Between the Transnational and the Translational

Language, Identity, and Authorship in Ma Jian's Novels

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3151978
AutoresNicoletta Pesaro (0000-0003-2307-0362, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen38
Número1
Páginas106-126
Fecha de publicación2018-01-06
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCadernos de Tradução (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1414-526X • E-ISSN: 2175-7968
EditorialUniversidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5007/2175-7968.2018v38n1p106
OpenAlexW2606421626
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas5

This paper aims to explore the power exerted by the translator to form cultural identities and to build literary images that often overlap or blur national borders. The sinophone writer Ma Jian’s identity is challenged both in terms of authorship and readership, as his public is a culturally undistinguished “western reader”, and the translator de facto becomes the author. As a representative of the Chinese diaspora, he not only lives in a “deterritorialized” literary space, his novels also share a similar textual instability. Due to his bitter criticism of Chinese government and his internationally recognised role as a dissident writer, his works do not circulate in the People’s Republic of China, and are mainly distributed thanks to the English renditions by Flora Drew

Aesthetics · Art · Audience measurement · China · Chinese literature · Criticism · Diaspora · Linguistics · Literary criticism · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices