DrYasuko Claremont

Project Opportunities

Title: Modern Japanese literature

Summary of opportunity:

Dr Yasuko Claremont has been teaching Japanese language, modern Japanese literature, comparative literature and Australian studies since 1984. She specializes in modern poetry and the works of Oe Kenzaburo, the Nobel laureate for literature in 1994. Her wide range of scholarship includes translation and research on Japanese journals of the 1920s (Josei, Shinseinen and Nyonin geijutsu), Nô drama and postwar reconciliation.

Opportunity synopsis:

Supervision

• Modern Japanese literature
• Modern Japanese poetry
• comparative literature
• postwar civil society

----------Current Research Projects----------

After initiating a successful conference entitled Wounds, Scars, and Healing: Civil Society and Postwar Pacific Basin Reconciliation, 29 September – 2 October 2015, which commemorated the 70^th anniversary since the end of the Asia-Pacific War, Dr Claremont has now been engaged in three major publications: (1) Conference proceedings to be published as an edited book, (2) A bi-lingual book of photographs and accompanying texts from the photographic exhibition on the theme of grassroots reconciliation activities, and (3) her monograph on The Asia-Pacific War in Southeast Asia 1941-1945: Its Impact and Legacy.

Six panels of the photographic exhibition showing reconciliation between former enemies will be displayed in the Asian Collection Reading Room at the National Library of Australia in 1 – 30 June 2016.