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Translation/re-creation : Southwest Chinese Naxi manuscripts in the West
- Title
- Translation/re-creation : Southwest Chinese Naxi manuscripts in the West / Duncan Poupard.
- Author
- Poupard, Duncan
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- x, 210 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This book is a historical study of European-language translations of Naxi ritual manuscripts, the ritual literature of a small ethnic group living in southwest China's Yunnan Province. The author discusses the translations into European languages (in English, French and German) from the late 19th century to the second half of the twentieth century, revealing a history of fragmentary yet interconnected translation efforts in the West. By exploring this network, he shows how translation can be understood as a metonymic "recreation" of textual worlds. As Naxi manuscripts are semi-oral texts representing an oral-formulaic tradition, their translation involves a metonymic relay of partial incorporations from manuscript/image to reading/spoken language. Therefore, the book engages in a series of textual excavations to uncover the previously occluded contemporaneous readings that would have led to the translations we can consult today, particularly in an attempt to understand how the Naxi literature has become part of Ezra Pound's Cantos. Scholars in the field of ethnic minority literature in China and translation studies will find this book beneficial, and it will make new contributions to comparative literature between the East and West"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge studies in Chinese comparative literature and culture
- Uniform Title
- Routledge studies in Chinese comparative literature and culture.
- Subject
- Naxi literature > Translations into English > History and criticism
- Naxi literature > Translations into French > History and criticism
- Naxi literature > Translations into German > History and criticism
- Manuscripts, Naxi > China > Yunnan Sheng > History
- Naxi (Chinese people) > China > Yunnan Sheng > Civilization
- Naxi language > Writing
- Manuscripts, Naxi
- China > Yunnan Sheng
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 22-2092
- ISBN
- 9781032136240
- 1032136243
- 9781032136349
- 1032136340
- LCCN
- 2021028208
- OCLC
- 1256628304
- Author
- Poupard, Duncan, author.
- Title
- Translation/re-creation : Southwest Chinese Naxi manuscripts in the West / Duncan Poupard.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge studies in Chinese comparative literature and cultureRoutledge studies in Chinese comparative literature and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Poupard, Duncan Translation/re-creation New York : Routledge, 2021 9781003230205 (DLC) 2021028209
- Research Call Number
- JFE 22-2092