Translating Traumatic Memory of Twentieth-Century China: Diasporic Literary Works of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and Their Translations

翻译二十世纪中国的创伤记忆：1937年南京大屠杀的流散文学作品及其翻译

• 批准号: 2750477
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2750477
• 关键词: Translating; Traumatic; Memory; Twentieth; Century

My project investigates translation and the traumatic memory of twentieth-century China, specificallyaddressing how diasporic literary works and their translations reconstruct and transmit the memory ofthe Nanjing Massacre across borders, cultures, and generations. The Nanjing Massacre, where over300,000 Chinese people died and whose survivors have decreased to 61 today, has enormous andenduring influence not only on Chinese society, but also on East Asia. Existing studies have examinedthe literary memorialisations of traumatic moments in Chinese history, including the Great Famine,Cultural Revolution, and the Tiananmen Square Protests, in a wide range of works by contemporarywriters from mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong through the theoretical lenses of postmodernism,poststructuralism, and postcolonialism (Yang 2002; Berry 2011, 2016; Feng 2017; Hillenbrand 2017,2020). Comparatively, my project offers the first investigation of the interconnections betweentranslation, contemporary Chinese diasporic literature, and the memory of the Nanjing Massacre, whichwill not only shed important light on our comprehension of the interlingual and cross-cultural dimensionsof trauma writing and memory formation, but also bring greater reflection on the interweaving of Chinesehistory, memory, and representation.I will offer a comparative textual analysis drawing on an interdisciplinary framework underpinned bySusan Bassnett's conception of 'translation as remembering' (2003, 2011) and Bella Brozki's argumentsabout 'translation as a kind of critical and dynamic displacement' and 'critical processual translation'(2007). Specifically, I will examine different Chinese translations of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking(1998, 2005, 2007, 2013, 2015) to elaborate how retranslation rebuilds and transmits the memory of theMassacre across generations, and examine its Japanese and Korean translations to explore howtranslation reframes the memory of the Massacre in different political, social, and cultural contexts. I willalso compare the Chinese translation of Shouhua Qi's When the Purple Mountain Burns with its Englishoriginal to investigate how self-translation informs the formation of massacre memories. This work will becompleted in the second year of my PhD (2022/2023). Then I will explore trans-medial translation as avector transmitting trauma memory by examining the English translation and film and TV adaptations ofGeling Yan's The Flowers of War. Beyond the study of translated texts, I will adopt the metaphoricalconcept of translation to approach how diasporic literature as a form of translation transmits andreconstructs the memory of the Massacre overseas by examining cultural hybridity and exophonicwriting in Ha Jin's Nanjing Requiem and Hong Zheng's Nanjing Never Cries. These tasks will be finished inthe third year (2023/2024)

我的项目调查了二十世纪中国的翻译和创伤记忆，特别关注流散文学作品及其翻译如何跨越国界、文化和代际重建和传播南京大屠杀的记忆。南京大屠杀造成超过30万中国人民死亡，幸存者已减少到今天的61人，不仅对中国社会，而且对东亚地区产生了巨大而持久的影响。现有的研究通过后现代主义、后结构主义和后殖民主义的理论视角，考察了中国大陆、台湾和香港当代作家的一系列作品中对中国历史创伤时刻的文学纪念，包括大饥荒、文化大革命和天安门广场抗议(Yang 2002; Berry 2011, 2016; Feng 2017; 希伦布兰德 2017,2020）。相比之下，我的项目首次对翻译、当代中国流散文学和南京大屠杀记忆之间的相互关系进行了调查，这不仅将为我们理解创伤书写和记忆形成的跨语言和跨文化维度提供重要的启示，而且也会对中国历史、记忆和再现的交织带来更多的反思。 借鉴了苏珊·巴斯内特（Susan Bassnett）的“翻译作为记忆”（2003，2011）概念和贝拉·布罗兹基（Bella Brozki）关于“翻译作为一种批判性和动态位移”和“批判性过程翻译”（2007年）的论点所支撑的跨学科框架。具体来说，我将考察张纯如的《南京大屠杀》（1998、2005、2007、2013、2015）的不同中文译本，以阐述重译如何在不同的政治、社会和文化背景下重建和传播大屠杀的记忆，并考察其日文和韩文翻译，以探讨翻译如何在不同的政治、社会和文化背景下重构大屠杀的记忆。我还将比较齐寿华的《紫金山燃烧时》的中文译本和英文原作，以探讨自译如何影响屠杀记忆的形成。这项工作将在我博士学位的第二年（2022/2023）完成。然后我将通过考察严歌苓的《金陵十三钗》的英译和影视改编来探讨跨媒体翻译作为传递创伤记忆的载体。除了翻译文本的研究之外，我将通过审视哈金的《南京安魂曲》和洪正的《南京不哭》中的文化混杂性和外显写作，采用翻译的隐喻概念来探讨流散文学作为一种翻译形式如何在海外传播和重建大屠杀的记忆。这些任务将在第三年（2023/2024）完成