Adaptations of Western Literature in Meiji Japan
Book Details
Author(s)J. Scott Miller
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN0312239955
ISBN-139780312239954
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
Description
This book examines three examples of late nineteenth-century Japanese adaptations of Western literature: a biography of Ulysses S. Grant recasting him as a Japanese warrior, a Victorian novel reset as oral performance, and an American melodrama redone as a serialized novel promoting the reform of Japanese theater. Miller argues that adaptation (hon’an ) was a valid form of contemporary Japanese translation that fostered creative appropriation across genres and among a diverse group of writers and artists.
