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Hidden Struggles: Presentations of Korea in Translated Korean Literature

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    Identifier: PC:3498
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/PC3498
    Authors:
    Ester Torres Simón
    Abstract:
    Interaction between images and cultural references can make illustrations, and especially book covers, become more than mere supplements to texts. In this study I analyze the topics, paratextual presentations and covers of Korean literature translated into English and published in the USA after the Korean War. I organize topics, discourses and images into four categories of analysis (Modernity, Tradition, Religion and Struggle) and I look into the relations between the four. I aim to discern, first, the main image presented of Korea in this corpus of publications. Second, I want to uncover to what extent these three categories, which may correspond to the three stages of the creation of a literary translation (selection – translation – marketing), have a common focus. Third, based on the results, I draw conclusions regarding the different visions of Korea and the agents involved in the translation of Korean literature. The results show contradictory presentations of the different agents involved with a common hidden discourse: Struggle.

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    Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion
    Link to the original source: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17447143.2015.1080713
    Department: Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
    e-ISSN: 1747-6615
    Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
    URV's Author/s: Ester Torres Simón
    Article's DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2015.1080713
    Abstract: Interaction between images and cultural references can make illustrations, and especially book covers, become more than mere supplements to texts. In this study I analyze the topics, paratextual presentations and covers of Korean literature translated into English and published in the USA after the Korean War. I organize topics, discourses and images into four categories of analysis (Modernity, Tradition, Religion and Struggle) and I look into the relations between the four. I aim to discern, first, the main image presented of Korea in this corpus of publications. Second, I want to uncover to what extent these three categories, which may correspond to the three stages of the creation of a literary translation (selection – translation – marketing), have a common focus. Third, based on the results, I draw conclusions regarding the different visions of Korea and the agents involved in the translation of Korean literature. The results show contradictory presentations of the different agents involved with a common hidden discourse: Struggle.
    Journal publication year: 2015
    licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
    ISSN: 1744-7143