Addresses three key areas of literary exploration - translation, inter-text and trans-cultural dialogue Provides a balanced cross-cultural perspective of both the Western canon and Far Eastern cultural heritages Refines a wide range of critical concepts established in translation studies, inter-textuality, migrant and comparative literature

Autorentext
Shuangyi Li is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at Lund University in Sweden. Besides Proust, he is interested in 20th-century European and global modernism(s), transcultural writings by writers of Far Eastern Asian diasporic communities, processes of international canonization, reception studies, translation studies, travel writings, and critical models of world and comparative literature. He is currently working on a project on literature and art of the Chinese diaspora in France within the broader framework of cultural translation and intermediality.

Zusammenfassung

The book traces the literary journey that Proust's work made to China and back by means of translation, intertextual engagement, and the creation of a transcultural dialogue through migrant literature. It begins with a translation history of Proust's work in China and studies the different (re)translations and editions of La Recherche highlighting their culturally conditioned thematic emphases and negligence, such as time and memory over anti-Semitism and homosexuality. The book then moves on to explore three contemporary mainland Chinese writers' creative intertextual engagement with Proust against the backdrop of China's explosive development from modernity to post-modernity in the 1990s. Finally, back to France, the book examines the multifarious literary relations between Proust and the Franco-Chinese migrant writer François Cheng. It demonstrates how the cultural heritages of China and the West can be re-negotiated and put into dialogue through the fictional and creative mediumof literature, as well as providing a means of understanding the economic, political, and cultural exchanges in our current global context.

Inhalt

Introduction.- Part I: The Reception of Proust in China.- Proust and the Chinese Translations.- Proust and Mainland Chinese Writers: La Recherche and Its Postmodern Hypertexts.- Part II: Proust in the Chinese Diaspora: François Cheng's Le Dit de Tianyi.- Intertextual and Paratextual Relations between La Recherche and Le Dit.- Traits chinois / démarche proustienne.- Conclusion.