Panel at ASLE 2025: Collective Atmospheres
July 8-11, 2025
University of Maryland, College Park

This panel takes up air pollution in Asian texts both as a material substance and as a metaphorical strategy for narrating environmental harm. We welcome proposals on Asian literature or film. We currently have 2 presenters working on Japan and 1 presenter on China. The current panelists intersect with issues of environmental justice, the invisibility of pollution and its victims, and airborne illnesses as a metaphor for radioactive contamination. We would welcome …