Pub Date : 2024-03-25DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2024.2327617
Neha Kumari, Manoj Kumar Yadav
This article explores the narrative and memory patterns that underlie the evolution of city biography as a genre in the Indian literary context. The late 1970s and early 1980s witnessed a ‘spatial ...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2024.2324997
Veera Valta
This article seeks to explain the tellability of routine videos on YouTube. It examines two videos by two motivational videobloggers, Kalyn Nicholson and Aileen Xu, whose channels include several v...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2024.2323931
Jessica L. Wilkinson
As a (poetic) biographer who has dedicated considerable time to wading through archives and other research materials, I have often found myself wanting my biographical subjects to reveal themselves...
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Pub Date : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2024.2326546
Michael Titlestad
This essay traces my dedication, over two decades, to reconstructing the life of Captain William Mackay of the (English) East India Company. Mackay was second officer on an unseaworthy country ship...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-26DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2024.2313192
Teresa Bruś
This article maps out the relationship between language and objects in life writing by Patti Smith. It examines anchoring effects of books, images, and nameless small things and foregrounds how the...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-19DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2024.2315870
Gay Lynch
Published in Life Writing (Ahead of Print, 2024)
发表于《生活写作》(2024 年提前出版)
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Pub Date : 2024-01-28DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2023.2296752
Kate Douglas, Kylie Cardell, Marina Deller, Emma Maguire, Shannon Sandford
We are colleagues and collaborators working in the field of English Literary Studies, broadly defined. This paper reflects on our collective encounters working as Life Writing scholars within the I...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-03DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2023.2289467
Shefali, Preeti Puri
By closely reading Ravi Thornton’s graphic memoir, HOAX Psychosis Blues, as a testament to her brother Rob’s decade-long battle with schizophrenia, this article dwells on the intersection of life w...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2023.2229064
Erin Nickalls
ABSTRACT This article considers literary translators’ use of mathematical imagery to reject notions of discrete language systems in favour of a proliferative view of language variety. Drawing on research by Michael Cronin, Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour and Clive Scott, the discussion centres on how the active process of translation discloses language’s endless meaning-making potential; and, in turn, how this shapes the translator’s autobiographical encounter with the complexity and ambiguity of how they relate to the world around them. To examine how this plays out in practice, particular focus is given to how this encounter is presented in life writing by: (a) self-translators, such as Ilan Stavans, Julien/an Green, and Ariel Dorfman; and (b) translators of other authors’ work, including Jennifer Croft and Kate Briggs. With reference to these case studies, the translator’s task of reformulating an irreducibly plural source text as a finite target text is seen through the lens of mathematicians’ efforts to represent the fractal heterogeneity of the natural world through neat models and formulas. In considering how translators present the value of their practice, the following discussion explores why translation is frequently championed by those who wish to adopt a thorough yet open-minded approach to literary study.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-28DOI: 10.1080/14484528.2023.2281042
Lily Robert-Foley
ABSTRACT The following text is an excerpted chapter from Noémie Grunenwald’s book Sur les bouts de la langue and Traduire en féministe/s, a translation memoir written in French and devoted to Grunenwald's reflections translating ‘as a feminist’ from English into French. This chapter focusses on her experience translating identity markers such as ‘blackness’, ‘butch’, ‘femme’ and others and the difficulty of translating them into a gendered language such as French. She also reflects on the use of inclusive writing in her translations: word endings and pronouns in French that seek to include both genders and avoid having to choose between two. It is followed by a translator’s coda, a mini-translation memoir that tells the story of the difficulties the translator faced translating the chapter.
ABSTRACT 下文节选自诺埃米-格伦瓦尔德(Noémie Grunenwald)的著作《Sur les bouts de la langue and Traduire en féministe/s》中的一章,这是一本用法语撰写的翻译回忆录,讲述了格伦瓦尔德将 "作为一名女权主义者 "从英语翻译成法语的反思。本章重点介绍了她翻译 "黑人"、"男同性恋"、"女性 "等身份标识的经历,以及将这些标识翻译成法语等性别语言的困难。她还反思了在翻译中使用包容性写作的问题:法语中的词尾和代词力求包含两种性别,避免在两种性别中做出选择。随后是译者的尾声,这是一本小型翻译回忆录,讲述了译者在翻译这一章时所面临的困难。
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