Szu-Wen Kung (Dr.) is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Program in Translation and Interpretation, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe interdisciplinarity of Translation StudiesA brief overview: translation of Taiwan literatureStructure of the bookChapter One: Conceptualising the Translation of Taiwan Literature as a Social ActDefining sociological approachesBourdieu’s theory of social practiceLatour’s actor-network theory (ANT)Case studies: The interplay of the social influences of players in translationLaying the foundations: Individual efforts and influences during the early phaseCross-cultural networks in the production of translationsDiscussion and implicationsChapter Two. The Translation and Rewriting of Taiwan Literature: A Contextual PerspectiveThe cultural approach in translation studiesParatextIdeology, poetics, and translation as rewritingTranslation as rewriting as seen in anthologisation and paratextDiscussion and concluding remarksChapter Three. Translation into English as a Way of Enhancing Visibility: A Case Study of the English Translation of Wintry Night, a Taiwanese NovelEnglish as a lingua franca and its functionsEnglish as a lingua franca and its influence on translation flowsThe dominance of English and its traces in textual practicesThe case study: An English translation of Wintry NightDiscussion and concluding remarksChapter Four. Performative Linguistics in the Translation of Literary Cacophony Linguistic approaches to translation studies: A dualistic viewA comparison of performative linguistics and constative linguistics Case study: An act of language performance and re-performance in Rose, Rose, I Love You and its translationDiscussion and concluding remarksCONCLUSION