My primary research interest is in literature, although I tend to indulge in critical reading of anything that constitutes a narrative. This is the sixth year of my living in Tokyo, and I am still enjoying it, being more amazed than puzzled by the minutely detailed ways of living in this packed and yet somehow serene and fine city. And no, I am never lost in translation. Not because I am bilingual, but because I was born nosy and am keen to find out what other people do. At the moment I am trying to write a paper on pornography (note that I am not writing ‘porn’ itself) which is exactly the thing a nosy person would be expected to do.
Academic Papers
- A Girl with her Writing Machine: Amebic by Kanehara Hitomi [html] Draft
- Mishima Yukio’s Sex which is not One [html]
- Narratives, the Body and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics [PDF]
- The Hong Kong Connection: Wong Kar-Wai’s 2046 and Japanese as the Language of Desire [html]
- A Manifestation of Modernity: The Split Gaze and the Oedipalised Space of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima Yukio [PDF]
- “The Way of the Samurai”: Ghost Dog, Mishima, and Modernity’s Other [PDF]
- Translator’s postscript for Mister Pip (Japanese)
