Session Details

Tuesday, 29 December

369. Translation East and West

8:30–9:45 a.m., Regency Ballroom C1, Loews

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Translation

Presiding: Michael Berry, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

1. “The Creation of a Lady (Kajin) as a Modern Gendered Subjectivity: Sexual Politics in the Japanese Translations of Walter Scott and Charlotte Brontë,” Takayuki Yokota-Murakami, Osaka Univ.

2. “India, How Will You Send Your Eggs to America?” Jason Grunebaum, Univ. of Chicago

3. “Chinese Cinema’s Global Dream, Multilinguality, and Dialect’s Wake,” Sheng-mei Ma, Michigan State Univ.

4. “Adam Olearius and the Reception of Sadis Gulistan,” Elio C. Brancaforte, Tulane Univ.

Respondent: Melek Ortabasi, Simon Fraser Univ.

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