The East Asia Program Contemporary Japanese Thought speaker series is pleased to present our third and final talk of the semester featuring:

Brian Hurley, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, Film & Culture, Syracuse University.

The Fiction of the Free market: Literature and Neoliberalism in 1980’s Japan

This presentation thinks through the relations among neoliberalism, literature, and Japan in the context of the global 1980s.  Blending conceptual reflection with close reading, it points to an aesthetics of the neoliberal condition in the early fiction of the Japanese novelist Murakami Haruki.  Through this analysis, the talk pursues a broader dialogue with recent scholarship linking economic perspectives to humanities inquiry.