Another Type of ‘Old Tales Retold’

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_2158
dc.contributor.author	Pesaro Nicoletta
dc.title	Another Type of ‘Old Tales Retold’. Translation and Self-Translation, Intertextuality and Self-Intertextuality in Zhang Ailing’s Works
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	This papers deals with Zhang Ailing’s (1920-1995) posthumous novel, Xiao tuanyuan 小团圆 (Little Reunions), written in the ’70s of the last century but completed just before her death, finally published only in 2009, which is an example of the continuous manipulation of the same narrative materials used in previous works, and re-presented here through a politics of self-translation and self-intertextuality. In translating this novel one is confronted with a complex “mosaic of quotations” as Kristeva says, and self-quotations, and is dragged into a forest of meanings derived from the juxtaposition of a variety of external ‘voices’ that mix up with the internal voice of the author. This Bachtinian or babelian quality of the novel, in other words its pluri- and interdiscursivity, challenges the translator, who is called not only to reconstruct the original sources of the allusions, but is also caught between the need of disambiguation and the respect of the intertextual connections implied by the text; he/she has also to cope with the deliberate narrative fragmentation adopted by Zhang.
dc.relation.ispartof	Translating Wor(l)ds
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2018-12-31
dc.dateAccepted	2018-08-27
dc.dateSubmitted	2018-07-30
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-311-3/another-type-of-old-tales-retold/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/978-88-6969-311-3/005
dc.identifier.issn	2610-9131
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-914X
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-312-0
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-311-3
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Intertextuality
dc.subject	Intertextuality
dc.subject	Pluridiscursivity
dc.subject	Pluridiscursivity
dc.subject	Self-translation
dc.subject	Self-translation
dc.subject	Translation
dc.subject	Translation
dc.subject	Zhang Ailing’s novels
dc.subject	Zhang Ailing’s novels

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Another Type of ‘Old Tales Retold’

Translation and Self-Translation, Intertextuality and Self-Intertextuality in Zhang Ailing’s Works

Nicoletta Pesaro Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italia

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This papers deals with Zhang Ailing’s (1920-1995) posthumous novel, Xiao tuanyuan 小团圆 (Little Reunions), written in the ’70s of the last century but completed just before her death, finally published only in 2009, which is an example of the continuous manipulation of the same narrative materials used in previous works, and re-presented here through a politics of self-translation and self-intertextuality. In translating this novel one is confronted with a complex “mosaic of quotations” as Kristeva says, and self-quotations, and is dragged into a forest of meanings derived from the juxtaposition of a variety of external ‘voices’ that mix up with the internal voice of the author. This Bachtinian or babelian quality of the novel, in other words its pluri- and interdiscursivity, challenges the translator, who is called not only to reconstruct the original sources of the allusions, but is also caught between the need of disambiguation and the respect of the intertextual connections implied by the text; he/she has also to cope with the deliberate narrative fragmentation adopted by Zhang.

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Dec. 31, 2018

Accepted

Aug. 27, 2018

Submitted

July 30, 2018

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978-88-6969-312-0

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978-88-6969-311-3

Keywords: Translation • Self-translation • Intertextuality • Pluridiscursivity • Zhang Ailing’s novels

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