Journal | Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale
Journal issue | 56 | 2020
Research Article | Ah Q Travels to Europe
Abstract
This study focuses on the adaptations of the novella “The True Story of Ah Q” by the Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881-1936), produced by two important European playwrights, Christoph Hein (b. 1944) and Dario Fo (1926-2016), who ‘translated’ Lu Xun’s famous character respectively into a problematic nihilist (Die wahre Geschichte des Ah Q, 1983) and into a revolutionary Chinese Harlequin (La storia di Qu, 1989; 2011). These two plays appropriate the ‘hypotext’ into a new cultural geography, which is neither Chinese nor completely German or Italian, but rather a transcultural space based on the European intellectual tradition of the ‘anarchist’. In this case translation means a thorough transformation and change which allows Lu Xun’s work to ‘live on’ (Fortleben, as in Walter Benjamin’s theory).
Submitted: Feb. 6, 2020 | Accepted: April 17, 2020 | Published June 30, 2020 | Language: en
Keywords Appropriation • Adaptation • Transcultural rewriting • Fortleben • Contact zone
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ECF_article_2979 |
dc.title |
Ah Q Travels to Europe. Christoph Hein’s Die wahre Geschichte des Ah Q (1983) and Dario Fo’s La storia di Qu (2011) |
dc.contributor.author |
Pesaro Nicoletta |
dc.publisher |
Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari |
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Research Article |
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en |
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http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/riviste/annali-di-ca-foscari-serie-orientale/2020/56/ah-q-travels-to-europe/ |
dc.description.abstract |
This study focuses on the adaptations of the novella “The True Story of Ah Q” by the Chinese writer Lu Xun (1881-1936), produced by two important European playwrights, Christoph Hein (b. 1944) and Dario Fo (1926-2016), who ‘translated’ Lu Xun’s famous character respectively into a problematic nihilist (Die wahre Geschichte des Ah Q, 1983) and into a revolutionary Chinese Harlequin (La storia di Qu, 1989; 2011). These two plays appropriate the ‘hypotext’ into a new cultural geography, which is neither Chinese nor completely German or Italian, but rather a transcultural space based on the European intellectual tradition of the ‘anarchist’. In this case translation means a thorough transformation and change which allows Lu Xun’s work to ‘live on’ (Fortleben, as in Walter Benjamin’s theory). |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie orientale |
dc.relation.ispartof |
Vol. 56 | June 2020 |
dc.issued |
2020-06-30 |
dc.dateAccepted |
2020-04-17 |
dc.dateSubmitted |
2020-02-06 |
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dc.identifier.eissn |
2385-3042 |
dc.rights |
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
dc.identifier.doi |
10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2020/01/018 |
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yes |
dc.subject |
Adaptation |
dc.subject |
Adaptation |
dc.subject |
Appropriation |
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Appropriation |
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Contact zone |
dc.subject |
Contact zone |
dc.subject |
Fortleben |
dc.subject |
Fortleben |
dc.subject |
Transcultural rewriting |
dc.subject |
Transcultural rewriting |
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