Indigenous Cultural Translation: A Thick Description of Seediq Bale

ISBN-13: 9781032236391 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 218 str.

Darryl Sterk

Opis

This book celebrates the translation of the Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale (2011) which was filmed mainly in the endangered indigenous language Seediq. 

Spis treści

Introduction: Indigenous Modernity and the Translation of Seediq Bale  1. From Resistance to Compromise: Critical Women in the Mandarin Version  2. Refining the Ore: From Foreignization and Domestication to Fluency  3. The Game of Telephone: Cultural Translation as Adaptation  4. Pacifying the Pine: How to Demilitarize Headhunting Songs  5. The Dialectic of Dmahun: The Thicker Backtranslation of Cultural Keywords  6. From Hako Utux to Rainbow Bridge: Into the Translational Middle Ground  7. Translating Colonial Modernity: Adapting Terminologically  Conclusion: The Thick Description of Indigenous Cultural Translation

O autorze

Darryl Sterk is an Assistant Professor of Translation Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is also a literary translator, especially of fiction from Taiwan.