Western Theory in East Asian Contexts

✍ Scribed by Leo Tak-hung Chan

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

iteratures, Cultures, Translation presents a new line of books that engage central issues in translation studies such as history, politics, and gender in and of literary translation.
This is a culturally situated study of the interface between three forms of transtextual rewriting: translation, adaptation and imitation. Two questions are raised: first, how a broader rubric can be formulated for the inclusion of the latter two forms within Translation Studies research, and second, how this enlarged definition of translation enables us to understand the incompatibilities between contemporary Western theories of translation and East Asian realities, past and present. Recent decades have seen a surge of scholarly interest in adaptations and imitations, due to the flourishing of cinema and fandom studies, and to the impact of a poststructuralist turn that sheds new light on derivative literature. Against this backdrop, a plethora of examples from the East Asian cultural sphere are analyzed to show how rewriters have freely appropriated, transcreated and recontextualized their source texts. In particular, Sino-Japanese case studies are contrasted with Sino-English ones, with both groups read against evolving traditions of thinking about free forms of translation, East and West.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication Page
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Tables
Chapter 1: The Transtextual Triad, Similar but Not the Same
Chapter 2: Freely Rendered: Aesop’s Fables in Nineteenth-Century China
Chapter 3: A Higher Loyalty? The (Ab)uses of Aesthetic Theories of Translation
Chapter 4: Adaptation Studies through a Translation Lens
Chapter 5: Accommodation and Adaptation: The Case of East Asia
Chapter 6: Boys over FlowersLocalization in a Web of (Re)adaptations
Chapter 7: The Vicissitudes of Imitatio, Historically
Chapter 8: “New Wine in Old Bottles”: Two Sino-Japanese Traditions of Imitation
Chapter 9: Receptive Transcreation: Simulating James Joyce’s Narrative Style
Chapter 10: The Aggregate Monkey: Parody and Pastiche in Japanese Manga
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index