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DESCRIPTION:In some sense\, every tale—and every poem—tells a story that’s 
 never been told in the exact same way. But some tales and poems\, under cer
 tain circumstances\, cannot be told or are forbidden to be told for reasons
  that are sometimes not clear or are clearly political. Recently\, it’s bec
 ome more commonplace for the tales of people who belong to sexual minoritie
 s to be expressed in Japan and in Japanese\, but proportionately\, literatu
 re\, and especially translated literature\, has a long way to go to catch u
 p with the actual situation on the ground. Given the number of books of lit
 erary fiction\, and poetry to a lesser extent\, published in Japan every ye
 ar and given the number of queer people who live in Japan\, it’s my persona
 l opinion that there are a lot more tales that should be told forthrightly 
 and publicly.\n\n         This talk will not be a theoretical one—that is\,
  one based in literary theory. The story of collecting literature that expr
 esses queer peoples’ lives is a personal one for me in the sense that I’m q
 ueer and I’ve spent my entire adult life studying and teaching “Japan.” Tho
 se are my only qualifications. But considering the fact that I’m the only n
 on-Japanese person in the world who has twice anthologized the poetry and p
 rose of Japanese queer people\, I want to tell this story from a personal p
 oint of view. I will talk about the circumstances under which these two pro
 jects came about\, the kinds of parameters I considered when selecting lite
 rary works for both anthologies\, some of the people who I met along the wa
 y\, and finally the actual works selected—especially for the second antholo
 gy. I hope to tease the audience with my “summaries” so that its members fe
 el inclined to tell others about it or to purchase it themselves when it is
  finally published.\n\nFlyer\n\n\nThis event is part of the Ito Center LGBT
 Q Studies Speakers Series.\n\nBio\nProf. Stephen D. Miller (University of M
 assachusetts Amherst) teaches courses on pre-modern Japanese literature\, J
 apanese Buddhism and literature\, gay/queer literature and culture in Japan
 \, and translation. A full bio is available here.
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LOCATION:Doheny Memorial Library (DML)\, East Asian Seminar Room (110C)
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SUMMARY:Tales That Haven’t Been (and Sometimes Can’t Be) Told
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URL:https://calendar.usc.edu/event/literary_anthologies_of_m2m_experience_r
 epresentation_and_identity_in_20th_and_21st_c_japan
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