Poetry, Old Age and Translation: Tsurumi Shunsuke's 'Senility' Books

Speaker:

Honorary Associate Professor Tomoko Aoyama

Professor Aoyama taught Japanese language and literature at the University of Queensland until her retirement in 2020. She is currently an Honorary Associate Professor at the same university. Her research focuses on representations of food, cooking and eating in modern/contemporary Japanese literature and manga; parody and intertexutality; gender, humour and ageing. She is the author of Reading Food in Modern Japanese Literature (University of Hawaii Press, 2008) and a number of journal articles and book chapters. She has edited two books: Girl Reading Girl in Japan (with Barbara Hartley, Routledge, 2010) and Configurations of Family in Contemporary Japan (with Laura Dales and Romit Dasgupta, Routledge,2015) and several journal special issues, most recently, on ‘Youth and Democracy in Post-war Japanese Culture’, Japanese Studies, 42(3), 2022. She has also published three book-length translations: Tsurumi Shunsuke’s Ame no Uzume den co-translated with Penny Bailey as The Stripper Goddess of Japan: The Life and Afterlives of Ame no Uzume (Trans Pacific Press, 2023) and two novels by Kanai Mieko: Indian Summer (with Barbara Hartley, Cornell East Asia Series, 2012) and Oh, Tama!: A Mejiro Novel (with Paul McCarthy, Kurodahan Press, 2014, rev. Stone Bridge Press, 2019).

Topic:

Poetry, Old Age and Translation: Tsurumi Shunsuke's 'Senility' Books

Honorary Associate Professor Tomoko Aoyama will be presenting in Japanese. Simultaneous interpreting into English will be provided.