This book has been specially planned to both commemorate and celebrate this milestone, and we have invited University of California, Irvine, professor Bert Scruggs to serve as guest editor to assist with its preparation and realization. The issue is divided into two parts: the first part is dedicated to a review of the publication history of the journal, its manner of selecting works to publish, as well as its contributions to the scholarly field. There are also research essays that consider the works chosen for translation themselves. The second part of the issue commemorates my retirement after more than forty years of teaching at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The main objectives of my work have been the English translation and introduction of Taiwan Literature. We have, therefore, included articles that consider my poetry, English translation, and scholarly research.
Kuo-ch'ing Tu,born in Taichung, Taiwan. His research interests include Chinese literature, Chinese poetics and literary theories, comparative literature East and West, and world literatures of Chinese (Shi-Hua wenxue). He is the author of numerous books of poetry in Chinese, as well as translator of English, Japanese, and French works into Chinese.
Terence Russell
Terence Russell is Senior Scholar in the Asian Studies Center at the University of Manitoba. He has an interest in contemporary literature in Chinese, especially the literature of Taiwan's Indigenous people. Dr. Russell has been a regular contributor to Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series, and was the guest editor of Issue 24 on Taiwan Indigenous myths and oral literature.
目錄
Foreword to the Special Retrospective on the Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series/Kuo-ch'ing Tu
「《台灣文學英譯叢刊》25週年回顧專輯」卷頭語/杜國清
Introduction: The Serendipitous and the Organic/Bert Scruggs
PART 1
From “Regionalism” to “Nativism”: An Introduction to the English Translation of Yeh Shih-t'ao's Taiwan Wenxue Shigang (An Outline History of Taiwan Literature) /Kuo-ch'ing Tu
Visualizing Bentuhua: The Recreation of Taiwanese Literature through Translation by Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series/Bert Scruggs and Taňa Dluhošova
“Worlding” Taiwan Literature, Rewriting Its History: Writing for the Twenty-fifth Anniversary of Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series. Richard /Rong-bin Chen
The Role of Colonial Literature in the Translation of Taiwanese Literature into English台灣文學英譯中殖民地文學的角色/Chia-li Kao
The Development of Taiwan Literary Studies in North America: Taking the Society for the Study of Taiwan Literature and Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series as Examples 北美臺灣文學研究的發展:以「台灣文學研究會」與《台灣文學英譯叢刊》為例/Li-hsuan Chang
Translating for Fun and Meaning/Howard Goldblatt
Sticky Rice Tamale/Sylvia Li-chun Lin
Hanami: Happy Moments with Professor Kuo-ch'ing Tu and Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series/Jenn-Shann Lin
Bringing Taiwan Literature to the World/John Balcom and Yingtsih Hwang
“The Three Musketeers” as the Second Generation of Modern Literature/Hengsyung Jeng
PART 2
Poems for Taiwan台灣詩情/Kuo-ch'ing Tu
Tu Kuo-ch'ing's Poetic Theory and the Seven Strands of His Poems 杜國清的詩論及詩作的七個脈絡/Hengsyung Jeng
Tu Kuo-ch'ing's Writings on Symbolism 以象示徵,與美同遊:杜國清象徵詩論研究/Tien Chu
Translated by Brian Skerratt The Construction and Transformation of Samadhi: Tu Kuoch'ing's System of Poetics and Aesthetic Practice 「三昧」的建構與轉化:杜國清詩學體系與美學實踐/Tu Shu-wei
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關於第一部分,古芃教授在導論中,提出他的觀點和論述,值得特別强調的是:《叢刊》創刊以來以台灣主體性為核心的編輯方向,經過二十多年的努力,這一導向隨著台灣社會歷史的發展,更加明顯,也獲得研究者的肯定,一如古芃教授和捷克科學院研究員路丹妮(Táňa Dluhošová)合撰的專文,以《叢刊》為研究對象的電腦分析所顯示的現象和觀察,頗有新意,以及陳榮彬教授的論文所提示的,《叢刊》呈現出「台灣文學的世界視野」(Worlding Taiwan Literature)和「台灣文學史的重新書寫」(Rewriting Its History)。呼應「台灣文學的世界視野」,高嘉勵教授的〈台灣文學英譯中殖民地文學的角色〉(The Role of Colonial Literature in the Translation of Taiwanese Literature into English)一文,提議英語國家中,日治時期台灣文學作爲與世界文學鏈結的可能性。此外,張俐璇教授的〈北美臺灣文學研究的發展〉,有助於對本叢刊在九〇年代中期應運而生的本土文學觀及其歷史脈絡的瞭解。