An Ojibwe Daphnis and Chloe
David Treuer's The Translation of Dr. Apelles
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12427509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William K Freiert (Gustavus Adolphus College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 57-66 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mediterranean Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1074-164X • E-ISSN: 2161-4741 |
| Publisher | The Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5325/mediterraneanstu.21.1.0057 |
| OpenAlex | W460608077 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
In The Translation of Dr. Apelles, Ojibwe novelist David Treuer creates a reclusive scholar named Dr. Apelles who translates a newly discovered Native American manuscript. This manuscript turns out to be an Ojibwe version of Longus's second-century Greek novel Daphnis and Chloe. As he translates the work, Dr. Apelles falls in love with a beautiful woman named Campaspe, just as his namesake, the famous Hellenistic painter, did. Treuer's novel serves as a postmodern exemplum of his literary theory that Native literature should be judged by aesthetic rather than anthropological criteria and that all reality is a text to be “translated.”
Art · Art history · Literature · Painting · Postmodernism · Classics · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Philosophy · Publishing and Scholarly Communication
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |