Date and Time: March 3rd, 2016 16:00 – 18:00 Place: Tonan tei (Room No. 201), CSEAS, Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Speaker: Dr. Shu-mei Shih, Professor of Comparative Literature, Asian Language and Cultures, and Asian American Studies at UCLA Title: Race and Relation: the Global Sixties in the South of the South Abstract: This essay deploys “relational comparison” to address the ways in which texts from different parts of the world are related to each other through their partaking of and representation of world historicalevents. It constructs an arc of literary texts that are not distinguished by their presumed canonicity, whether Eurocentric or otherwise, but by their worldliness. It […]