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Murakami Haruki’s America: Talk, Taste, and The Specter of the Untranslatable

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العنوان: Murakami Haruki’s America: Talk, Taste, and The Specter of the Untranslatable
المؤلفون: Brian Hurley
المصدر: Japanese Language and Literature, Vol 58, Iss 1 (2024)
بيانات النشر: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh, 2024.
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: LCC:Language and Literature
مصطلحات موضوعية: Murakami Haruki, Translation, Pop Culture, Language and Literature, Japanese language and literature, PL501-889
الوصف: The world-famous Japanese novelist Murakami Haruki (1949-) has been said to write universally-legible, made-to-be-translated fiction that is designed to circulate through the channels of global cultural commerce unimpeded by the thorny particularities of local specificity. But this article explores a different side of Murakami—a side that attuned to the untranslatable particularity of socially contextualized language as he heard it spoken around him during his time living in the United States in the early 1990s. Drawing on the scholar of comparative literature Michael Lucey’s approach to reading “the ethnography of talk,” the analysis focuses on how Murakami reconstructs a conversation about jazz that he had with a Black American interlocutor in New Jersey in the short essay “The Road Home From Berkeley” (Bākurē kara no kaerimichi), which appears in his volume of essays about living in the United States titled The Sadness of Foreign Language (Yagate kanashiki gaikokugo, 1994). As the article compares the styles of speaking documented in “The Road Home From Berkeley” with those that appear in the English- and Japanese-language versions of Miles Davis’s autobiography Miles (which Murakami discusses in “The Road Home From Berkeley”) and J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye (which Murakami translated himself), it reveals how Murakami has reflected on the specter of the untranslatable that haunts the global circulations of literature and pop culture.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1536-7827
2326-4586
Relation: http://jll.pitt.edu/ojs/JLL/article/view/344; https://doaj.org/toc/1536-7827; https://doaj.org/toc/2326-4586
DOI: 10.5195/jll.2024.344
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/2be9f22731574f2b80d1a314491ea1d7
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.2be9f22731574f2b80d1a314491ea1d7
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:15367827
23264586
DOI:10.5195/jll.2024.344