Beyond National Language: Li Kotomi’s Authorial Plurilingualism

dc.creator	McIntyre, Lillian
dc.date.accessioned	2023-12-19T21:34:35Z
dc.date.available	2023-12-19T21:34:35Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	Li Kotomi, a Taiwanese-born author now living in Japan, has burst into prominence on the Japanese-language literary scene after her acceptance of the Akutagawa Prize in 2021. This article utilizes translation theory to explore the blended use of Chinese and Japanese in one of Kotomi’s earlier novellas, the 2019 “Itsutsu kazoereba mikazuki ga” (“Count to Five and the Crescent Moon will…”). The novella follows two women, one from Taiwan and one from Japan, and their reunion after moving to each other’s country of birth, further complicated by one’s attraction to the other. Through her use of orthography, Kotomi’s narrative confronts the reader with the quandaries of translation, and her depiction of the personal consequences of living between languages and nations challenges the categories of national language and identity.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10125/107631
dc.rights	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subject	Contemporary Japanese literature
dc.subject	Japanese language literature
dc.subject	translation theory
dc.subject	postcolonialism
dc.title	Beyond National Language: Li Kotomi’s Authorial Plurilingualism
dcterms.type	Text
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