新时期中国女作家与异域传播:不同视阈与定向诠释

A Comparative Study of the English Translation of Chinese Women Writers by Local and Anglophone World(1979-2010)

本文在梳理1979～2010年间新时期中国本土女作家作品英译实绩的基础上对比本土和英语世界两种不同的译介路径,考察各自的译介性质、目的、特征以及策略,并着重从政治、性别和审美诗学三个维度阐释英语世界的译介行为,探究其诠释偏好以及背后的文化、社会和意识形态渊源,展示因此构建的中国女作家作品样态,解释与本土原始图景之间的差异和错位;从性别研究的角度考察本土译介行为,凸显官方身份与性别政治之间的交织与利用,揭示官方声音对女作家性别身份的借用,突出本土构建正面自我形象的努力,以期认清"他者"之成见,厘清他我之关系,为中国文学的海外传播提供有效的借鉴和启示。

This paper examines the respective efforts of Chinese Literature Press （CLP） and Anglophone translators in rendering Chinese women writers into English after the Cultural Revolution. It aims to explore the highly selective nature in their choice of intended translations and demonstrate how the image of Chinese fictional literature and society is constructed. Different orientations of both sides are explored： Anglophone world constructs a somewhat stereotyped image of Chinese literature and society with a strong interest in works highly westernized or with strong political implications, while local institution attempts to present a more truthful and positive image of China with a preference to realistic literature and an exclusion of feminist writing. CLP＇s negligence of some writings featuring female awareness displays its somewhat conscious or unconscious tendency of rendering China＇s overall image by the name of ＂women＂.