Associate Prof. Dr. George T. Sipos, the CSEA founder and director, is the co-editor with Irina Holca of a new volume on Eastern Europe and Japan, published at Routledge.
Literary and Artistic Japan Behind the Iron Curtain engages with literary translations from Japanese into languages such as Romanian, Russian, Czech, Hungarian, German, and Slovenian, alongside art exhibits and performance shows focused on Japan, and provides an original contribution to the field of Japanese studies in Eastern and Central Europe and the former Soviet space.
In addition, by offering a multifaceted, multilingual, and multicultural approach to the diverse realities of countries from the former communist bloc, the book sheds light on the unique relationships they created with literary and artistic Japan, as well as the unique ways in which they attempted to lift the Iron Curtain and gaze at the Asian Other, a subject of both fascination and identification.
The volume details are available here: https://www.routledge.
