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NAKAMURA Asami
Graduate School of Intercultural Studies / Department of Cultural-Interaction
Associate Professor

Researcher basic information

■ Research Keyword
  • nostalgia
  • science fiction
  • dystopia
  • utopia
■ Research Areas
  • Humanities & social sciences / Literature - British/English-languag

Research activity information

■ Paper
  • (A Failure of) Homecoming in George Orwell's Coming Up for Air and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing
    Asami Nakamura
    Lead, Mar. 2024, Raymond Williams Studies, (12) (12), 47 - 58, Japanese
    Symposium

  • The Issue of Sisterhood in Hulu's TV Adaptation of _The Handmaid's Tale _
    中村麻美
    Mar. 2023, 言語文化, (40) (40)
    [Invited]

  • [書評] ローズ・マコーリー著『その他もろもろ――ある予言譚』ディストピア的想像力の多様性――「失われた」ディストピア小説の重要性、そしてディストピア研究の奥深さ
    中村麻美
    Lead, Apr. 2021, 図書新聞, (3490) (3490), Japanese

  • On the Uses of Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro's _Never Let Me Go_
    Asami Nakamura
    This article examines the uses of nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro's dystopian novel Never Let Me Go. Set against a backdrop of pastoral England in the late 1990s, this fictional memoir of a clone named Kathy H. provides a poignant account of clones who are fated for compulsory organ donation and premature death. While Never Let Me Go can be seen as a nostalgia-inducing, feel-good commodity, its main function is to present a philosophy of reclaiming and repurposing what has been given through remembrance. The article also focuses on subjects who fail to use nostalgia as a therapeutic tool to counter despair, with special attention to an original character added in the Japanese television adaptation. To further augment this point, the article explores the possibility of queer nostalgia in Kathy's recollection of Miss Emily, Madame, and Ruth. This in-depth analysis of (queer) failed subjects tackles the question of how memories with rather negative valence, when remembered with endearment can operate as an acknowledgment of the act of wishing otherwise. The importance of Never Let Me Go as an affective cartography of hope is paramount in that it points to somewhere between despair and submission. *This article is based on and expands a chapter of the author’s PhD thesis. *This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 19K13119.
    Mar. 2021, Science Fiction Studies, 48(1) (1), 62 - 76, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Reading Rape Culture in George Orwell’s _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ and Naomi Alderman’s _The Power_
    Mar. 2020, Raymond Williams Studies, 9, 59 - 77

  • Nostalgia as a Means of Oppression, Resistance and Submission: A Study of Dystopian and Homecoming Novels
    Asami Nakamura
    Apr. 2018, English
    [Refereed]
    Doctoral thesis

  • [Review] Carlos Gutierrez-Jones, _Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction_
    Asami Nakamura
    Lead, Apr. 2017, Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 46.1(126) (126), 99 - 102, English

  • “Who Controls the Past Controls the Future: Who Controls the Present Controls the Past”: Nostalgia as a Phenomenon in Dystopian Novels
    Asami Nakamura
    Birkbeck, University of London, Jul. 2016, Dandelion Journal, 7(1) (1), 1 - 11, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Adapting George Orwell’s _Nineteen Eighty-Four_
    Asami Nakamura
    University of Lancaster, Jul. 2015, The Luminary, 6, 41 - 55, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • “I’m a Refugee From the Past”: The Function of Nostalgia in _The Handmaid’s Tale_
    Asami Nakamura
    University of Warwick, Jul. 2015, Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 2(1) (1), 111 - 127, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • ディストピアの「外部」――舞台版『一九八四年』
    中村麻美
    May 2014, オーウェル研究, (33) (33), Japanese
    Scientific journal

  • Margaret Atwood’s _The Handmaid’s Tale_ as a Multidimensional Critique of Rebellion
    Asami Nakamura
    Sophia University, Mar. 2013, The Journal of American and Canadian Studies, 30(30) (30), 21 - 47, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • Ruins of Hope: Dystopian Novels in the Twentieth Century
    Asami Nakamura
    Mar. 2012, English
    [Refereed]
    Master thesis

  • Ruins of Hope: _Brave New World_, _Island_, _We_, and _Nineteen Eighty-Four_
    Asami Nakamura
    東京大学大学院英文学研究会, Oct. 2011, リーディング, (32) (32), 66 - 75, English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

