James St. Andre Translating China as Cross-Identity Performance 9780824869878

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Автор: James St. Andre
Название: Translating China as Cross-Identity Performance
ISBN: 9780824869878
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Литература: история и критика

История Азии

Культурология

Гендерные исследования, гендерные группы

ISBN-10: 0824869877
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 336
Вес: 0.59 кг.
Дата издания: 30.05.2018
Серия: Literature/Literary Studies
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 6 black & white illustrations
Размер: 226 x 155 x 25
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Literature: history & criticism,Literary studies: general,Asian history,Cultural studies,Gender studies, gender groups, HISTORY / Asia / China,LITERARY CRITICISM / Asian / Chinese,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: This provocative new book applies the perspective of cross-identity performance to the translation of a wide variety of Chinese texts into English and French from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Drawing on scholarship in cultural studies, queer studies, and anthropology, James St. André argues that many cross-identity performance techniques, including blackface, passing, drag, mimicry, and masquerade, provide new insights into the history of translation practice. He makes a strong case for situating translation in its historical, social, and cultural milieu, reading translated texts alongside a wide variety of other materials that helped shape the image of “John Chinaman.”A reading of the life and works of George Psalmanazar, whose cross-identity performance as a native of Formosa enlivened early eighteenth-century salons, opens the volume and provides a bridge between the book’s theoretical framework and its examination of Chinese-European interactions. The core of the book consists of a chronological series of cases, each of which illustrates the use of a different type of cross-identity performance to better understand translation practice. St. André provides close readings of early pseudotranslations, including Marana’s Turkish Spy (1691) and Goldsmith’s Citizen of the World (1762), as well as adaptations of Hatchett’s The Chinese Orphan (1741) and Voltaire’s Orphelin de la Chine (1756). Later chapters explore Davis’ translation of Sorrows of Han (1829) and genuine translations of non-fictional material mainly by employees of the East India Company. The focus then shifts to oral/aural aspects of early translation practice in the nineteenth century using the concept of mimicry to examine interactions between Pidgin English and translation in the popular press. Finally, the work of two early modern Chinese translators, Gu Hongming and Lin Yutang, is examined as masquerade.Offering an original and innovative study of genres of writing that are traditionally examined in isolation, St. André’s work provides a fascinating examination of the way three cultures interacted through the shifting encounters of fiction, translation, and non-fiction and in the process helped establish and shape the way Chinese were represented. The book represents a major contribution to translation studies, Chinese cultural studies, post-colonial studies, and gender criticism.

Translating China as Cross-Identity Performance, James St. Andre