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SUMMARY:The Journey is My Home - Early Travel Writing in Canada & Japan
DESCRIPTION:Not able to escape Toronto’s cold and slush this season? Don’t despair. The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is offering an exciting substitute to airplane or even armchair travel: a Travel Lecture Series. In each installment\, a pair of speakers will address a particular travel-related issue from both a Canadian and a Japanese perspective. Coming up in March are talks about Special Interest Tourism and Travel Writing. We hope to see you there. \nFor the second installment of our Travel Lecture series\, The Japan Foundation\, Toronto is pleased to present a pair of lectures about early travel writing in Japan and Canada. Although separated by great distance and in some cases great periods of time\, ‘writing’ their landscapes\, both to claim the land and to present it to others\, was a preoccupation for authors in both cultures. \nWanderers in a Distant Country: Re-imagining Canadian Spaces in Catharine Parr Traill & Susanna Moodie – Prof. S. Bailey \nSusanna Moodie’s Roughing It in the Bush (1852) and Catharine Parr Traill’s The Backwoods of Canada (1836) are considered foundational works in Canadian literary history\, representing an early narrative tradition grounded in accounts of pioneer life and exploration. Both sisters published in mainstream literary periodicals in Britain prior to immigrating\, and both wrote extensively for British and American markets while living in Canada. Moodie and Traill thus play a significant role in interpreting Canada for an international readership\, in addition to documenting their own progress in making a foreign space ‘home.’ Professor Bailey will trace the means by which Moodie and Traill ‘write’ the Canadian landscape both to attract transnational readers and to bind themselves to their new Canadian home: Traill\, through the language of scientific observation and natural history\, and Moodie\, through sentimental Romantic traditions. \nUnder Trees and Over Rocks: Travel Writing in Early Japan – Prof. K. Strand \nTravel was all the rage in early modern\, or Edo (1600-1868)\, Japan.  Its importance as a part of life is indicated by a range of works by major figures of medieval and early modern travel writing\, from the poetry of itinerant priest Saigyô (1118-1190) to the famous travel diary of Matsuo Bashô (1643-1693)\, Narrow Road to the Deep North (1693). But how did this interest arise? Professor Strand will explore the many different ways in which people of medieval and early modern Japan engaged in a culture of travel\, from writing diaries about official travel and pilgrimages to major sacred centres\, to consuming poetry and images of famous sites and locations throughout Japan. While traveling to compose poetry about famous places seems a benign endeavor\, a culture of travel writing developed as an act of inscribing new maps on the landscape\, and constructing a specific historical ideology. \n\nAbout the speakers: \nKendra Strand is a visiting professor of Japanese at St. Olaf College\, where she teaches Japanese language\, literature\, and culture. She received her PhD in Japanese Literature from the University of Michigan. In her dissertation\, she translates four travel diaries by political elites in the fourteenth century\, and examines how landscape and travel are used in the diaries to address issues of social and political authority. Her research focuses on pre-modern Japanese travel writing\, poetry\, and visual culture. She is also interested in representations of Japanese history in contemporary literature and popular culture. \n  \n  \n  \nSuzanne Bailey is an Associate Professor in the Department of English Literature at Trent University. She is also a member of Trent’s Public Texts (English) MA program\, and at the Frost Centre for Canadian Studies. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto. She teaches a range of courses\, from Victorian literature and culture to contemporary travel writing and women’s writing. Her research centres on how we come to know what we know\, and how we can learn to see and understand the value of other stories and perspectives. \n  \n  \n  \n\nRelated events: \nPeterborough\nUnder Trees and Over Rocks: Travel Writing in Early Japan – A lecture by Professor Kendra Strand\nTuesday\, March 22   3:00-4:00 pm\nThe Pit\, Lady Eaton College\n1600 West Bank Drive\, Peterborough ON K9L 1Z6\nAdmission: Free \n  \nOrganized by:\nThe Japan Foundation\, Toronto\nWith support from:\nUniversity of Toronto Libraries\nTrent University: Department of English Literature\, Department of History\, Public Texts (English) MA Program\, Lady Eaton College\, Trent International Program \n \n  \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Writers on Writing: Author Mitsuyo Kakuta in conversation with Rui Umezawa
DESCRIPTION:Writers on Writing: Author Mitsuyo Kakuta in conversation with Rui Umezawa\nThe Japan Foundation\, Toronto is pleased to invite you to join us as local writer Rui Umezawa interviews one of the most popular and prolific authors working in Japan today. Known in particular for her assertive\, individualistic female protagonists\, Mitsuyo Kakuta will discuss the various struggles her characters face\, and how they deal with the various social pressures they are under. The writers will also discuss current trends in Canadian literature\, and how Ms. Kakuta’s novels\, which have been translated into multiple languages\, are received in different cultures. \n\nAbout the Speakers: \nMitsuyo Kakuta is one of the most popular and prolific female novelists active in Japan today. She is the author of over 80 works of long and short fiction\, as well as numerous essays. Her debut novel\, written while she was still a university student\, was awarded the Kaien Prize for New Writers in 1990. She received the 2005 Naoki Prize for Woman on the Other Shore\, the 2007 Chuo Koron Literary Prize for The Eighth Day\, and the 2012 Renzaburo Shibata Prize for Pale Moon. The Eighth Day was made into a televised drama and sold more than a million copies\, making her one of Japan’s best-selling authors. Both The Eighth Day and Pale Moon have been made into highly acclaimed films. Earlier this year she collaborated with Yasuhisa Yoshikawa on the publication of a condensed Japanese translation of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past. \n\nRui Umezawa is a Toronto essayist and novelist whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail\, the Toronto Star\, Descant Magazine and elsewhere. He is the author of a martial arts terminology book\, The Empty Hand\, and an illustrated children’s book\, Aiko’s Flowers (illustrated by Yuji Ando). His adult novel\, The Truth About Death and Dying was called “a dazzling tour-de-force” by Canadian Literature\, and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Book Prize for Best First Book (Canada and the Caribbean). His latest book\, Strange Light Afar: Tales of the Supernatural from Old Japan\, was published in September 2015 by Groundwood Books. \n  \nPhoto of Mitsuyo Kakuta by chihiro.\nPhoto of Rui Umezawa by Linda Umezawa
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