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Article: Visuality and translation in contemporary Chinese literary art: Xu Bing’s A Book from the Sky and A Book from the Ground
Title | Visuality and translation in contemporary Chinese literary art: Xu Bing’s A Book from the Sky and A Book from the Ground |
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Issue Date | 2014 |
Publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rtis20#.U2c2RPmSx1Y |
Citation | Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 2014, v. 1 n. 1, p. 43-62 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This article examines two works by contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky and A Book from the Ground. Focusing on the relationship between text and image in each of these works, it explores the relation between verbality and visuality in multimodal literary-art. It argues that the schema of image-in-text and image-as-text underline different discourses of communication as articulated in these works. A Book from the Sky expresses a negative view of the communicative potential of language by masking up the verbal signifier as an image and puncturing it of semantic meaning. A Book from the Ground, on the other hand, envisions a futuristic realm with a radically different linguistic order, where verbal texts are functionally taken over by visual signs. Seen as a continuum, the language problematic identified in the earlier work finds a solution in the latter, as played out by the different tensions between text and image. In each of these cases, translation serves as a litmus indicator of their underlying discourses. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/194806 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 0.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.231 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Lee, TK | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-17T02:11:18Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2014-02-17T02:11:18Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies, 2014, v. 1 n. 1, p. 43-62 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 2330-6343 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/194806 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines two works by contemporary Chinese artist Xu Bing: A Book from the Sky and A Book from the Ground. Focusing on the relationship between text and image in each of these works, it explores the relation between verbality and visuality in multimodal literary-art. It argues that the schema of image-in-text and image-as-text underline different discourses of communication as articulated in these works. A Book from the Sky expresses a negative view of the communicative potential of language by masking up the verbal signifier as an image and puncturing it of semantic meaning. A Book from the Ground, on the other hand, envisions a futuristic realm with a radically different linguistic order, where verbal texts are functionally taken over by visual signs. Seen as a continuum, the language problematic identified in the earlier work finds a solution in the latter, as played out by the different tensions between text and image. In each of these cases, translation serves as a litmus indicator of their underlying discourses. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Routledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rtis20#.U2c2RPmSx1Y | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies | en_US |
dc.title | Visuality and translation in contemporary Chinese literary art: Xu Bing’s A Book from the Sky and A Book from the Ground | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Lee, TK: leetk@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Lee, TK=rp01612 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_OA_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/23306343.2014.883776 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 227701 | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 43 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 62 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 2330-6343 | - |