PoussiĂšre/bones : on literary self-translatability
This research project considers the potentiality of literary self-translation as an artistic and philosophical question in relation to, and as part of, its potential visual, sonic and material transfiguration. The two-part project â writing and art making â is a form of âbilingualâ project in which the parallel parts converse as in face-Ă -face literary selftranslation. By closely reading texts written by authors who adopt languages of others as primary artistic mediums and self-translate their own works into their mother tongue, another language or a linguistic âextended fieldâ â Samuel Beckett, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Caroline Bergvall, Cathy Park Hong, and Henri Chopin â the written thesis questions ways in which relations between different languages and the self and others could be reconfigured and reimagined through the practice of selftranslation in a space of literary art. As well as defining the characteristics and parameters of explicit self-translation â such as the strong motivation of the bilingual writers to self-translate and the bold omission, deletion, and substitution of words and sentences in a translation which is effectively a second version, which does not merely repeat
Park, Joo Yeon
PoussiĂšre/bones : on literary self-translatability. This research project considers the potentiality of literary self-translation as an artistic and philosophical question in relation to, and as part of, its potential visual, sonic and material transfiguration. The two-part project â writing and art making â is a form of âbilingualâ project in which the parallel parts converse as in face-Ă -face literary selftranslation. By closely reading texts written by authors who adopt languages of others as primary artistic mediums and self-translate their own works into their mother tongue, another language or a linguistic âextended fieldâ â Samuel Beckett, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Caroline Bergvall, Cathy Park Hong, and Henri Chopin â the written thesis questions ways in which relations between different languages and the self and others could be reconfigured and reimagined through the practice of selftranslation in a space of literary art. As well as defining the characteristics and parameters of explicit self-translation â such as the strong motivation of the bilingual writers to self-translate and the bold omission, deletion, and substitution of words and sentences in a translation which is effectively a second version, which does not merely repeat
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