日本英文学会関東支部メールマガジン 臨時号 2025年11月27日
2025/11/27 (Thu) 15:00
日本英文学会関東支部メールマガジン
臨時号 2025年11月27日
菅野素子先生（鶴見大学）よりお知らせです。
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ジェリーン・タン先生(City University of Hong Kong)講演会
講師: Jerrine Tan Ee-Wen, Ph. D. (Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong)
講演タイトル：“Toxic Intimacies: Tawada Yoko’s The Emissary as Counternarrative to Japan’s Nuclear and Environmental Historiographies.”
日時：2025年12月6日(土) 15:00~17:00
場所：鶴見大学（横浜市鶴見区鶴見2-1-3）1号館403教室
使用言語：英語 (日本語の補足説明あり)
対面のみでの開催、申し込み不要、入場無料
主催：鶴見大学英語英文学会、鶴見大学文学部国際交流委員会
お問合わせ先：菅野素子（鶴見大学）sugano-m☆tsurumi-u.ac.jp ☆をアットマークに変更してください。
＊講師ご紹介：
Jerrine Tan is assistant professor of English at City University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in English from Brown University. Her research lies at the intersection of world literature, transnational feminism, and ecofiction. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, Wasafiri, MELUS: Multi Ethnic Literature of the US, and Textual Practice. She also writes regularly for public-facing platforms such as The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, WIRED, Literary Hub, and the Brooklyn Rail among others.
＊講演概要：
Tawada Yoko’s eco-dystopian The Emissary can be read as a meditation on the aftermath of the atomic bombs, Japan’s Four Postwar Pollution Diseases, and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. By rooting Tawada’s novel in Japan’s nuclear and environmental historiographies, I argue that the novel illuminates what I am calling Japan’s “toxic intimacies,” a doubly valenced term. First, I demonstrate how the novel brings us to consider Japan’s ‘toxic intimacies’ with nuclear warfare and energy and environmental pollution, highlighting its histories with American militarism, East Asian imperialism, and industrialisation in the 20th and 21st century. Next, I outline how Tawada’s novel bracingly encounters a world in crisis by imagining a different kind of ‘toxic intimacy’－alternative paradigms of ecological care and relationality that foreground affective networks of interdependence. By setting Japan’s nuclear and environmental historiography alongside the often-eclipsed history of activism that was born from it, I argue that the latter is the antidote to the former. Finally, by drawing on ecofeminism, queer ecology, and disability justice through thinkers such as Anna Tsing, Mel Chen, Jina Kim, and Sunaura Taylor, I argue that Tawada’s novel embodies a politics of radical survival－staging a form of world-making at the end of the world.
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臨時号 2025年11月27日
菅野素子先生（鶴見大学）よりお知らせです。
****************************************
ジェリーン・タン先生(City University of Hong Kong)講演会
講師: Jerrine Tan Ee-Wen, Ph. D. (Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong)
講演タイトル：“Toxic Intimacies: Tawada Yoko’s The Emissary as Counternarrative to Japan’s Nuclear and Environmental Historiographies.”
日時：2025年12月6日(土) 15:00~17:00
場所：鶴見大学（横浜市鶴見区鶴見2-1-3）1号館403教室
使用言語：英語 (日本語の補足説明あり)
対面のみでの開催、申し込み不要、入場無料
主催：鶴見大学英語英文学会、鶴見大学文学部国際交流委員会
お問合わせ先：菅野素子（鶴見大学）sugano-m☆tsurumi-u.ac.jp ☆をアットマークに変更してください。
＊講師ご紹介：
Jerrine Tan is assistant professor of English at City University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in English from Brown University. Her research lies at the intersection of world literature, transnational feminism, and ecofiction. Her essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Modern Fiction Studies, Wasafiri, MELUS: Multi Ethnic Literature of the US, and Textual Practice. She also writes regularly for public-facing platforms such as The New York Times, New York Times Magazine, WIRED, Literary Hub, and the Brooklyn Rail among others.
＊講演概要：
Tawada Yoko’s eco-dystopian The Emissary can be read as a meditation on the aftermath of the atomic bombs, Japan’s Four Postwar Pollution Diseases, and the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. By rooting Tawada’s novel in Japan’s nuclear and environmental historiographies, I argue that the novel illuminates what I am calling Japan’s “toxic intimacies,” a doubly valenced term. First, I demonstrate how the novel brings us to consider Japan’s ‘toxic intimacies’ with nuclear warfare and energy and environmental pollution, highlighting its histories with American militarism, East Asian imperialism, and industrialisation in the 20th and 21st century. Next, I outline how Tawada’s novel bracingly encounters a world in crisis by imagining a different kind of ‘toxic intimacy’－alternative paradigms of ecological care and relationality that foreground affective networks of interdependence. By setting Japan’s nuclear and environmental historiography alongside the often-eclipsed history of activism that was born from it, I argue that the latter is the antidote to the former. Finally, by drawing on ecofeminism, queer ecology, and disability justice through thinkers such as Anna Tsing, Mel Chen, Jina Kim, and Sunaura Taylor, I argue that Tawada’s novel embodies a politics of radical survival－staging a form of world-making at the end of the world.
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