Speakers: Chieko Irie Mulhern and Ann Sherif

The market for Japanese literature has never been larger or more promising, but does what sells well in Japan appeal to readers overseas? What is the common ground that Japanese authors address? What works succeed in English? What kinds of translations succeed? Professor of Japanese language and literature at Oberlin College, author of Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Koda Aya (1999), translator of Yoshimoto Banana, and currently studying the literature of the Cold War, Ann Sherif’s perspective focuses on writing set in contemporary Japan. Chieko Mulhern, former professor of Japanese language and literature at the University of Illinois, editor of Heroic with Grace (1991), a book on legendary women in Japanese history and author of Japanese Women Writers (1994), will look at the appeal of historical fiction set in Japan.

Date: November 27, 2004 (Sat.)

Time:  3:00-5:00 p.m. (doors open at 2:00 p.m.)

Place:  Tokyo-Azabudai Seminar House, Osaka Keizai Hoka Daigaku Bldg., 2nd
floor, 1-11-15 Azabudai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0041

Access:  Kamiyacho Station, Hibiya Line, exit 1 (Tokyo Tower direction). See
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Fee:  ¥1,000 for SWET and JAT members; ¥1,500 for non-members.