{"id":4578,"date":"2019-06-12T20:30:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T12:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4578"},"modified":"2019-06-01T01:48:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T17:48:42","slug":"emily-goedde-on-translating-the-space-between-subjects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4578","title":{"rendered":"Emily Goedde on “translating the space between subjects”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Echoes of I [ ] \u6211: On translating the space between subjects<\/a>“<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Emily Goedde writes about Chinese poetry translation–in particular, translating the poetry of 1930s poet Mu Dan \u7a46\u65e6–at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think about translation as a kind of listening to the echoes created as meaning moves between languages. I mark a space [ ] in the title of my translation of Chinese WWII era poet Mu Dan\u2019s original \u201c\u6211\u201d and my \u201cI\u201d. I ask: What knowledge is generated by putting languages in relation to one another? What can be gained through a greater attention to the process rather than the product of translation? More specifically, what can be discovered within the movement and change occurring in the act of translation between Mu Dan\u2019s study of the individual in his poem \u201c\u6211\u201d and my translation \u201dI\u201d? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Click here to read the translation and her explanation of her process and product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emily Goedde writes about Chinese poetry translation–in particular, translating the poetry of 1930s poet Mu Dan \u7a46\u65e6–at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop: I think about translation as a kind of listening to the echoes created as meaning moves between languages. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2110,2111],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-1bQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4693,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=4693","url_meta":{"origin":4578,"position":0},"title":"Announcing publication of Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"November 29, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs We are pleased to announce publication of\u00a0Chinese Poetry\u00a0and Translation: Rights and Wrongs\u00a0(Amsterdam University\u00a0Press, 2019). 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