Understanding Your Neighbors: Exploring Narratives of Asian Society in Contemporary Literature

  • アジア・文化創造協働助成
採択年度
平成30 (2018) 年度
助成額
JPY 1,964,447
活動国・地域
インドネシア, マレーシア, 日本

Can literature heal people’s trauma after great disasters? How do we develop a cultural bridge in Asian countries though literary festivals and initiatives? Led by the Makassar International Writers Festival in Eastern Indonesia, this project has explored narratives written by Japanese, eastern Indonesian and Malaysian authors. We have explored various themes in literary works of participating writers and speakers in order to understand how people/readers in Asian countries understand people living in neighboring countries. As Japan is always portrayed as a success model of a developed country in Asian region, Malaysian and Indonesian authors have explored paradoxical situation of Japan in their literary works. From Fukushima, a region that gained worldwide attention after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, we learned about a grass-root movement to heal the society from trauma in a form of a festival named Festival of The Future. Japanese cultural activist and prominent pert, Mr. Ryoichi Wago participated at Makassar International Writers Festival and shared his stories on how literature has become an effective medium to unite the local people in Fukushima after the 2011 disaster, meanwhile Indonesian and Malaysian young writers have explored their Asian identity through contemporary poetry and narratives.

関連する国/地域
日本, インドネシア, マレーシア
協力団体/協力者
和合亮一(未来の祀りふくしま)
松井和久(Matsui Glocal LLC)
Rumah Ripta Malaysia

申請団体より

We plan to maintain our relationship with Fukushima’s Festival of The Future and Ripta Malaysia beyond this project. We are glad the opportunity to collaborate that was granted by The Japan Foundation Asia Center has increased our self-confidence as a small cultural organization to collaborate with other organizations in Asia. We do hope more and more organizations in Eastern Indonesian will apply for this grant.

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