概论《西游记》在英美世界的本土化缘起

On the Genesis of Domestication of Journey to the West in Britain and America

随着20世纪80年代《西游记》两大英语全译本的发行,《西游记》译介首次得以向英美国家展示整体的、全方位的西游知识。在全球化合作背景下,《西游记》非译介作品基本上都是以西方形象、叙事和精神为主线并以东方元素为点缀,重构英美世界的西游故事,进而推动《西游记》在英美世界进入译介和非译介本土化的深入期。译介给《西游记》在英美世界的本土化提供了发生缘起,只有解决了缘起问题,才能深入探讨译介和非译介在《西游记》英美本土化流变中经历的过程、发挥的作用、做出的贡献和揭示的规律等。

With the publication of the complete English versions of Journey to the West in the 1980s,the Chinese book was fully introduced to the readers of Britain and America in an all-around way for the first time.As a result of global cooperation,non-translational works of Journey to the West give priority to western readaptation and recreation of the eastern characterization,narration and spiritualization and hence make the Chinese story culturally domesticated in Britain and America,which facilitates the further domestication of translation and non-translation of Journey to the West.Translation contributes to the genesis of domestication of Journey to the West in Britain and America and the study of genesis of domestication will help explore the process,role,contribution and mechanism of translation and non-translation in the domestication of Journey to the West in Britain and America.