Shiori Ito

Black Box: The Memoir That Sparked Japan's #Metoo Movement

Übersetzer: Powell, Allison Markin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The internationally recognized sexual assault memoir that revolutionized a feminist movement around rape, stigma, and silence in Japan.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Feminist Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 137mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9781952177972
• ISBN-10: 1952177979
• Artikelnr.: 59945701

Autorenporträt

Shiori Ito (born 1989) is a freelance journalist who contributes news footage and documentaries to the Economist, Al Jazeera, Reuters, and other primarily non-Japanese media outlets. In 2017 she published Black Box about her own experiences as a rape survivor, making her one of the few women in Japan to speak out against sexual assault. In 2020, she was named one of TIME's Most Influential People of the year. Allison Markin Powell has been awarded grants from English PEN and the NEA, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize for The Ten Loves of Nishino by Hiromi Kawakami. Her other translations include works by Osamu Dazai, Kanako Nishi, and Fuminori Nakamura. She was the guest editor for the first Japan issue of Words Without Borders, served as cochair of the PEN America Translation Committee, and currently represents the committee on PEN's Board of Trustees. She maintains the database Japanese Literature in English and lives in New York.