On April 9, 2021, Professor Juliet Winters Carpenter discussed the challenges and rewards of translating between languages and cultures, including commonalities and differences in assumptions, approaches and expressions, and how works in translation open readers up to new perspectives and world-views.
Juliet Winters Carpenter has a long and distinguished career translating best-selling Japanese contemporary literature by such important authors as Abe Kobo, Enchi Fumiko, Miyabe Miyuki, Tawara Machi and Mizumura Minae. She has lived and taught in Japan for almost 50 years and has a deep understanding of Japanese culture and the place of literature within it.
View the recording of the talk in the link below.
Literary Translation form Abe to Zen Public Talk
This talk was organized by the Department of Languages and World literatures and sponsored by the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies.