Jeffrey Angles
Jeffrey Angles é professor associado de japonês e estudos de tradução, cujas traduções de importantes poetas japoneses contemporâneos ganharam o Prêmio da Comissão de Amizade Japão-EUA para a Tradução de Literatura Japonesa, o PEN Club of America Translation Grant e o National Endowment for the Arts Translation. Conceder. Ele é o autor de Writing the Love of Boys: Origins of Bishōnen Culture in Modernist Japanese Literature , e suas traduções incluem Forest of Eyes , de Tada Chimako, Intimate Worlds Enclosed , de Takahashi Mutsuo , Killing Kanoko , de Hiromi Itō, e Soul Dance, de Arai Takako.
Atualizado em maio de 2012
Stories from This Author
Hiromi Itō - from Wild Grass on the Riverbank
29 de Julho de 2012 • Jeffrey Angles
Born in Tokyo in 1955, Itō Hiromi is one of the most important women poets of contemporary Japan. Itō rose to prominence in the 1980s with a series of dramatic collections of poetry that described sexuality, pregnancy, and feminine erotic desire in dramatically direct language. Her willingness to deal with touchy subjects such as post-partum depression, infanticide, and queer sexual desire took Japan—a nation more used to images of women as proud wives, mothers, and quiet caregivers—by surprise and earned …
