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Harry Aveling. Talk at the University of Melbourne. 10 October, 2017.
Pham Duy Khiem (1908-1974) was a graduate of the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and Ambassador of the Republic of (South) Vietnam to France in the mid-fifties. He wrote two collections of Vietnamese folktales in French, republished as Légendes des terres sereines (Paris 1951). These stories have been used by other writers, often without acknowledging Pham’s authorship. In the presentation, emphasis will be placed on translation and the exercise of power: (i) first with regard to control over texts -- what is chosen to be translated, who chooses it, how the target text is produced, how it is integrated into the target culture, and (ii) with regard to plagiarism, the ownership of the texts.
Professor Harry Aveling PhD DCA holds adjunct appointments in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, and Asian Studies, La Trobe University. He specializes in Southeast Asian Literature and Translation Studies. He has translated extensively from Indonesian and Malay and is the author, with Teri Yamada, of the entry on “Southeast Asian Translation Traditions” in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, 2009. His most recent translation is Why the Sea is Full of Salt and Other Vietnamese Folktales by Ming Tran Huy (2017).
Harry Aveling. Talk at the University of Melbourne. 10 October, 2017.
Pham Duy Khiem (1908-1974) was a graduate of the prestigious École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and Ambassador of the Republic of (South) Vietnam to France in the mid-fifties. He wrote two collections of Vietnamese folktales in French, republished as Légendes des terres sereines (Paris 1951). These stories have been used by other writers, often without acknowledging Pham’s authorship. In the presentation, emphasis will be placed on translation and the exercise of power: (i) first with regard to control over texts -- what is chosen to be translated, who chooses it, how the target text is produced, how it is integrated into the target culture, and (ii) with regard to plagiarism, the ownership of the texts.
Professor Harry Aveling PhD DCA holds adjunct appointments in the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, and Asian Studies, La Trobe University. He specializes in Southeast Asian Literature and Translation Studies. He has translated extensively from Indonesian and Malay and is the author, with Teri Yamada, of the entry on “Southeast Asian Translation Traditions” in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, 2009. His most recent translation is Why the Sea is Full of Salt and Other Vietnamese Folktales by Ming Tran Huy (2017).
