Images of Latin America in Japanese Literature: Teachings from a Shared-Periphery in Kenzaburō Ōe’s Post-Mexican Fiction
Presentation by Matias Chiappe Ippolito based on a pre-circulated paper. Please RSVP to the event here by February 16.
Matias Chiappe Ippolito (b.1984) holds a Bachelor degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Buenos Aires and a Master’s degree in Japanese Studies from El Colegio de México. He lives in Tokyo, where he does a PhD at Waseda University about Japanese writers that traveled to or wrote about Latin America, such as Nakagami Kenji, Kenzaburō Ōe and Hoshino Tomoyuki, among others. He works in that university and as a translator, while writing for literary journals like Andén Digital in Argentina, The Buenos Aires Review in the United States and Tokyo Poetry Journal in Japan. He has translated Sakutarō Hagiwara, Sakaguchi Ango and Yoshihara Sachiko.