| Description |
1 online resource (263 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies |
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Routledge advances in translation studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface: Translationscapes in Southeast Asia -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- 1 Traversing the Peninsulas and Archipelagos: Translationscapes in Antipodean Southeast Asia -- Southeast Asia Translated: From the Logic of Adjacency to the Logic of Antipodes -- Antipodes, Heterotopia, and the Uncanny Landscape of Translation -- Traversing the Southeast Asian Translationscape -- Archipelagic Relations in the Southeast Asian Translationscape -- Notes -- References |
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Part I Mapping Uncharted Terrains -- 2 The Changing Contours of Cambodia's Landscape of Translation -- Introduction -- The Literary Glory of Angkor: Sanskrit Eulogistic Inscriptions (Prasasti) as Objects of Translation -- The Modern Era of Translation and the Disruptive Consequences of French -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Epiphytic Literatures: A Botanical Metaphor for Indic-Vernacular Bitexts in Southeast Asia -- Abbreviation: Pali-Vietnamese Narratives of Hộ Tông -- Expansion: A Pali-Shan Discourse By U Paññabhoga |
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Reinterpretation: Scriptural Justification in a Pali-Khmer Legal Text -- Exposition: Questions and Answers in the Oldest Pali-Lao Bitext -- Versification: Meter and Affect in the Oldest Pali-Siamese Bitext -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Singularity, Untranslatability, Creolization -- 4 One Thai: The Politics of Singularity in the Thai Landscape of Translation -- Introduction -- The Politics of Singularity as the Politics of the "Singular Plural" Linguistic Geo-Body -- The Linguistic Landscape in Thailand -- Singularizing Standard (Bangkok) Thai and Pluralizing Thai Dialects |
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Language Policies and the Making of Linguistic Geo-Body -- The Politics of Singularity in Thailand's Translation Practices -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 Translating Aporia(s): The Figure of (Un)translatability in Kim Thúy's Vietnamese-Canadian Refugee Novel Mãn -- Language and Non-Encounters With Vietnam -- Translating Relations -- Impossible Romance and the Necessary Co-Figuration of Translation -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 Sinophone Thainess: The Problematic Landscape of Creolization in the Thai-Chinese Translation Zone -- Introduction -- Creolization |
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Historical Trajectories Towards the Creolized Thai-Chinese Translation Zone -- Educational Landscape -- Thai Modes of Creolizing Sinophone Writing -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part III Precarious Urban and Gentrified Translationscapes -- 7 An Urban Pastoral in Laos: Translating George Sand in (Post)colonial Vientiane -- Introduction -- Colonial Modernity and Lao Literary Landscape -- Vientiane in Transition and Translation -- Idyllic Chronotope: Translation, Nostalgia, and Affective Landscape -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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8 Grime to Shine: The Gentrification of Singapore's Vernacular Literature in Translation |
| Subject |
Translating and interpreting-Southeast Asia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rafael, Vicente L
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| ISBN |
9781000896787 |
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1000896781 |
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