  • “This Thing of Darkness” as “The Monster of the Id”: _The Tempest_, _Forbidden Planet_ and Science Fictions
    Asami Nakamura
    東京大学大学院人文社会系研究科欧米系文化研究会（広域英語圏言語文化・現代文芸論）, Apr. 2011, Studies in Adaptations UT, (2) (2), English
    [Refereed]
    Scientific journal

■ MISC
■ Books And Other Publications
  • Reading Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Beyond Feminist Dystopia
    加藤めぐみ, 中村麻美, 西あゆみ, 奥畑豊, 安保夏絵, 三村尚央, 小川公代, 生駒夏美, 渡部桃子, 小谷真理, 髙村峰生, 石倉綾乃, シュテファン・ヴューラー
    Joint editor, 水声社, Dec. 2023, ISBN: 9784801006850

  • Reading George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: From Dystopia to Post-truth
    秦邦生, Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
    Joint work, 家父長制批判としての『一九八四年』？, 水声社, May 2021, Japanese, ISBN: 4801005748

  • 『オーウェルと旅』
    佐藤義夫編
    Joint work, 『一九八四年』ユートピアの旅, 音羽書房鶴見書店, Nov. 2013, Japanese, ISBN: 9784755302763
    Scholarly book

■ Lectures, oral presentations, etc.
  • Grieving for 'Cyborgs': Klara and the Sun (2021) and 'Saying Goodbye to Yang' (2018)/After Yang (2021)
    中村麻美
    The Asian American Literature Association Japan 154th Meeting, Jul. 2024, Japanese
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • When We Become Waste: 'Saying Goodbye to Yang' (2008)/After Yang (2021) and Klara and the Sun (2021)
    Asami Nakamura
    Towards Digital Justice: Transcultural Perspectives on Digital Inequality @Oxford Brookes University, Jun. 2024, English
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • Do Cyborg Daughters Dream of Their Bodies?: Disruptive/Disrupted Subjectivities in The Membranes and Klara and the Sun
    Asami Nakamura, Pei Zhang
    Disruptive Imaginations (Science Fiction Research Association, Gesellschaft für Fantastikforschung), Aug. 2023, English
    Oral presentation

  • 『空気をもとめて』における帰郷（の失敗？）――アトウッド『浮かびあがる』と比較しながら
    ジョージ・オーウェル生誕120 周年記念イベント「暗闇のなかの希望」, Mar. 2023
    [Invited]

  • Issues of Empathy in the TV Adaptation of _The Handmaid’s Tale_
    トランスレーション・アダプテーション・インターテクスチュアリティ 2022 『時代を映すアダプテーション』, Mar. 2022
    [Invited]

  • Feeling otherwise: The Possibilities of Posthuman Empathy
    中村麻美
    Workshop Series: Posthuman Perspectives, Feb. 2022, Japanese, 0001 4.jpg, No password
    [Invited]
    添付ファイルのURL

  • “Diversity and Dystopian Fiction: Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake and Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower”
    SDGs（持続可能な開発目標）と人文学（3）――文学に探る, Jan. 2022
    [Invited]

  • “Queer Nostalgia in ‘San Junipero’ (2016)”
    Asami Nakamura
    Feminist/Queer Utopias & Dystopias -- Alternative Worlds Imagined Through Non-normative Desires and Bodies, Mar. 2021, English, 010621_FUQD_Poster 英語.pdf, No password
    Oral presentation
    添付ファイルのURL

  • Aestheticised Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s _Never Let Me Go_
    Asami Nakamura
    Splintered Memories: Life in the Glasshouse, Mar. 2019, English, London Science Fiction Research Community, The Keynes Library at Birkbeck, London, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Feminisation and Rape Culture in George Orwell's_Nineteen Eighty-Four_ and Three Feminist Dystopias
    中村麻美
    オーウェル『一九八四年』と ディストピアのリアル ―刊行70周年記念シンポジウム, Mar. 2019, Japanese, 日本女子大学文学部・大学院文学研究科学術交流, 日本女子大学目白キャンパス, International conference
    [Invited]
    Oral presentation

  • 『1984年』におけるノスタルジア
    中村麻美
    オーウェル会, Jul. 2018, Japanese, 日本オーウェル協会, 早稲田大学, Domestic conference
    Oral presentation

