主題：
Life in the Aftermath: Reading Kimura Yūsuke’s Sacred Cesium Ground, Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, and Strugatsky Brothers’ Roadside Picnic

要旨：
Life in the aftermath of disasters is never clean. Not only given the many challenges, some verging on the insoluble, of cleaning up wastelands left behind. Living in the aftermath is never clean in terms of broken social relations, psychological trauma, cultural dislocation, and political upheaval. Not only is the relationship to society and culture affected; the relation of the lifeworld to the environment as well becomes ruptured. In this lecture, my aim is to explore life in the aftermath of disaster as explored in three novels: Kimura Yūsuke’s Sacred Cesium Ground, Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, and Strugatsky Brothers’ Roadside Picnic. In each of these literary working through the mourning and melancholia of aftermath, disaster unfolds slowly without a clean demarcation of a terminal point, or end. In each of these works attests to the “slow disaster” of aftermath; once the dust settles, the veritable challenge of living in suspended animation, in a time of aftermath seemingly without end, begins. 

登壇者：
ニコラス・ド・ウォレン（Nicolas de Warren）氏
ペンシルバニア州立大学哲学・ユダヤ研究教授

日時：2024年5月21日（火） 19:00-20:30

場所：東京大学駒場キャンパス101号館 EAAセミナー室

使用言語：英語

主催：東京大学東アジア藝文書院（EAA）