Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature write by VICTORIA. YOUNG. This book was released on 2024-06-03. Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world literature, and the relationship that each of these has to translation, from the perspective of modern Japanese fiction. By reading between the gaps and revealing tensions and blind spots in the image that Japanese literature presents to the world, the author brings together a series of essays and works of fiction that are normally kept separate in distinct subgenres, such as Okinawan literature, 'Zainichi' literature written by ethnic Koreans, and other "trans-border" works. The act of translation is reimagined in figurative, expanded, and even disruptive ways with a focus on marginal spaces and trans-border movements. The result decentres the common image of Japanese literature while creating connections to wider questions of multilingualism, decolonisation, historical revisionism, and trauma that are so central to contemporary literary studies. This book will be of interest to all those who study modern Japan and Japanese literature, as well as those working in the wider field of translation studies, as it subjects the concept of world literature to searching analysis.
Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature
Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature write by Victoria Young. This book was released on 2024-06-03. Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines contemporary debates on such concepts as national literature, world literature, and the relationship each of these to translation, from the perspective of modern Japanese fiction. By reading between the gaps and revealing tensions and blind spots in the image that Japanese literature presents to the world, the author brings together a series of essays and works of fiction that are normally kept separate in distinct subgenres, such as Okinawan literature, zainichi literature written by ethnic Koreans, and other “trans-border” works. The act of translation is reimagined in figurative, expanded, and even disruptive ways with a focus on marginal spaces and trans-border movements. The result decentres the common image of Japanese literature while creating connections to wider questions of multilingualism, decolonisation, historical revisionism, and trauma that are so central to contemporary literary studies. This book will be of interest to all those who study modern Japan and Japanese literature, as well as those working in the wider field of translation studies, as it subjects the concept of world literature to searching analysis.
Border-Crossing Japanese Literature
Border-Crossing Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Border-Crossing Japanese Literature write by Akiko Uchiyama. This book was released on 2023-07-21. Border-Crossing Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan. With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By demonstrating how the texts analysed step outside the space of ‘Japan’, they accordingly foreground the volatility of textual expression related to that space. The authors discussed include Takahashi Mutsuo and Nagai Kafū, both of whom take literary inspiration from geographical sites outside Japan. Several chapters examine the work of exemplary border-crossing poet, novelist and essayist, Itō Hiromi. There are discussions of the work of Tawada Yōko whose ability to publish in German and Japanese marks her also as a representative writer of border-crossing texts. Two chapters address works by Murakami Haruki who, although clearly affiliating with western cultural form, is rarely discussed in specific border-crossing terms. The chapter on Ainu narratives invokes topics such as translation, indigeneity and myth, while an analysis of Japanese prisoner-of-war narratives notes the language and border-crossing nexus. A vital collection for scholars and students of Japanese literature.
Translating Modern Japanese Literature
Translating Modern Japanese Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Translating Modern Japanese Literature write by Richard Donovan. This book was released on 2019-09-12. Translating Modern Japanese Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents and comments on four short works of Japanese literature by prominent writers of the early twentieth century, including Natsume Sōseki and Miyazawa Kenji. These are their first-ever published English translations. The book is designed to be used as a textbook for the translation of modern Japanese literature—another first. Each chapter introduces the writer and his work, presents the original Japanese text in its entirety, and encourages students with advanced Japanese to make their own translation of it, before reading the author’s translation that follows. The detailed commentary section in each chapter focuses on two stylistic issues that characterise the source text, and how the target text—the translation—has dealt with them, before the chapter concludes with questions for further discussion and analysis.
Basketball in Japan
Basketball in Japan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Basketball in Japan write by Aaron L. Miller. This book was released on 2024-08-20. Basketball in Japan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through a study of basketball in Japan, this book aims to help readers better understand the historical formation and contemporary reformation of cultural identity in Japan. This reformation includes the process of reconciling the perceived differences between basketball in Japan and basketball in the West, the process of reconciling how perceptions of one’s body are shaped in a globally interconnected society, the process of reconciling what it means to be a modern man, and the process of reconciling what it means to be Japanese in a nation that is increasingly multicultural. In other words, basketball in Japan matters, not only because it has for too long been over‐simply labelled as a “minor” sport, but also because it is much more than a game. Examining the real and symbolic power which sport has on Japanese culture, and even in some instances the state, this book will be a valuable resource for scholars and students of Japanese culture and society and the sociology of sports.
