國際台灣學研究中心國際學者講座
International Taiwan Studies Center: Lecture
講者：Faye Yuan Kleeman (Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado)
講題：Boats, Trains, and the Tropics: Japanese (Post)Colonial Travel Writing on Taiwan
時間：2020年5月12日（二）10:20-12:10
地點：台師大文學院 正305教室
主持：Ann Heylen賀安娟教授
Abstract
Boats, Trains, and the Tropics: Japanese (Post)Colonial Travel Writing on Taiwan
During the half century of the Japanese Empire (1895-1945), the East Asian region saw an unprecedented movement of people, goods, culture, and ideas that not only transformed the metropole (Japan) but also strongly influenced its various colonies. Accompanying this newly emerged transnational and cross-cultural mobility, a new type of travel writing, depicting travel between the colonies and the metropole (or even between colonies), also developed to fulfill the curiosity of Japanese readers. It essentially altered the conventional perception of the colonies and knowledge of the outside world. My lecture will focus on three modern and contemporary Japanese writers, whose writings on Taiwan crisscrossed national and cultural boundaries, shedding light on the potential, and limits, of this cultural interface in a period spanning colonial and postcolonial Taiwan.
Biography
Faye Yuan Kleeman is a professor of modern Japanese Literature and Culture at the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado. She specializes in modern and contemporary Japanese and literature, Japanophone Studies, comparative literature, as well as film, gender, (post)colonial theory, and visual culture.