The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia Saussy Haun
The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia Saussy Haun A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850--with important…
Specifikacia The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia Saussy Haun
The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia Saussy Haun
A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850--with important ramifications for todayDebates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique. The Making of Barbarians offers an account of world literature in which China, as center, produces its own margins. But literature is a universe with many centers, and one of them is China.
In contrast, Saussy focuses on Here Sinologist and comparatist Haun Saussy investigates the meanings of literary translation, adaptation, and appropriation on the boundaries of China long before it came into sustained contact with the West.When scholars talk about comparative literature in Asia, they tend to focus on translation between European languages and Chinese, Korean, and Japanese, as practiced since about 1900.