Study Group: Kyoko Matsunaga / Atomic Study

Territory Acknowledgement

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March 10, 2018
3:00 PM–4:30 PM

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Join us for an afternoon convening where we will review Atomic bomb literature, documentary film, and songs of protest selected by Kyoko Matsunaga, whose research has focused on the ways in which colonial processes continue to intersect with communities in proximity to nuclear sites of past and present.

This Study Group is presented in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery as part of ATOMIC Study, a series of free events presented in association with the exhibition BOMBHEAD.

Kyoko Matsunaga

221A acknowledges that the area called Vancouver is within the unceded Indigenous territories belonging to the Musqueam, Skxwú7mesh-ulh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and Tsleil-Watututh peoples. 221A recognizes that the colony of British Columbia was created through organized dispossession and colonial violence. 221A seeks to shift its organizational practices to work together with Indigenous people to end ongoing violence, disposession and displacement.

Kyoko Matsunaga is an associate professor at Kobe City University of Foreign Studies in Japan and a former Fulbright fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She specializes in American Indigenous literature, nuclear/atomic literature and environmental literature. Her essays have appeared in such books and journals as Ecocriticism in Japan (Lexington Books, 2017), Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance: Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), and Southwestern American Literature. Currently, as a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, she is completing a manuscript for a book project entitled Beyond Nuclear Apocalypse and Native Survivance: Nuclear Representations in American Indigenous Literature (nyuukuria apokaripusu e no chousen: hokubei senjuumin sakka to kaku no naratibu).

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Study Group: Kyoko Matsunaga / Atomic Study

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