TALK: Translating Japanese Literature
Since the Mid-1980s
John Treat (Yale University)
Wednesday, March 2 / 12:30 (NOTE TIME CHANGE) PM / Free
3201 HSSB, 3rd floor, UCSB
John Treat will use “Translating Murakami,”
the appendix to Jay Rubin’s Haruki Murakami and
the Music of Words (London Harvill, 2002) as a starting
point to discuss what has happened to translating Japanese
literature since the mid-1980s. John Treat is professor
and chairman of East Asian Languages and Literatures
at Yale University, where he teaches modern Japanese
literature. He is completing a literary history entitled
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature, and
beginning a new project on pro-Japanese writers in colonial-era
Korea.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Translation Studies Research
Focus Group
