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SUMMARY:Postfeminism\, Love\, and Work in Japanese Literature: A Reading of Hayashi Mariko's Novel Anego
DESCRIPTION:Postfeminism\, Love\, and Work in Japanese Literature: A Reading of Hayashi Mariko’s Novel Anego \nAn online public lecture conducted on Zoom. All are welcome.\nZoom registration is required. \nDate: 3 May 2021 (Monday)\nTime: 12:00 PM (HKT) \nZoom URL: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_crRTvsfTTC2VBs72Fs1WHA \nFacebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/480574219757523 \nSpeaker: Dr. Luciana Sanga (Visiting Assistant Professor\, Asian Languages and Cultures\, Northwestern University) \nHow do labor relations and romance intersect in the lives of contemporary Japanese women? \nHayashi Mariko’s novel Anego (Big Sis\, 2001-2003) offers one possible answer. The novel depicts the quest of an OL (office lady) for love and marriage. It is in fact an updated version of the “office lady novel\,” which typically ends with the heroine receiving a marriage proposal and exiting the paid\, full-time workforce. But instead of such an enthralling happy ending\, the protagonist of Anego never finds a husband and even loses her elite corporate job. At the end of the novel the protagonist is still single and employed\, this time as a contract worker. In this talk I argue that Hayashi’s novel normalizes a new postfeminist female identity complete not as a subject-in-love but as a subject-into-employment\, be that contingent and underpaid. \nLuciana Sanga is a visiting assistant professor in the Asian Languages and Cultures at Northwestern University. She holds a PhD in Japanese literature from Stanford University. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Review of Japanese Culture and Society and Japanese Language and Literature. She is currently working on her book manuscript titled The Production of Genre: Love Novels in Contemporary Japan. \nModerator: Dr. Grace En-Yi Ting (Gender Studies\, University of Hong Kong) \nThis event is organized as part of the Gender Studies Programme Spring 2021 Seminar Series at the University of Hong Kong. \nEnquiries: genderst@hku.hk or 39174182
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