AUSIT SA/NT Presents: Self-translation and Translingual Writing

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There are those who have the option of writing in more than one language and translating themselves into different cultures and languages. What are the cultural and linguistic challenges associated with such a practice? Can the theory of translanguaging shed any light on this?

The historical and cultural context of an interchange between Chinese and Japanese linguistics through Li Kotomi’s practice offers a fascinating insight for those interested in translation and the subtleties of language(s) and culture(s). In our talk we will discuss three versions of Li’s novel Hitorimai in three languages to demonstrate how Li’s practice of self-translation and translanguaging muddles traditional boundaries between cul­ture and language.

Biography - Yahia Ma

Yahia Ma is a Ph.D. candidate in Translation Studies at The University of Melbourne. An active translator, Yahia translates texts on contemporary Chinese art and queer literature from Taiwan. His recent translations can be found in Queer Taiwanese Literature: A reader (2021) and Queer Time: A Notebook of Taiwanese Tongzhi Literature (2021). His critical work can be found in TranscUlturAl: A Journal of Cultural and Translation Studies, TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Melbourne Asia Review, Translation Studies, and elsewhere. Yahia is co-editor of Queer Literature in the Sinosphere (with A/Prof Hongwei Bao) (forthcoming 2024).

Biography - Dr Tets Kimura 

Dr Tets Kimura graduated with a PhD in International Relations (2019) from Flinders University where he holds academic status. He completed the British Centre for Literary Translation Summer School (2012) at the University of East Anglia. He translated Kuro Tanino’s The Dark Master, a theatre production staged at the 2019 OzAsia Festival, which was published in Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies (2021). He co-chaired the 2018 AUSIT national conference, and edited a special edition of FULGOR on the conference theme of “Intercultural Aspects of Translation, Interpreting and Communication”. His works on modern Taiwan studies have appeared in a number of academic journals including Asian Anthropology, Fashion Theory, and most recently Melbourne Asia Review.

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