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Eileen Chang
Jessica Tsui-yan Li
其他書名
The Performativity of Self-Translation
出版
Brill
, 2025
主題
Literary Criticism / General
ISBN
9004727175
9789004727175
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BDkH0QEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Eileen Chang: The Performativity of Self-Translation
by Jessica Tsui-yan Li focuses on the self-translation of Zhang Ailing 張愛玲 (Eileen Chang, 1920-1995), one of the most important Chinese writers of the twentieth century. Although self-translation is overlooked in most studies of her work, Chang's literary achievements are attributed in part to her lifelong self-translation of her lived experiences and family sagas, as well as her bilingualism.
This book enriches current studies of self-translation by proposing a new hypothesis of theorizing self-translation as a performative act, characterized by its in-betweenness and the aesthetic freedom that the self-translator enjoys, contextualized within larger debates about translation and the specific practice of self-translation in Chinese history in comparison to its Western counterpart.