JENNA TANG, TRANSLATOR OF LIN YI-HAN’S NOVEL, FANG SI-CHI’S FIRST LOVE PARADISE
September 20,
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Speaker(s):Jenna Tang
Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise: "The most influential book of Taiwan's #MeToo movement-a heartbreaking account of sexual violence and a remarkable reinvention of the trauma plot, turning the traditional Lolita narrative upside down as it explores women's vulnerability, victimization, and the lengths they will go to survive."
Jenna Tang: Taiwanese writer, educator, and translator who translates between Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French, and English. She received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School. Her translations and essays are published in The Paris Review, Latin American Literature Today, AAWW, Catapult, Mcsweeney's, and elsewhere. She translated Lin Yi- Han's novel, Fang Si-Chi's First Love Paradise, one of the most iconic #MeToo movement titles from Taiwan.