The Diaries of a Race Traitor: The Teenage "Terrorist" in Hoshino Tomoyuki's Uragiri Nikki
Speaker: Adrienne Hurley
Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literature, University of Iowa
The award-winning contemporary Japanese novelist Hoshino Tomoyuki draws on two high-profile news stories from the spring of 1997 to craft a fictional expiation for First World privilege in his novella Uragiri Nikki ("The Treason Diaries"). Professor Hurley will discuss Hoshino's bold exploration of the rage such privilege engenders even among those who might appear to be its beneficiaries.
Adrienne Carey Hurley is Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature at the University of Iowa and Director of the University of Iowa Youth Empowerment Academy (YEA!)
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