This talk will be in Japanese only.

Professor Kawamura is a specialist in colonial literature. His publications include Kankoku, Chôsen, Zainichi o yomu (Inpakuto Shuppankai, 2003). Ever since his debut as a literary critic in 1980, Kawamura has been opening up new vistas in the critical perspective on modern Japan. Whether writing about colonial literature or Japan's minority writers, Kawamura has revealed the central importance of cultural domains previously dismissed as marginal to modern Japanese history; his work has had a profound impact on the very definitions of "Japan" and "Japanese literature."