Western Theory in East Asian Contexts - Translation and Transtextual Rewriting

Literatures, Cultures, Translation presents a new line of books that engage central issues in translation studies such as history, politics, and gender in and of literary translation.Translation studies and adaptation studies are relatively new disciplines. The question of how adaptation should be viewed in relation to translation is still hotly debated. is a significant contribution to the debate because it argues, controversially, and via case studies of Chinese and Japanese literature and popular culture, that while the differences between translation and adaptation studies must be recognized, they are not in fact separate fields.

Product details

• Authors: Leo Tak Chan, Leo Tak-hung Chan
• Assisted by: Brian James Baer (Editor), Michelle Woods (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2020
• EAN: 9781501327834
• ISBN: 978-1-5013-2783-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Literatures, Cultures, Translation; Literatures, Cultures, Transla
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, Translation & interpretation, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Translation and interpretation, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form