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

This book explores the process, 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 here understood as the process through which authors translate their own writing into other languages, with transmediation taking this a step further by adapting work from one medium to another.The volume features longitudinal case studies of multicultural Sinophone writers’ practices of self-translation and transmediation, charting seminal authors’ lifelong processes across languages, media, and cultures 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 toward better understanding how they defamiliarize their own texts and memories in the act of translating and revising their own writing and w