The Construction of Actor-Network in the Translation of Boy in The Twilight: Stories of the Hidden China

Jing Leng; Xinru Yang

doi:10.54097/7tmax810

Authors

Jing Leng
Xinru Yang

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/7tmax810

Keywords:

Actor-network, Allan H. Barr, Boy in The Twilight: Stories of the Hidden China.

Abstract

Renowned translator Allan H. Barr completed his translation of Yu Hua's Boy in The Twilight: Stories of the Hidden China in 2002, but it was not published until 2014. Among Yu Hua's novels, this is the first one Allan H. Barr translated. After years of capital accumulation, this short story was published successfully and received favorable reviews from well-known newspapers such as The Economist. This paper will mainly use Bruno Latour's actor-network theory (ANT) as the main theoretical model and explore the actor-network construction of the successful translation of the short story Boy in The Twilight: Stories of the Hidden China based on domestic and international literature, Amazon platform and online information.

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