Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan

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Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan offers a collection of essays that (1) deepens the understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in contemporary Japan and how translation operates in this shifting context and circulates globally by looking at some of the ways it is theorized and approached as a significant social, cultural, or political practice, and harnessed by its multiple agents; (2) draws attention to the multi-platform translations of cultural productions such as manga, which are both particular to and popular in Japan but also culturally influential and widely circulated transnationally; (3) poses questions about the range of roles translation has in the construction, performance, and control of gender roles in Japan, and (4) enriches Translation Studies by offering essays that problematize critical notions related to translation. In short, the essays in this book highlight the diversity and ubiquity of translation in Japan as well as the range of methods being used to understand how it is being theorized, positioned, and practiced. Cover Title Copyright Contents Introduction 1 Death Note: Multilingual Manga and Multidimensional Translation 2 Literature and Theatre into Film: Shindō Kaneto’s Kuroneko 3 Translating Kamui Gaiden: Intergeneric Translation from Manga to Live-Action Film 4 The Revolution Cannot Be Translated: Transfiguring Discourses of Women’s Liberation in 1970s–1980s Japan 5 Catharine MacKinnon in Japanese: Toward a Radical Feminist Theory of Translation 6 Translating Queer in Japan: Affective Identification and Translation in the ‘Gay Boom’ of the 1990s 7 The Perils of Paisley and Weird Manwomen: Queer Crossings into Primetime J-TV via Telops 8 Translating Gendered Voices: From Tanizaki Junichirō’s Naomi to Yoshimoto Banana’s Kitchen 9 Hirai Teiichi, the Japanese Translator of Dracula and Literary Shape-shifter 10 Yun Dong-ju’s poetry in Japanese Translation Contributors Index