A study on alienation effect for Chinese-Korean cultural translation of minority literature.

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 59-78
Author(s):  
Hye-Kyung Kim ◽  
◽  
Jung-Soon Lee
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Minority Literature ◽  
Alienation Effect

scholarly journals When Memory is Cross-Cultural Translation: Eva Hoffman’s Schizophrenic Autobiography

2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 259-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Ingram
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Self ◽  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Minor Literature ◽  
Minority Literature ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Underlying Assumption

Abstract When Memory is Cross-Cultural Translation: Eva Hoffman's Schizophrenic Autobiography — This article approaches the question of what happens when the text to be translated or rewritten as a result of cross-cultural experience is the self — how is the resulting autobiography to be read? Its answer takes the form of the theorizing of Deleuze and Guattari. It is contended that the potentiality characterizing the position of linguistic alterity experienced by bilingual authors, such as Hoffman, is the underlying assumption in Deleuze and Guattari's work. By identifying the connections between schizophrenia and minor literature and by delineating minor from minority literature, one can better understand the dynamics necessitating self-translation and the forms which cross-cultural writing can take.

Josephus

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. D. Elledge
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Translation ◽  
Hellenistic Philosophy

The only early Jewish author to have written a surviving description of what his contemporaries believed about the afterlife was Josephus, yet his testimonies about the afterlife are complex historical, literary, and apologetic descriptions. They cannot be immediately corroborated by contemporary writings; nor should they be exclusively categorized as a purely Hellenizing literary construction that had no relationship to actual Jewish eschatological beliefs. To understand his testimonies to the afterlife, it is ultimately necessary to address how Josephus wrote about the afterlife. This chapter argues that his treatment of the afterlife can be reasonably explained as an apologetic cultural translation that made use of established doxographic and ethnographic techniques. His descriptions of the afterlife are, thus, an important window into his own compositional methods. In translating Jewish eschatological hopes into the categories of Hellenistic philosophy, Josephus also anticipates the strategies of later Christian apologists.

Silhouettes analysis: a posthuman method for visualizing and examining the material world

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879412199901
Author(s):  
Grit Höppner
Keyword(s):  
Image Analysis ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Material World ◽  
Agential Realism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Alienation Effect ◽  
Classical Image ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Image Details

In recent decades, postmodern, poststructuralist, and social constructivist theories, and the methodologies and methods they have informed, have been criticized for focusing primarily on human actors, discourses, and actions. Simultaneously, so-called posthuman theories have been developed that decentralize the human, reject an unquestioned use of the dualism of human/nonhuman, and emphasize the importance of the material world in the production of the social. A key concern for current qualitative inquiry is to develop methods that contribute to the critique of human-centered analysis. In this article, I explore what we learn about the material world when we do not use verbal methods or written data but image details of moveable formations, which are made into silhouettes using Karen Barad’s agential realism. After introducing posthuman methodology I perform a silhouettes analysis focusing on old age. The intention is to demonstrate that silhouettes analysis makes it possible to gain new insights into the features of materialities of old age in a way that classical image analysis would not allow. In addition, silhouettes analysis produces an alienation effect that disturbs practiced viewing habits and assumptions, and can thus serve as a research tool promoting reflection. I conclude with a discussion of the advantages and limitations of silhouettes analysis for gerontological and posthuman research.

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