Přednášky o japonské literatuře












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            Ústav Dálného východu Filozofické fakulty UK/Japonská studia, srdečně zve na přednášky o j

            literatuře, které se konají 6. května 2010 (FF UK, Celetná 20, místnost č. 423).
            15. 50 - 17. 20 Prof. Joshua Mostow (UBC, Canada):
            Authority and Allusion:The Lovesong of Lord Takafusa and Its llustrated Scroll

            This talk examines the Takafusa sh?, a narrative one-hundred poem sequence describing the 
            affair between Fujiwara no Takafusa (1142-1209) Lady Kogô and Emperor Takakura. Takafusa s
            story by comparing it to that between Ariwara no Narihira, the Nijô Empress, and Emperor S

            Ise monogatari. The speaker will then turn to the illustrated scroll pictorializing Takafu
            Takafusa’kyô tsuya-kotoba emaki, made during the time of Emperor Fushimi (1265-1317), and 

            possible reasons for its production.
            Joshua S. Mostow is Professor of Asian Studies at The University of British Columbia. This
            is affiliated with SOAS, University of London, as a Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow of th

            Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures. His new translation of
            17. 30 - 19. 00 Prof. Sharalyn Orbaugh (UBC, Canada)
            Killer Kitsch: Kamishibai and Japanese propaganda from 1930-1945

            Kamishibai literally "paper drama", is a form of storytelling that originated in Japanese 
            in the 12th century, where monks used e-maki (picture scrolls) to convey stories with mora
            mostly illiterate audience. It endured as a storytelling method for centuries, but is perh

            for its revival in the 1920s through the 1950s. The gaito kamishibaiya, or kamishibai stor
            from village to village on a bicycle equipped with a small stage. On arrival, the storytel
            wooden clappers, called hyoshigi, to announce his arrival. Children who bought candy from 

            got the best seats in front of the stage. Once an audience assembled, the storyteller told
            using a set of illustrated boards, inserted into the stage and withdrawn one by one as the
            The stories were often serials and new episodes were told on each visit to the village.

            The revival of kamishibai can be tied to the global depression of the late 1920s when it o
            by which an unemployed man could earn a small income. The tradition was largely supplanted
            of television in the late 1950s but has recently enjoyed a revival in Japanese libraries a

            schools. Some Americans have translated traditional kamishibai into English and offer them
            Balanced Literacy"teaching philosophy.
            Sharalyn Orbaugh is Professor of Asian Studies and Women's & Gender Studies at the Univers

            Columbia. She is a specialist in modern Japanese narrative and visual culture, including p
            media such as manga and anime. Recent publications include Japanese Fiction of the Allied 
            Vision, Embodiment, Identity (Brill, 2007), Raced Bodies and the Public Sphere in Ichikawa

            Tokyo Olympiad (2007), and Emotional Infectivity: The Japanese Cyborg and the Limits of th
            During her year as a Senior Research Associate at the Sainsbury Institute, she plans to co
            in-progress research projects. The first concerns kamishibai, a performance art form popul

            to the early 1970s. The direct ancestor of serialized manga and anime, kamishibai was a st
            for children that combined picture, script, and performance. During the war, kamishibai wa
            extensively as a propaganda tool, and not just for children. Her research project begins b

            characteristics of kamishibai as a medium, with a particular focus on the interplay betwee
            Other aspects of the research include a consideration of kamishibai?s role in the construc
            space in the 1930s and 1950s, its role in the propaganda machine during the Fifteen Year W

            made of kamishibai by SCAP during the Allied Occupation, 1945-1952. The second book-length
            Japanese Cyborg and the Limits of the Human, which explores the multitude of popular cultu
            Japan, from 1850 to the present, that feature cyborgs (organic-machinic hybrids) or other 

            produced sentient beings. One particular focus is the figure of the cyborg in manga and an
            the ramifications of the ways cyborgs are depicted visually.
            pozvánka [ URL "http://udlv.ff.cuni.cz/cz/japan/files/pozvanka.pdf"]