Professor Harry Aveling, PhD (NUS) DCA (UTS), holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Translation Studies. Monash University. During his visit to The University of Queensland, Professor Aveling delivered a public lecture titled, “The translator gives it visible form”: Translanguaging and Transculturing Literature. You can listen to the podcast below.
Abstract
Translation is not only about finding new words to replace old words in another language. A.H. Johns has written, “The linguistic problem, par excellence, facing the student of cultural history working from written sources, is the specification of meaning and its transposition from one cultural situation to another” (1965: 531). The lecture will discuss how different types of literary translations have been constructed – using mimetic, analogical, organic and deviant forms – and how these approaches will present particular images of other cultures for their new audiences. It will focus particularly on classical and modern texts from Indonesian literature, with the hope that translators from other languages will be stimulated to consider how those other literatures have been translated in the past and how they might be better translated in the future.
Presenter
Professor Harry Aveling, PhD (NUS) DCA (UTS), holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Translation Studies. Monash University. He has translated extensively from Indonesian, Malay and Francophone Vietnamese literatures, and co-translated from Hindi. His most recent books are Nam and Sylvie by Pham Duy Khiem (The Gioi Publishers, Hanoi), and Red Gerberas by Sitor Situmorang (Silkworm Books, Thailand).
