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Publication details [#4984]

Cheung, Martha P. Y. 1998. The discourse of occidentalism? Wei Yi and Lin Shu’s treatment of religious material in their translation of Uncle Tom’s cabin. In Pollard, David E., ed. Translation and creation: readings of western literature in early modern China, 1840-1918 (Benjamins Translation Library 25). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 127–150.
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Keywords
adaptation | comparative research=contrastive research | concept | discourse | ideology | literary translation | occidentalism | orientalism | postcolonialism=colonialism | religious translation=religious discourse=religion
Source language
English
Target language
Chinese
Person as a subject
Shu, Lin | Stowe, Harriet Beecher | Yi, Wei
Title as subject
Uncle Tom's Cabin

Abstract

This article consists of two main parts. The first part provides a source text/translated text comparison that concentrates on how Wei Yi and Lin Shu tackle the religious material in their joint translation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The second part is devoted to an examination of the implications of the findings in the first part in the theoretical setting of discourse and ideology, making use of the notions of ‘orientalism’ and ‘occidentalism’ as working concepts.
Source : J. Vluijmans