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

在我更大的研究项目中，我把重点放在了20世纪20年代和30年代的日本，这段时期见证了出版业的巨大扩张，无论是在日本文学的民族意义上，还是在女性文学的性别意义上，文学的概念都受到了激烈的辩论、商业化和制度化。在这一时期，翻译不仅在引进最新的欧洲文学理论和体裁方面发挥了至关重要的作用，而且作为一种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女性现代主义作家佐川千香（1911- 1936）和大崎美多（1896-1971），以及与他们同时代的弗吉尼亚伍尔夫（1882- 1942），探讨了性别和翻译的动态。我在两次演讲中展示了我的发现：一次是2023年3月在波士顿举行的亚洲研究年会上，另一次是2023年4月在哈佛燕京学堂。

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.