{"id":21451,"date":"2025-09-26T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/?p=21451"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T02:27:38","slug":"reading-the-memory-police-through-socio-political-cultural-and-historical-contexts-for-the-literature-in-english-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/arts-activities\/2025\/09\/26\/21451\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cReading The Memory Police through Socio-Political, Cultural, and Historical Contexts\u201d for the \u201cLiterature in English Translation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Tuesday 16 September 2025, Keiko Sei, a distinguished writer, translator, film producer, and curator, delivered a public lecture entitled \u201cReading The Memory Police through Socio-Political, Cultural, and Historical Contexts\u201d for the \u201cLiterature in English Translation\u201d class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This academic event was organised by the Department of English as part of the \u201cLiterature in English Translation\u201d course, convened by Associate Professor Verita Sriratana, PhD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms Sei offered not only a comparative reading of Y\u014dko Ogawa\u2019s original text and its English translation, but also an overview of the socio-cultural and political contexts of contemporary Japan pertinent to the novel. Our guest speaker also led the class discussion on various topics, including Japan in the Age of Care, the intersection of natural disasters and memory, the hikikomori phenomenon, the role and representation of women in Japanese literature, the cover designs of the Japanese and English editions, the intertextual influence of Anne Frank\u2019s Diary, and the elements of sh\u014djo manga in The Memory Police, which are often overlooked by non-Japanese readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This special lecture concluded with a screening of \u201cCannon Fodder\u201d, a segment from Katsuhiro \u014ctomo\u2019s \u201cMemories\u201d trilogy (1995).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Tuesday 16 September 2025, Keiko Sei, a distinguished writer, translator, film producer, and curator, delivered a public lecture entitled \u201cReading The Memory Police through Socio-Political, Cultural, and Historical Contexts\u201d for the \u201cLiterature in English Translation\u201d class. This academic event was organised by the Department of English as part of the \u201cLiterature in English Translation\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123458,"featured_media":21452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[93],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21457,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21451\/revisions\/21457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arts.chula.ac.th\/th\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}