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Translating the Dialect of the Tribe: Language and Identity in Sinophone Bai Writing

DEPARTMENT:

Centre for Translation

CONYTRIBUTOR / SPEAKER:

POUPARD, Duncan

RELEASE DATE:

2018

LENGTH:

106 Minutes

VIDEO TYPE:

Scholarly Talks

How can minority writers within China assert their own linguistic individualism whilst also writing in Chinese? Ethnic minority works which deal with local culture, including customs, rituals and traditional legends, can generally be divided into two groups: writing in standard Chinese, and works that are composed in native scripts. Most ethnic minority writing that can go beyond the local level to connect with a national or even global audience is published in Chinese – hence the label Sinophone writing. The subject of this seminar, the Bai people, are one such minority nationality within China, who live in and around the city of Dali in ethnically-diverse Yunnan Province. The Bai have their own language, sometimes classed as belonging to the Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman, and have been living in the region for thousands of years. Nevertheless, they are often cited as one of the most 'Sinicised' of China's ethnic groups. This means that the Bai are caught between two linguistic and cultural worlds: somewhere between Sinitic and Lolo-Burmese, a situation that is reflected in their writing. As they write in Chinese, they inevitably translate their own language and culture, inserting non-Chinese words and cultural context into the Chinese text. In this case, their native language is the 'source' language that is self-translated. This seminar investigates how Sinophone Bai authors use Chinese to reflect their own identity, employing translation to challenge a homogenized notion of 'Chineseness' in their writing. They do this by inserting Bai language into Chinese writing via various transformational strategies, such as glossing and the use of untranslated words, making Sinophone minority writers authors of translational texts and cultural translators in their own right.

Translating the Dialect of the Tribe: Language and Identity in Sinophone Bai Writing

部門:

翻譯學研究中心

講者:

POUPARD, Duncan

發佈日期:

2018

影片長度:

106 分鐘

影片類型:

學術論壇

Translating the Dialect of the Tribe: Language and Identity in Sinophone Bai Writing

部门:

翻译学研究中心

讲者:

POUPARD, Duncan

发布日期:

2018

影片长度:

106 分钟

影片类型:

学术论坛

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