ICLS1001 Lecture 11: ICLS1001_Tutorial Week 11-Banana Yoshimoto's 'Kitchen'_Japanese lit.

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: International Comparative Literature
• Course: ICLS1001
• Professor: Rebecca Suter

Document Summary

Eriko"s over-characterisation of the trope of the ditzy, feminine parent. Yuichi"s stereotypical character of the forced from the need to form a personality away from his transgender mother. Articles about translations leaving words (objects" names) untranslated, forcing readers to research the meaning and understand the cultural significance and therefore better understand the text. No need to over-culturalise he novel as stereotypically japanese because it was written or the. Japanese (interesting note on translated works in general). The kitchen as the centrepiece to the "family" (the togabes and mokage) they all need to eat. Open-ending for the purpose of giving the characters a life beyond the book (?) Parallel of the need for flowers/plants in the kitchen and (eriko"s wife"s) hospital room.