Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers Association and Japanese Cold War Dissent

IF 1.8 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Past & Present Pub Date : 2024-02-28 DOI:10.1093/pastj/gtad027
Christopher L Hill
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In October 1958, seven Japanese writers attended the first great cultural event of the Bandung era, the week-long Afro-Asian Writers Conference held in Tashkent, the capital of Soviet Uzbekistan. The ‘literary Bandung’ resulted in the creation of the Afro-Asian Writers Association (AAWA), a source of growing interest among historians of anti-colonialism for the institutions it founded to support a literary culture unmediated by London, Paris or New York, and thereby advance political solidarity among colonized and newly independent countries in the so-called Third World. The participation of writers from Japan, a former empire aligned with the United States, has no place in the historiography of post-war Japan, the Cold War or decolonization. Japanese participants and observers used the conference and the AAWA as a means of dissent equally unfamiliar in received narratives. They argued that commitment to the decolonization of Asia and Africa offered a means to resist amnesia about Japan’s colonialist history and obstruct its role in the American empire. The work of Japanese writers in Tashkent and after reveals a broader genealogy of Afro-Asianism and anti-colonial internationalism and opportunities for dissent made possible by crossing between post-imperial and postcolonial worlds in the Bandung era.
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塔什干的东京亚非作家协会与日本冷战时期的异议人士
1958 年 10 月,七位日本作家参加了万隆时代的第一次大型文化活动,即在苏联乌兹别克斯坦首都塔什干举行的为期一周的亚非作家会议。这次 "文学万隆会议 "促成了亚非作家协会(AAWA)的成立,反殖民主义历史学家对该协会的兴趣与日俱增,因为该协会成立的目的是支持不受伦敦、巴黎或纽约影响的文学文化,从而促进所谓的第三世界殖民地国家和新独立国家之间的政治团结。日本作为一个与美国结盟的前帝国,其作家的参与在战后日本、冷战或非殖民化史学中没有任何地位。日本与会者和观察员利用这次会议和 AAWA 作为表达异议的一种手段,而这种异议在公认的叙事中同样是陌生的。他们认为,对亚洲和非洲非殖民化的承诺为抵制日本殖民主义历史的健忘症和阻挠日本在美利坚帝国中的作用提供了一种手段。日本作家在塔什干及其后的作品揭示了亚非主义和反殖民国际主义更广泛的谱系,以及万隆时代跨越后帝国和后殖民世界所带来的异议机会。
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