Wuhan Diary Review: Weaponized Translation?
https://u.osu.edu/mclc/2020/08/19/wuhan-diary-review-2/#more-34857
In a time of pandemic, what is the role of literature, particularly the form of online diary—the daily-based documentary genre that first appears on social media and is then translated into foreign languages and published in print abroad? Must the translator bear the burden of xenophobia from the nation of the source language?
Comments
An excellent in depth review. Very useful for including the relevant parts of the Chinese original when quoting from Berry's English translation.
TDyson, September 1, 2020, 1:08p.m.
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