Self-Translation as Method: Modern Sinophone Self-Translators and their Transmediated Afterlives (Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies)

This book explores the processes, aesthetics, and politics of literary self-translation and transmediation in the Sinophone world.This volume will be of interest to scholars in literary translation, translation studies, Sinophone studies, and world literature. Self-translation is the process through which the authors translate their own writing into other languages, with transmediation taking this a step further by adapting works from one medium to another.This volume features longitudinal case studies of multicultural Sinophone writers’ practices of self-translation and transmediation, charting seminal authors’ lifelong adaption projects across language, media, and culture to elucidate processes of cultural transcreation.Friedman examines the works of eminent émigré Sinophone authors-Eileen Chang, Kenneth Pai, Ha Jin, and Regina Kanyu Wang-to better understand how they defamiliarize their own texts and memories through the acts of translating and revising their own writing, and how th