Travel, Translation and Transmedia Aesthetics

Franco-Chinese Literature and Visual Arts in a Global Age
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-981-16-5561-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

This book examines the works of four contemporary first-generation Chinese migrant writer-artists in France: François CHENG, GAO Xingjian, DAI Sijie, and SHAN Sa. They were all born in China, moved to France in their adulthood to pursue their literary and artistic ambitions, and have enjoyed the highest French and Western institutional recognitions, from the Grand Prix de la Francophonie to the Nobel Prize in Literature. They have established themselves not only as writers, but also as translators, calligraphers, painters, playwrights, and filmmakers mainly in their host country. French has become their dominant—but not only—language of literary creation (except for Gao); yet, linguistic idioms, poetic imagery, and classical thought from Chinese cultural heritage permeate their French texts and visual artworks, reflecting a strong translingual and transmedial sensibility. The book provides not only distinctive literary and artistic examples beyond existing studies of intercultural encounter, French postcolonial, and Chinese diasporic enquiries; more importantly, it formulates a theoretical model that captures the creative dynamics between the French/francophone and Chinese/sinophone spaces of articulation, thereby contributing to contemporary debates about literary and artistic production, interpretation, and circulation in the global development of comparative/world literature, as well as intermediality studies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Li, Shuangyi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Diverse Forms of Travel and Translation in Franco-Chinese Fiction.- Chapter 3: Translingual Rewriting and Transhistorical Fabulation.- Chapter 4: Sinograph, Calligraphy, and Novelistic Aesthetics.- Chapter 5: Translational (Anti-)Storytelling and Transmedia Aesthetics.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Shuangyi Li is a Lecturer in Comparative Literatures and Cultures at the University of Bristol, UK. He is the author of Proust, China and Intertextual Engagement: Translation and Transcultural Dialogue (2017) (International Comparative Literature Association Anna Balakian Prize 2019). He received his PhD in French at the University of Edinburgh and was selected as pensionnaire étranger at L'École Normale Supérieure, Paris (2012-13). He worked as a Swedish Research Council/Vetenskapsrådet Research Fellow at Lund University, Sweden (2019–2021).