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JF-GJS Fellow Talk Series「Bumi; or, the Metabolic Realism of Pramoedya Ananta Toer」が開催されました
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On May 12 th , Dr. Reuven Pinnata, Assistant Professor from Northern Illinois University, delivered a talk titled, “Bumi; or, the Metabolic Realism of Pramoedya Ananta Toer.” Part of his latest book project, Dr. Pinnata focused on the tetralogy of the famed, Indonesian postcolonial novelist, Pramoedya Ananta Toer. Known as the “Buru Quarter,” Pramoedya’s four novels, This Earth of Mankind, Child of All Nations, Footsteps, and House of Glass, were written while the author was a political prisoner under the Suharto regime for his communist and leftist literary activities. With a keen attention to history of the nyai, or concubinage genre across Asia, Dr. Pinnata argued that what we see in the Buru Quartet is a form of “metabolic realism,” wherein the strong female characters of the novels are either exploited under colonial capitalism, akin to the natural resources of a place like Indonesia under the Dutch, or rise up as a kind of natural feedback loop in response to that very domination. By treating literature as an archive, and, as one audience member suggested, a form of public commons of resistance and refuge, Dr. Pinnata emphasized the importance of literature as a tool of analysis within Global Asian Studies, offering nuanced, psychological, even contradictory perspectives often overlooked by other disciplines.
開催情報
日時：2026年5月12日（火）14:00-15:30（日本時間）
会場：Conference Room 1 (304), Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo; Online (Zoom)
題目：Bumi; or, the Metabolic Realism of Pramoedya Ananta Toer
講演者：Dr. Reuven Pinnata, Assistant Professor, Northern Illinois University
司会・討論：Dr. Tony Scott, JF-GJS Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
使用言語：English
主催：JF-GJS Initiative, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo
登録種別：研究活動記録
登録日時：FriMay1514:55:312026
登録者 ：GS事務局・神林
掲載期間：20260515 - 20260814
当日期間：20260512 - 20260512
