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Eileen Chang: The Performativity of Self-Translation

By (author) Jessica Tsui-yan Li

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Eileen Chang: The Performativity of Self-Translation by Jessica Tsui-yan Li focuses on the self-translation of Zhang Ailing 張愛玲 (Eileen Chang, 1920–1995), one of the most important Chinese writers of the twentieth century. Although self-translation is overlooked in most studies of her work, Chang’s literary achievements are attributed in part to her lifelong self-translation of her lived experiences and family sagas, as well as her bilingualism. This book enriches current studies of self-translation by proposing a new hypothesis of theorizing self-translation as a performative act, characterized by its in-betweenness and the aesthetic freedom that the self-translator enjoys, contextualized within larger debates about translation and the specific practice of self-translation in Chinese history in comparison to its Western counterpart.

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Publisher | Brill
Published date | 26 Jun 2025
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 322
Dimensions | 235 x 155 x 26mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 663g
ISBN | 978-9-0047-2717-5
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