Japan’s role in globalizing Asia has been widely recognized. Ever since the 1990's, Japan has been exporting waves of it's cultural products such as anime or animated films, television dramas, music, manga or comics, novels, and so on. These spreads of cultural products across the borders of Asia … [Read more...]
Bi wa Kizu and the Image of Cultural Globalization in Contemporary Japan: A Case Study of an Indonesian Novel Translation
May 31, 2015 by
Annie Tucker on Translating Eka Kurniawan
May 30, 2015 by
I was introduced to Eka Kurniawan while doing Ph.D. research in Java in 2011. Literary-minded friends described his work as “required reading” and him as “the next Pramoedya,” referring to Indonesia’s most famous novelist. I quickly acquainted myself with his writing, and soon after, with the author … [Read more...]
75 Notable Translations of 2014
May 30, 2015 by
Literary translation again filled the news in 2014. There were firsts to celebrate—the earliest-known Arabic stories were finally translated into English, and Deep Vellum Publishing, a new translation-only publisher founded in, of all places, Dallas, Texas, published its first book—but also the … [Read more...]
BEA 2015: Books by Franzen, Hallberg Among Most Talked About
May 30, 2015 by
BEA is about the future: the books that publishers are presenting, authors are signing, and booksellers and librarians are noting for the upcoming seasons. This year, as always, we walked the aisles to ask our favorite folks in the know what upcoming books they are excited about. The two novels … [Read more...]
I read books by only minority authors for a year. It showed me just how white our reading world is.
May 17, 2015 by
White authors reign in book reviews, bestseller lists, literary awards and Amazon.com recommendations. In 2014, I decided that for the entire year, I would not read books written by white authors. My goal was to address the reading practices I developed growing up in Australia, where white … [Read more...]
