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Athens Institute for Education and Research

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Conference

7^th Annual International Conference on Languages & Linguistics, 7-10 July 2014, Athens, Greece

Title of Paper

Rewriting or Creation: Self-Translation of Eileen Chang´s The Rice Sprout Song

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First Name

Yu-Fen

Family Name

Tai

Position

assistant Professor

Affiliation

Department of Spanish Language and Literature, Tamkang University

Country

Taiwan

E-mail

[email protected]

Telephone(s)

886-936556660 (office: 886-2-26215656 ext. 3100)

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Abstract

Rewriting or Creation: Self-Translation of Eileen Chang´s The Rice Sprout Song

Elieen Chang, one of the most resplendent stars in the Chinese literature field in 20^th century, has always been admired as a great writer and her works have been widely studied as well. Nevertheless, she is such more famous as writer. Being a translator working on translating her own books, Elieen Chang stretches out her role from being a writer to a translator. This study plans to make a comparison between Elieen Chang’s original English-written book, The Rice Sprout Song, and her self-translated Chinese version,《秧歌》(Yang ge).Eileen Chang coincides in “interfering” her own translation work. This could happen because the writer’ try to accommodate to the reader’s culture, this also could be a result of translator’ ideology when doing the translation. In fact, she is her translation’s “writer”. Is it an ideal paradigm for writers to translate their works? Everybody differs in opinion. According to “The Translator’s Task” by W. Benjamin, the translated work is the “afterlife” of the original work. Translation is “rewriting”, based on Andre Lefevere’s views of ideology and manipulation. This study will explore a different focus for the study of translation.

Keywords

Eileen Chang, Self-translation, The Rice Sprout Song