MURATA SAYAKA AND AN AFTER-THE-END-OF-THE-WORLD QUEER FUTURE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.20873.2544Abstract
A reading of Murata Sayaka’s Vanishing World is presented, at the same time that it tries to destabilize a certainty attributed to the novel as a queer reading of reproductive future, in which the selected criticism seems to presuppose a critical positioning of the novel that solves, one way or another, issues of reproduction and gender violence. What is suggested, when re-presenting the novel and paraphrased points from the critical fortune chosen for dialogue, is the certainty in their readings and interpretations of the place of literature in the current world as a critical representative of what is seen, when reading the book in question as a speculative fiction that problematizes, for the future, the present. By suggesting that the growth of violence in Vanishing World, in fact, not only depends on, but also worsens, gender violence, an attempt is made to rethink the place of queerness in the critical fortune's issues, suggesting what is understood as the End of the World, and why is it necessary to defend, at least, taking it positively into consideration.
References
ALZATE, Juliana Buriticá; YOSHIO, Hitomi. Reimagining the Past, Present, and the Future of Reproductive Bodies in Contemporary Japanese Women’s Fiction: Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Sayaka Murata’s Vanishing World. In: CAPO, B. W.; LAZZARI, L. (Eds.). The Palgrave Handbook of Reproductive Justice and Literature. Suíça: Springer Nature, 2022, p. 465-486.
BLISS, James. Hope Against Hope: Queer Negativity, Black Feminist Theorizing, and Reproduction without Futurity. Mosaic, v. 48, n. 1, p. 83-98, 2015.
BUTLER, Judith. O clamor de Antígona: parentesco entre a vida e a morte. Tradução de André Cechinel. Florianópolis: Editora da UFSC, 2014.
COLEBROOK, Claire. Slavery and the Trumpocene: It’s Not the End of the World. The Oxford Literary Review, v. 41, n. 1, p. 40-50, 2019.
COLEBROOK, Claire. Can theory end the world? Symploke, v. 29, n. 1-2, p. 521-534, 2021.
COULDRY, Nick; MEJIAS, Ulises A. The Costs of Connection: How Data Is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating It for Capitalism. Redwood City: Stanford University Press, 2019.
DERRIDA, Jacques. No apocalypse, not now: à toute vitesse, sept missiles, sept missives. Psyché: inventions de l'autre. Paris: Galilée, 1987, p. 363-386.
DERRIDA, Jacques. Gramatologia. Tradução de Miriam Schnaiderman e Renato J. Ribeiro. Campinas: Perspectiva, 2013.
FERREIRA DA SILVA, Denise. A dívida impagável. Tradução de Amilcar Packer e Pedro Daher. São Paulo: casa do povo, 2019.
GREWELL, Greg. Colonizing the universe: Science Fictions then, now and in the (imagined) future. Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature, v. 55, n. 2, p. 25-47, 2001.
HARADA, Kazue. Feminist “Failed” Reproductive Futures in Speculative Fiction: Ōhara Mariko, Murata Sayaka, and Ueda Sayuri. In: COPELAND, Rebecca (Ed.). Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers. Tóquio: Amsterdam University Press, 2022, p. 33-50.
HIROSHIMA, Kiyoshi. 現代日本人口政策史小論(2). 国民優生法における人口の質政策と量政策. 人口問題研究, n. 160, p. 61-77, 1981.
HOVHANNISYAN, Astghik. Preventing the birth of 'inferior offspring': eugenic sterilizations in postwar Japan. Japan Forum, p. 1-19, 2020.
IIDA, Yuko. 村田沙耶香とジェンダー・クィア─『コンビニ人間』、『地球星人』、その他の創作. Juncture, 超域的日本文化研究, n. 10, p. 48-63, 2019.
KERSLAKE, Patricia. Science Fiction and Empire. Liverpool: Liverpool university Press, 2007.
MARCOS, Cristina M.; MENDONÇA, Renata L. A disjunção mãe/mulher a partir de uma prática de conversação. Ágora, v. 23, n.1, p. 94-102, 2020.
MCNEILL, David. Mind the Gender Gap: Kawakami Mieko, Murata Sayaka, Feminism and Literature in Japan. The Asia-Pacific Journal, v. 18, n. 1, p. 1-9, 2020.
MELO-NASCIMENTO, Marina Teresinha de. Ryōsai Kenbo e o Mangá Shōjo: o mangá para meninas como construtor e propagador do ideal da "Boa Esposa e Mãe Sábia". Dissertação em Letras (Mestrado em Estudos Japoneses). 141f. São Paulo: Universidade de São Paulo, Departamento de Letras Orientais, 2020. Orientador: Wataru Kikuchi.
MURATA, Sayaka. Um casamento limpo. Tradução de Rita Kohl. Granta Brasil, v. 13, p. 11-28, 2015.
MURATA, Sayaka. 消滅世界. Tóquio: Kadokawa, 2018. Edição Bunko.
MURATA, Sayaka. Querida konbini. Tradução de Rita Kohl. São Paulo: Estação Liberdade, 2022.
OTSUBO, Sumiko. Between two worlds: Yamanouchi Shigeo and Eugenics in Early Twentieth-Century Japan. Annals of Science, v. 62, n. 2, p. 205-231, 2005.
OTSUBO, Sumiko; BARTHOLOMEW, James R. Eugenics in Japan: Some Ironies of Modernity, 1883-1945. Science in Context, v. 11, n. 3-4, p. 545-565, 1998.
RIEDER, John. Colonialism and the Emergency of Science Fiction. Middleton: Wesleyan University Press, 2008.
ROBERTSON, Jennifer. Blood talks: eugenic modernity and the creation of new Japanese. History and Anthropology, v. 13, n. 3, p. 191-216, 2002.
SEAMAN, Amanda C. “The Mommy Trap”: Childless Women Write Motherhood — Kōno Taeko, Takahashi Takako, and Murata Sayaka. In: COPELAND, Rebecca (Ed.). Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers. Tóquio: Amsterdam University Press, 2022, p. 195-208.
SILVA, Priscila E. da. As origens da USP: raça, nação e branquitude na universidade. Curitiba: Editora Appris, 2020.
SPECCHIO, Anna. No Sex and the Paradise City A critical reading of Murata Sayaka’s Shōmetsu sekai 消滅世界 (2015). Kervan – International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, n. 24, v. 2, p. 373-396, 2020.
SPECCHIO, Anna. Women and Queer Kinships: Matsuura Rieko, Fujino Chiya, and Murata Sayaka. In: COPELAND, Rebecca (Ed.). Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Women Writers. Tóquio: Amsterdam University Press, 2022, p. 209-226.
WIEGMAN, Robyn. Sex and Negativity; or, What Queer Theory Has for You. Cultural Critique, v. 95, p. 219-243, 2017.
WILDERSON III, Frank B. Afropessimismo. Tradução de R. W. Galindo e R. C. de Freitas. São Paulo: Todavia, 2021.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2026 Porto das Letras
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Os autores concordam com os termos da Declaração de Direito Autoral, que se aplicará a esta submissão caso seja publicada nesta revista (comentários ao editor podem ser incluídos a seguir).
