Full Description
Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs' offers fifteen essays on the triptych of poetry + translation + Chinese. The collection has three parts: The Translator's Take, Theoretics, and Impact. The conversation stretches from queer-feminist engagement with China's newest poetry to philosophical and philological reflections on its oldest, and from Tang- and Song-dynasty classical poetry in Western languages to Baudelaire and Celan in Chinese. Translation is taken as an interlingual and intercultural act, and the essays foreground theoretical expositions and the practice of translation in equal but not opposite measure. Poetry has a transforming yet ever-acute relevance in Chinese culture, and this makes it a good entry point for studying Chinese-foreign encounters. Pushing past oppositions that still too often restrict discussions of translation-form versus content, elegance versus accuracy, and the original versus the translated - this volume brings a wealth of new thinking to the interrelationships between poetry, translation, and China. Stretching from queer-feminist engagement with China's newest poetry to philological reflection on its oldest, this book brings a wealth of new thinking to the interrelationships between poetry, translation, and China.
Contents
Acknowledgments, Contributors, Introduction: The Weird Third Thing Maghiel van Crevel and Lucas Klein Conventions Part One: The Translator's Take 1. Sitting with Discomfort: A Queer-Feminist Approach to Translating Yu Xiuhua Jenn Marie Nunes 2. Working with Words: Poetry, Translation, and Labor Eleanor Goodman 3. Translating Great Distances: The Case of the Shijing Joseph R. Allen 4. Purpose and Form: On the Translation of Classical Chinese Poetry Wilt L. Idema Part Two: Theoretics 5. Embodiment in the Translation of Chinese Poetry Nick Admussen 6. Translating Theory: Bei Dao, Pasternak, and Russian Formalism Jacob Edmond 7. Narrativity in Lyric Translation: English Translation of Chinese Ci Poetry Zhou Min 8. Sublimating Sorrow: How to Embrace Contradiction in Translating the Li Sao Nicholas Morrow Williams 9. Mediation Is Our Authenticity: Dagong Poetry and the Shijing in Translation Lucas Klein Part Three: Impact 10. Ecofeminism avant la lettre: Chen Jingrong and Baudelaire Liansu Meng 11. The Trope of Life and the Translation of Western Modernist Poetry in Hong Kong Chris Song 12. Lyrical Montage: Modernist Poetry in Taiwan through the Lens of Translation Tara Coleman 13. Celan's Deathfugue in Chinese: A Polemic about Translation and Everything Else Joanna Krenz 14. Trauma in Translation: Liao Yiwu's Massacre in English and German Rui Kunze 15. A Noble Art, and a Tricky Business: Translation Anthologies of Chinese Poetry Maghiel van Crevel.
