{"id":4910,"date":"2023-09-26T06:04:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T06:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2023-11-15T18:04:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T18:04:03","slug":"oct-9-coronavirus-as-a-metaphor-in-japanese-covid-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/news\/oct-9-coronavirus-as-a-metaphor-in-japanese-covid-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"OCT 9: Coronavirus as a Metaphor in Japanese COVID Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us <strong>via Zoom<\/strong> for a talk with Dr. <strong>Mina Qiao<\/strong> of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies about the meanings behind coronavirus narratives taking us back, not forward. Rather than \u201c<em>neo-\u201d<\/em> or new, a \u201c<em>re-\u201d<\/em>:\u00a0<em>re<\/em>turning to the past,\u00a0<em>re<\/em>vealing existing problems, and\u00a0<em>re<\/em>claiming memories lost and lessons forgotten. In her 2021 short story collection\u00a0<em>Unsocial Distance<\/em>, Japanese author and poet Kanehara Hitomi returns to an earlier motif of rebellion against social norms through individual bodily practices. Especially in the age of lockdown, quarantine, and other government-implemented spatial restrictions, her characters cultivate their own space in an escapist attempt. Through unhealthy eating habits, abortion, and non-reproductive sex, her characters self-marginalize to evade socialization into a system of (re)productive labor. The coronavirus is a metaphor for a social structure from which individuals are unable to break free, extending a sociopolitical stance consistent with Kanehara\u2019s representations of the Japanese society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us via Zoom for a talk with Dr. Mina Qiao of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies about the meanings behind coronavirus narratives taking us back, not forward. 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In her 2021 short story collection\u00a0Unsocial Distance, Japanese<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/news\/oct-9-coronavirus-as-a-metaphor-in-japanese-covid-literature\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[95,19,93,94,82,81],"class_list":["post-4910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-coronavirus-literature","tag-japan","tag-japanese-literature","tag-mina-qiao","tag-uw-japan-events","tag-uw-japan-studies-program","region-japan","research-theme-japan"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>OCT 9: Coronavirus as a Metaphor in Japanese COVID Literature - UW Center for Japanese Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/japan\/news\/oct-9-coronavirus-as-a-metaphor-in-japanese-covid-literature\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OCT 9: Coronavirus as a Metaphor in Japanese COVID Literature - UW Center for Japanese Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Join us via Zoom for a talk with Dr. Mina Qiao of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies about the meanings behind coronavirus narratives taking us back, not forward. 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