ACCS2023 Pre-Recorded Virtual Presentations

Literary Studies / All genres/ Theory

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| “Struggling to Translate”: Jenn Marie Nunes’s Retranslation of Li Qingzhao’s “Ru Meng Ling” as Feminist Translation

Camellia Pham, Dartmouth College, United States

The interplay between gender studies and translation studies has expanded the gender dynamics in translation beyond the plane of textual materiality. The intersectional studies of gender and translation acquire a more symbolic role of representing the gender structure between the source text that occupies a masculine, privileged position and the translated one that inhabits a feminine “wild zone.” The feminist translation discourse reimagines the institutionalized power imbalance between the dominant, visible, masculine figure (the author) and the “muted,” invisible, feminine figure (the translator). In making translation an act of feminization, the translator works against the preconceived idea that translation is a derivative and secondary counterpart to its original, primary source text. This article analyzes Jenn Marie Nunes’s retranslation (2019) of “Ru Meng Ling” 如夢令 (Like a Dream) by Li Qingzhao 李清照 (1084-1155), based on the three feminist translation techniques devised by Luise von Flotow––prefacing and footnoting, supplementing, and hijacking. From the purview of contemporary feminist translation, Jenn Marie Nunes’s retranslation challenges the hierarchical binaries between author and translator, which all the more renders her creative work distinctively different from the preceding scholastic translations by Stephen Owen (1997) and Ronald Egan (2019). Nunes creates a generative system of “double feminization” for co-authorship and moves an extra step to mobilize the readers in her reimagination of the historical poem. The feminist translator brings her retranslation out of translational invisibility and puts it in explicit dialogues with the source text and implicit conversations with preceding translations of that same one.

68991 | A Comparative Study of Greek and Roman Mythologies with Special Reference to Excerpts from Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ and Riordan’s ‘Percy Jackson’

Sanjukta Chakraborty, Amity University, India

Dhritiman Chakraborty, University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Varun Gulati, Dr. Ambedkar International Centre & Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, India

Vineeta Prasad, Amity University, India

Ovid's Metamorphoses is a collection of poems chronicling the history of the creation of the world, consisting of fifteen fully constructed Books with over 100 poems. Over the years, Metamorphoses has inspired other great writers including Dante, Chaucer and Shakespeare himself. Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a mythological fiction series by Rick Riordan and through its modern writing depicts the story of the life of a young Demigod with an intricate inlay of Greek and Roman myths which, while entertaining to most readers, a scholar of Culture and Literature would find most refreshing. This work makes an analysis on the re-popularisation of the old concept of Gods, Goddesses, Deities and Demigods of different ethnicities while staying true to the concepts put forth by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. This can be shown by comparing the ideologies and the popular beliefs pertaining to particular characters - both mortal and immortal - from both the texts. In this way, it will be evident that through the passing of the years, the beliefs, traditions and cultures of the people have remained by and large similar to what they were in the olden days and to try to illuminate on some of the parts where they have changed.

70008 | Time and Elegiac in the Later Poetry of Andrew Young

Neil Conway, University of the Highlands and Islands, United Kingdom

The poetry of Andrew Young (1885–1971) has most usually been contextualized within the landscapes of his adopted home in the county of Sussex, and the Anglican church to which he turned in later life. While turning points seem to characterize Young’s career, his later work is indebted to a long-held commitment to the exploration of a metaphysics drawn from nature and expressed in formal but often surprisingly insightful and subtle poetry. This paper notes Young’s interest in the pastoral and in particular, the way that the forms and commitments of the elegiac take root in his later work. In particular, the companion poems of ‘Into Hades’ and ‘A Traveler in Time’, often considered to be somewhat anachronistic in terms of his poetic development toward a sparer approach, are viewed against the elegiac formulation developed here. This results in a view of Young as still the “superb minimalist” celebrated by his biographer and champion Leonard Clark, but which allows for some elucidation of the themes of time and loss, and the introduction of William James’ concepts of the ‘specious present’ and the ‘obvious past’. Young is then seen as a poet aware to some degree of the mystery of passing time, but who is unable to fully reconcile this with his other metaphysical sureties.

Media Studies

70668 | #BoycottBollywood Trend on Social Media: Understanding the Reasons and Impact

Neerja Vyas, Manipal University Jaipur, India

Rohit Dey, Manipal University Jaipur, India accs.iafor.org/accs2023-virtual-presentations

The Bollywood, one of the world’s largest film industries, is a significant contributor to the Indian economy and culture, producing hundreds of films annually that are widely viewed in India and also has a global fan base. In recent years, #BoycottBollywood has been a popular hashtag on social media in India and the movement has gained a significant momentum. Bollywood has faced many violent protests, boycotting of some celebrities and major films due to this trend. The chief concerns for this resistance include allegations of nepotism and favouritism within the industry, sexual harassment and misconduct, and the portrayal of women and minorities in films. The phenomenon throws light on the relationship that Bollywood has with its audience. Fans who go crazy for their favourite celebrity stars can turn equally brutal in trolling them and boycotting them on not just social media platforms but physically by vandalising theatres and burning their posters and effigies. This paper seeks to examine the phenomenon as a major criticism that the industry has faced from the audience in recent years. Tracing the origin and history of this movement, the focus of the paper would be to understand the reasons that have led to such a boycott, the impact that the industry is facing due to it and the possible outcomes. The paper would also attempt to study the audience reception and its significance in the context of Bollywood films.