AFTERLIFE: Translation, Yoko Ogawa's “The Memory Police,” and Global Japanese Fiction

Thank you very much for tuning in to “Afterlife: Translation, Yoko Ogawa’s “The Memory Police,” and Global Japanese Fiction” with JF Former Fellow Stephen Snyder, who will discuss the reception of the novel in the English-speaking world, 25 years after its first publication. A live Q&A will follow, moderated by Allison Markin Powell, who has translated books by Hiromi Kawakami, Fuminori Nakamura, and others. CC available.

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Interviews with Former Japan Foundation Fellows: https://tinyurl.com/y598cdpx

Dr. Stephen Snyder: http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/igs/faculty/node/52591
Middlebury Language Schools: https://www.middlebury.edu/language-schools/

Allison Markin Powell: https://pen.org/user/allison-markin-powell/
Japanese Literature in English: https://www.japaneseliteratureinenglish.com/

Articles mentioned in the lecture:
The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/12/books/yoko-ogawa-memory-police.html

New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/how-the-memory-police-makes-you-see

The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/aug/23/the-memory-police-yoko-ogawa-review

WIRED: https://www.wired.com/story/book-review-memory-police-yoko-ogawa/

Slate: https://slate.com/culture/2020/03/memory-police-ogawa-coronavirus-social-distancing.html

LitHub: https://lithub.com/the-murakami-effect/