Evan Chaloupka, “Theorizing Disability, Access, and Intimacy in Twentieth Century American Fiction”

アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター（CPAS）では、4月4日に講演者としてEvan Chaloupka氏をお招きし、CPASセミナー「Theorizing Disability, Access, and Intimacy in Twentieth Century American Fiction」を開催いたします。

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CPAS Seminar, Globalizing American Studies
Center for Pacific and American Studies, U-Tokyo

“Theorizing Disability, Access, and Intimacy in Twentieth Century American Fiction”

Characters with cognitive differences appeared in American literature long before the clinical awakening to neurodivergence; and so their creators were tasked with depicting them without contemporary classifications or labels. These writers responded to questions that authors of disability literature continue to face today. How and to what extent should disabled cognition show up on the page? When does imaginative attention become creative exploitation? With close readings of writers like Jean Toomer, Pearl S. Buck, and Saul Bellow, this talk examines how authors deployed novel storytelling strategies at key moments in American literary and cultural history to bring readers into new relationships with cognitive disability and mental difference. Modeling a new mode of rhetorical reading, it demonstrates how different storytelling techniques can enable the intimacies of fiction—however distant writer, reader, and character might at first seem from one another.

講演：Evan Chaloupka (Fulbright Scholar, Study of the United States Lecturing Program, the University of Tokyo)
討論：木原健次（津田塾大学）
会場：東京大学駒場Iキャンパス18号館コラボレーションルーム2
使用言語：英語（通訳なし）
主催：東京大学アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター
共催：東京大学グローバル地域研究機構
問い合わせ先：res@cpas.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp