“Australian Fantasy in Japan” AustLit launch
Lucy Fraser, Sonia Broad, Maggie Nolan, Catriona Mills
Join us to launch the “Australian Fantasy Fiction and Japan” project, published on AustLit, an authoritative database about Australian literature and storytelling.
Australia and Japan are prolific creators of visual and literary stories of the “fantastic”: fairy tales, fantasy, mythology, science fiction, speculative fiction, and more. Japan is known in particular for its imaginative manga and anime, and increasingly for young adult novels, and Australia has flourishing scenes of young adult and fantasy fiction as well as sci fi, spec fi, illustration, and cosplay, to name a few. These genres and media are supported by passionate audiences and fans; they are accessible to people of different ages, people living very different lives, and they offer opportunities for border-crossing and connection.
The “Australian Fantasy Fiction and Japan” project site focuses on one aspect of “fantastic” Japan-Australia encounters. It outlines the history of Australian fantasy fiction in Japanese translation, offers a searchable dataset of these translated works, and highlights some of the Australian fiction authors whose works have been particularly successful in Japan.
In this launch event, project leads Lucy Fraser (Senior Lecturer in Japanese) and Sonia Broad (PhD candidate), together with Maggie Nolan (AustLit Director), and Catriona Mills (AustLit Content Manager) will introduce the project, reflect on the process of working with AustLit, and discuss future possibilities for other collaborations on translated literature and border-crossing literature.
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Studies in Culture
Through the scholarly analysis of many different kinds of cultural products, texts and phenomena, Studies in Culture brings together researchers who seek to understand how the world is understood differently by people coming from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Researchers in this cluster work on literature, film, music, theatre, the visual arts, intangible heritage, testimonies and historical narratives.
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