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Trans-cultural and trans-temporal translations

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Author	Ho, Tammy Lai-Ming
Copyright Year	2020
Abstract	This paper reads a group of contemporary poems in English and their precursor-poems, written in either Chinese or English, and charts the metamorphoses that occur between the two versions. The newer poems may follow the language patterns and ideas of the ‘originals’ but transpose and translate the earlier texts into different temporal, cultural, political and social contexts as ameans of addressing contemporary concerns. Suchmulti-layered crossover translations, I argue, epitomize the notion of globalized literature and the ways inwhich form and content can be recycled across cultures, historical periods and languages. In this sense, the new works simultaneously draw attention to the cultural specificities of the ‘originals’ and engender new meanings in new target languages or cultures. The paper presents the possibility of considering trans-temporal and trans-cultural translation as one mode of reading, identifying, understanding and teaching World Literature. It also argues that texts that have undergone the treatment of trans-temporal and trans-cultural translation (such as Auden’s “Landscape with the Fall of Icarus” and Li Bai’s “Changgan Xin”), regardless of their original language, exhibit qualities that other texts that have been translated straightforwardly into different languages may lack and can be viewed as ‘exemplary World Literature texts.’
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Ending Page	156
Page Count	16
Starting Page	141
DOI	10.1515/9783110691504-008
Language	English
Publisher	Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publisher Date	2020-11-23
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Cultural Studies Translations Reads Originals Trans Temporal and Trans Cultural Temporal and Trans Cultural Translation
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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