2015 JELL Forum on Space and Literature: A Roundtable “Why Space beyond Time Means Something in the Literary Studies?” = 2015 JELL Forum on Space and Literature: A Roundtable “Why Space beyond Time Means Something in the Literary Studies?”

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

In the past half-century, our sense of space as physical space has been undergoing fundamental changes. From physical setting (place, region, environment, locale, landscape) to socioeconomic and political geographies (slavery, occupation, colonialism, imperialism, globalization, militarism, tourism), to lived experiences and identity categories (private, public, gender, race, religion, sexuality, class), space as an organization of society embodies the overlapping, relational networks of human societies. National boundaries are destabilized by global forces such as terrorism, climate change, the eventual depletion of fossil fuels, and the volatility of the global economy. The increasing mobility of people and cultures destabilizes the connection between geographic space and cultural identity. The pervasive influence of technology (such as robotics and computer networks) destabilizes our very definitions of physical space and the environment that we inhabit. In this context, the JELL editorial collective choose the theme “Space and Literature” along with its subtheme, “Why Space beyond Time Means Something in the Literary Studies?,” and explore space in its multiple, simultaneous, and plural manifestations, histories of practices and encounters of/with/in space and the theoretical and aesthetic articulations, disillusioned and empowering, that are constructed and mobilized around space. For this, 2015 JELL Forum on Space and Literature was held at 14: 50-16: 30 pm, at Busan-Bexco on Saturday, December 12, 2016. The Chair of the session was Prof. Robert Tally, Texas State University. Seven out of all the keynote speakers at the 2015 ELLAK Convention were invited to this roundtable on Space and Literature. Their dialogues during this roundtable were videotaped and transcribed, and the editor has slightly edited the transcription to change the awkward expressions in readable context. Biographical data and the titles and abstracts of all the discussants/keynote speakers can be found at this end of this section. The purpose of this roundtable is to extract the core of the arguments of the keynote speakers.