La Maison Universitaire France-Japon, en collaboration avec The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), a le plaisir de vous convier à la conférence de Yusuke MISU (professeur invité, Ritsumeikan University) sur le thème :
« Lin Hwai-min and Taiwanese Tongzhi Literature »
La conférence aura lieu le mardi 12 mars 2019 à 17h30, à la Maison Universitaire France-Japon (42a, Avenue de la Forêt Noire à Strasbourg).
Conférence tout public, en anglais
Entrée libre dans la limite des places disponibles
Résumé :
Lin Hwai-min, founder of leading Taiwanese modern dance company Cloud Gate, retired as artistic director in early 2019, making way for the next generation. Lin , though best-known as a dancer, has deep ties to the modernist literary journal Xiandai wenxue. Moreover, in discussions of Taiwanese literary history, the category of tongzhi literature has recently been receiving increased attention. The word “tongzhi” originally came into use in modern China as a title for comrades of the same political thinking. In the 1990s, in the Chinese-speaking world, the word “tongzhi” came into vogue with a new meaning that referred to homosexuals and sexual minorities in general. This trend is deeply linked to the Taiwanese democratisation process that began in 1987 with the lifting of martial law. As part of this democratisation process, there was a movement to restore the rights of the native Taiwanese people and social minorities who were oppressed during the Japanese colonial period and also under martial law by the Kuomintang. Moreover, the problems of sexual minorities began to receive attention as an extension of the women’s movement. Then, in the 1990s, a number of literary works depicting sexual minorities emerged, and these gradually came to be recognised as “tongzhi literature.
This communication attempts to question the category of tongzhi literature itself by rereading the novels of Lin Hwai-min.
