions to its magazine\, Asia-Africa Bulletin\, which connect his most famous novel to a less known concern with the decolonization of Asia and Africa. Professor Hill argues that A Personal Matter outlined a new way of understanding Japan’s positionality in the postwar world. In Ōe’s view\, the role of the Japanese state in the U.S.-Soviet confrontation defined Japanese intellectuals’ Sartrean “situation”—the position in which they had to act—but did not limit the non-aligned alliances with other parts of the world that they could imagine for themselves and the country. On the contrary\, imaginative non-alignment and situated ethical and political action\, including opposition to atomic weapons\, supported each other. \n \nNo registration required. \nThis event is organized by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.\nEvent Contact Information:\nAthina Fontenot\n212-854-6916\naf3018@columbia.edu\n
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