'Passing, Posing, Persuasion' Book Talk and Launch

December 6, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Center for Korean Studies Auditorium

Please join us for a conversation on the recently published edited volume Passing, Posing, Persuasion: Cultural Production and Coloniality in Japan’s East Asian Empire (University of Hawai’i Press, 2023). Edited by Christina Yi, Andre Haag, and Catherine Ryu, the volume interrogates the intersections between cultural production, identity, and persuasive messaging that idealized inclusion and unity across Japan’s East Asian empire (1895–1945). Addressing cultural artifacts that range from Meiji adaptations of Shakespeare and interwar mass media to wartime propaganda films, the collected chapters work together to emphasize the plurality and heterogeneity of empire, together with the contradictions and tensions of its ideologies of race, nation, and ethnicity. The event will begin with an introduction by editor Christina Yi (UBC), who will discuss the volume’s publication trajectory and situate it within a larger consideration of the state of the field of Japanese(-language) studies. Andre Haag will then speak on his own contribution to the edited volume. David Krolikoski, Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, will serve as a moderator. Co-sponsored by the UHM Center for Japanese Studies & Center for Korean Studies


Event Sponsor
East Asian Languages and Literatures, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Andre Haag, (808) 956-8940, andreh@hawaii.edu, , Passing, Posing, Persuasion (PDF)

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