Fwd: H-Japan (E): Obituary: Takemura Kazuko (1954-2011)

[Naoki Yamamoto]

This is really a sad news, indeed.

Naoki

Naoki Yamamoto
PhD Candidate
East Asian Languages and Literatures/ Film Studies
Yale University

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>                                  H-JAPAN
>                             December 16, 2011
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> Online Editor: David Wittner <dwittner at utica.edu>
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> Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:34:33 +0900 (JST)
> From: mknighton05 at ybb.ne.jp
> Subject: Obituary: Takemura Kazuko (1954-2011)
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> Takemura Kazuko $BC]B<OB;R(B(1954-2011) It is with great sadness  
> that I report today that our friend and colleague in comparative  
> literary, film, and queer studies, Takemura Kazuko passed away on  
> December 13th 2011. Well known for her translations into Japanese of  
> Judith Butler's Gender Trouble (tr. 1999) and Antigone's Claim (tr.  
> 2002), Takemura Kazuko hosted Butler and numerous other luminaries  
> at Ochanomizu University where she taught and ran the  
> internationally known Gender Studies program and COE Gender Studies  
> Symposia. She has also translated theorists Trinh Minh-ha, Gayatri  
> Spivak, and Slavoj Zizek among others, but was a prolific and  
> insightful critic and theorist of gender studies and literature in  
> her own right. Without listing up her many articles, translations,  
> co-edited volumes, and achievements, I mention here only two of her  
> books in Japanese, Feminism ($B!X%U%'%_%K%:%`!Y(BIwanami shoten,  
> 2000) and On Love, Identity and the
> Politics of Desire ($B!X0&$K$D$$$F!!!<!!%"%$%G%s%F%#%F%#$HM_(B 
> $BK>$N@/<#3X!Y(BIwanami shoten, 2002). When she learned of her rare  
> form of cancer, leiomyosarcoma, she was determined to beat the  
> prognosis, retreating from professional and social life to her  
> country home in Nagano Prefecture to do just that. Her partner and  
> closest friends formed Team K to encircle her with love and support.  
> According to the Yomiuri Shimbun (12/16), services were held with  
> the closest of friends and family.
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> ***Mary A. Knighton, Ph.D.Comparative Language, Literature. and  
> Culture U.S. and Japan Studies Website: http://web.me.com/mknighton08/Knighton_site/Welcome.htmlEmail 
> : 2011kappa at gmail.com
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