![]() The 19th century, when Japan modernized, coincided with the rise of sexology, and there was a shift in how homosexuality was viewed but only partially. “If you look at the Edo period, there’s a very long lineage of Samurai love literature and love literature between monks and their acolytes,” Carland-Echavarria says. Yet, Japan never had the religious or legal restrictions against same-sex sexuality that were found all throughout the West, he says. Post-World War II, the two countries became very intertwined with one another politically, militarily, and economically. “For queer Americans, Japan in the ’50s, ’60s, and early ’70s was almost a refuge it was a very strange neutral zone where a lot of expression was possible,” he says.Ĭarland-Echavarria’s dissertation, provisionally titled “Finding the Rainbow World: Translation, Affect, and U.S.-Japan Queer Literary Exchange in the Early Cold War,” re-examines the English-language translation and subsequent globalization of modern Japanese art and literature in the 1950s and 1960s from a queer and translation studies perspective. Miller at UMass, who wrote an anthology on gay literature in Japan, sparked Carland-Echavarria’s current focus on postwar queer cultures and translation, as well as queer art and literature in Japan during the global Cold War. “I have always wanted to figure out ways to continue my studies of Japan because to stop just felt like I was leaving a puzzle unfinished,” he says. From that experience, Carland-Echavarria was hooked on learning all he could about Japan: studying abroad in Osaka and Kyoto as an undergraduate, teaching English with the JET program in Hokkaido after graduation, and then getting a master’s in Japanese at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. candidate in the School of Arts & Sciences. “I don’t think he had ever seen a cow,” says Carland-Echavarria, now an East Asian languages and civilizations Ph.D. It was part of a 4-H program that introduced urban Japanese students to rural life. But all that changed in middle school when his family hosted an exchange student from Tokyo. Growing up in rural Maine, Patrick Carland-Echavarria had a fairly homogeneous upbringing. ![]()
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