The Birth of Women Writers: Authorship, Publishing, and Translation in Modern Japan

在我更大的研究项目中，我把重点放在20世纪20年代和30年代的日本，当时出版业经历了巨大的扩张，文学的想法被激烈地辩论、商业化和制度化，无论是在日本文学的国家意义上，还是在女性文学的性别意义上。在此期间，翻译不仅成为引进欧洲最新文学理论和体裁的关键，而且成为探索新的实验性写作方式的战略手段。我的研究通过考察两位现代主义女性作家佐川·千香(1911-1936)和大阪御织(1896-1971)，以及她们的同代人弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫(1882-1942)来探索性别和翻译的动态。我在两次演讲中展示了我的发现：2023年3月在波士顿举行的亚洲研究年度会议，以及2023年4月在哈佛-燕京研究所举行的会议。

Within my larger research project, I focused on the period of the 1920s and 1930s in Japan, which saw a vast expansion of the publishing industry as the idea of literature was intensely debated, commercialized, and institutionalized, whether in the national sense of Japanese literature, or in the gendered sense of women’s literature. During this time, translation became crucial not only in introducing the latest European literary theories and genres, but also as a strategic means to search for new experimental ways of writing. My research explored the dynamics of gender and translation by examining two female modernist authors, Sagawa Chika (1911- 1936) and Osaki Midori (1896-1971), alongside their contemporary, Virginia Woolf (1882- 1942). I presented my findings at two talks: the Annual Conference of Asian Studies in Boston in March 2023, and at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in April 2023.