Chinese Poetry and Translation

Rights and Wrongs
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-94-6298-994-8
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs offers fifteen essays on the triptych of poetry + translation + Chinese. The collection has three parts: "The Translator's Take," "Theoretics," and "Impact." The conversation stretches from queer-feminist engagement with China's newest poetry to philosophical and philological reflections on its oldest, and from Tang- and Song-dynasty classical poetry in Western languages to Baudelaire and Celan in Chinese. Translation is taken as an interlingual and intercultural act, and the essays foreground theoretical expositions and the practice of translation in equal but not opposite measure. Poetry has a transforming yet ever-acute relevance in Chinese culture, and this makes it a good entry point for studying Chinese-foreign encounters. Pushing past oppositions that still too often restrict discussions of translation-form versus content, elegance versus accuracy, and "the original" versus "the translated" - this volume brings a wealth of new thinking to the interrelationships between poetry, translation, and China.

Autoren/Hrsg.

van Crevel, Maghiel

Klein, Lucas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Admussen, Nick

Rallen, Joseph

Coleman, Tara

Edmond, Jacob

Goodman, Eleanor

Idema, Wilt

Klein, Lucas

Krenz, Joanna

Meng, Liansu

Marie, Jenn

van Crevel, Maghiel

Morrow, Nicholas

Min Zhou, Leonora

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Contributors Introduction: The Weird Third Thing Maghiel van Crevel and Lucas Klein Conventions Part One: The Translator's Take 1. Sitting with Discomfort: A Queer-Feminist Approach to Translating Yu Xiuhua Jenn Marie Nunes 2. Working with Words: Poetry, Translation, and Labor Eleanor Goodman 3. Translating Great Distances: The Case of the Shijing Joseph R. Allen 4. Purpose and Form: On the Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry Wilt L. Idema Part Two: Theoretics 5. Embodiment in the Translation of Chinese Poetry Nick Admussen 6. Translating Theory: Bei Dao, Pasternak, and Russian Formalism Jacob Edmond 7. Narrativity in Lyric Translation: English Translation of Chinese Ci Poetry Zhou Min 8. Sublimating Sorrow: How to Embrace Contradiction in Translating the "Li Sao" Nicholas Morrow Williams 9. Mediation Is Our Authenticity: Dagong Poetry and the Shijing in Translation Lucas Klein Part Three: Impact 10. Ecofeminism avant la lettre: Chen Jingrong and Baudelaire Liansu Meng 11. The Trope of Life and the Translation of Western Modernist Poetry in Hong Kong Chris Song 12. Lyrical Montage: Modernist Poetry in Taiwan through the Lens of Translation Tara Coleman 13. Celan's "Deathfugue" in Chinese: A Polemic about Translation and Everything Else Joanna Krenz 14. Trauma in Translation: Liao Yiwu's "Massacre" in English and German Rui Kunze 15. A Noble Art, and a Tricky Business: Translation Anthologies of Chinese Poetry Maghiel van Crevel

Über Autor(innen)

van Crevel, Maghiel
Maghiel van Crevel is professor of Chinese language and literature at Leiden University. A specialist of contemporary poetry, he has published a dozen books in English, Dutch, and Chinese, including scholarly monographs and edited volumes, literary translations, and language textbooks.

Klein, Lucas
Lucas Klein is a father, writer, and translator, as well as associate professor in the School of Chinese at the University of Hong Kong. His monograph The Organization of Distance: Poetry, Translation, Chineseness was published by Brill in 2018.