  • The Politics of Survival and Suicide in George Orwell’s _Nineteen Eighty-Four_ and Margaret Atwood’s _The Handmaid’s Tale_
    Asami Nakamura
    Survival Conference, Jul. 2017, English, University of Lancaster, University of Lancaster, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Nostalgia as a Means of Oppression, Resistance and Submission
    Asami Nakamura
    Current Research in Speculative Fiction, Jun. 2017, English, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • The Politics of Nostalgia in Katharine Burdekin's _Swastika Night_
    Asami Nakamura
    Dystopia Now, May 2017, English, Birkbeck, University of London, Birkbeck, University of London, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Place, Human, Body
    Asami Nakamura, Pei Zhang
    Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities 2015, Dec. 2015, English, The University of London’s School of Advanced Study (SAS) in partnership with the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the British Academy and the Wellcome Trust, University of Liverpool, International conference
    Poster presentation

  • The Function of Nostalgia in Kazuo Ishiguro’s _Never Let Me Go_
    Asami Nakamura
    Brave New Worlds: The Dystopia in Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Apr. 2015, English, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • I’m a refugee from the past’: the Function of Nostalgia in _The Handmaid’s Tale_
    Asami Nakamura
    SF/F Now, Aug. 2014, English, University of Warwick, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Adapting _Nineteen Eighty-Four_
    Asami Nakamura
    Visualizing Fantastika: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Jul. 2014, English, University of Lancaster, University of Lancaster, International conference
    Oral presentation

  • Dystopia as Nostalgia: George Orwell’s _Nineteen Eighty-Four_
    Asami Nakamura
    Current Research in Speculative Fiction, Jun. 2014, English, University of Liverpool, University of Liverpool, International conference
    Oral presentation

■ Affiliated Academic Society
  • Asian American Literature Association in Japan
    Apr. 2024 - Present

  • IMNN international media and nostalgia network
    Mar. 2024 - Present

  • ASLE-Japan 文学・環境学会

  • 日本英文学会

  • オーウェル会

■ Works
  • Suicide and Contemporary Science Fiction by Carlos Gutierrez-Jones
    Apr. 2017

■ Research Themes
  • 英語圏SFにおけるテクノ・オリエンタリズムの諸相――ジェンダーと人種の交差を中心に
    中村 麻美
    日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業, 若手研究, 神戸大学, Apr. 2024 - Mar. 2027

  • The Temporality of Social Criticism: Nostalgia and Its Paradox in Dystopian Fiction and Science Fiction
    中村 麻美
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Rikkyo University, 01 Apr. 2019 - 31 Mar. 2023
    本研究はユートピア・ディストピア文学やSFを、時間論や情動論、そしてジェンダー・セクシュアリティ理論を通して探求するものである。本年度は、主にフェミニスト・ユートピア／ディストピアにカテゴライズされる作品群、あるいは様々な作品のフェミニスト的読解に関する研究を進めた。さらに、これまでのノスタルジアに加え、共感性（エンパシー）をトピックとして追加することで、ノスタルジアを含む情動伝達を通した自他関係や共感的コミュニティにおける権力関係が、SFにおいてどのように異化されるか、という問題に取り組んだ。 フェミニストSFに関しては、1960～1970年代に英語圏で発表された主要作品における複数の時間性、性暴力表象、狂気とガスライティング（心理的虐待の手法）の問題を分析した。またポスト・アポカリプス作品の研究も進めており、現在マーガレット・アトウッドの『マッド・アダム』三部作におけるノスタルジアの諸相を、同著者による『侍女の物語』、『誓願』と関連付けながら明らかとする論文、そして、フェミニスト・ディストピアに関する小論も執筆中だ。これらの論文の発表媒体は決定しており、発表時期は来年度後半に予定されている。 共感性に関しては、まず、共感性概念や、自閉症の歴史を辿りながら、共感性が如何に排他性を生み出すか、という論点に関して、フィリップ・K・ディックやアーシュラ・K・ルグィンの作品を分析し、口頭発表を行った。ニューロ・ダイバーシティ概念と文学批評に関するオンライン学会にも参加し、近年における本主題の発展について知見を深めると共に、その重要性を再認識した。加えて『侍女の物語』のTVドラマ版を共感性の観点から分析し口頭発表を行った。ドラマ版が人種の問題を看過していること、また、執拗なトラウマ的表象が引き起こす共感疲労が、作品の社会批判性を減じてしまう問題などを論じた。

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