Morning Glories of the Night”
Angela Carter’s Translational Poetics in Fireworks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12920417 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère (0000-0003-2392-8656, University of Lausanne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 135-152 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary Women s Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1754-1476 • E-ISSN: 1754-1484 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/cww/vpac022 |
| OpenAlex | W4379108908 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 1 |
Translation plays a central role as a creative method in Angela Carter’s Fireworks (1974). The collection of stories showcases Carter’s multilingual musings on the word hanabi by opening with “A Souvenir of Japan,” which records a brief moment of bliss during the Japanese summer festival, captured in the image of the “morning glories of the night.” It then builds on its literary and cultural resonances in English, French, and Japanese to form a variegated bouquet of stories linked by the flower motif that gives the collection its aesthetic identity. Infused by Carter’s experience of Japan and memories of Baudelaire, Buñuel, and Bashō, Fireworks exemplifies Carter’s translational poetics as a mode of writing blossoming across intertwined languages, cultures, and art forms
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Biology · BLISS · Fireworks · Literature · Morning · Poetics · Poetry · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · Philippine History and Culture · Translation Studies and Practices · History
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |