Overview
- Provides a comprehensive study of Goldblatt’s translation of Mo Yan’s work
- Examines the production, reception and dissemination of translation
- Exposes how Goldblatt translates the novel under the influence of three major manipulative powers
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting (PTTI)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book presents an in-depth analysis of Howard Goldblatt’s translation of Mo Yan’s Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (L&D). It explores how Goldblatt translates the original novel under the influence of three major manipulative powers: poetics, ideology and patronage, as well as his own subjectivity (translator subjectivity), to achieve his objectives as a literary translator. The author analyses both the translation and its paratext to gain a more complete understanding of Goldblatt’s accomplishments, and examines how Goldblatt rewrites the original text under the influence of various patronage factors, such as the original author, publisher, editor, market expectancy, literary collaborator, and the target reader. This book provides a comprehensive picture of the production, reception and dissemination of Goldblatt’s translation, exposing the motivations behind his translation in full measure, and it will be of interest to students and scholars of Translation Studies, Comparative Literature and Literary Studies, and Chinese Culture and Literature.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Hu Liu is lecturer at West Anhui University, China. He completed his PhD in translation studies at the University of Sydney, Australia, from 2016 to 2021.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Rewriting, Manipulation and Translator Subjectivity
Book Subtitle: Translating Chinese Literature in a Global Context
Authors: Hu Liu
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-53529-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53528-4Published: 13 March 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53531-4Due: 13 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53529-1Published: 12 March 2024
Series ISSN: 2947-5740
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5759
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 237
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Comparative Literature, Literature, general, Asian Culture