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Translating Cain - Emotions of Invisibility through the Gaze of Raskolnikov and Bigger (Hardcover)
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Translating Cain - Emotions of Invisibility through the Gaze of Raskolnikov and Bigger (Hardcover)
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Unless we recognize the cultural context embedded in the Genesis
story of Cain and Abel, the significance of Cain's rejection and
consequent violence is often lost in translation. While many
interpreters highlight the theme of sibling rivalry to explain
Cain's murderous violence, Samantha Joo relates Cain's anger and
shame to the social marginalization of Kenites in ancient Israel,
for whom Cain functions narratively as an ancestor. To better
understand and experience Cain's emotions in the narrative, Joo
provides a method for re-contextualizing an ancient story in modern
contexts. Drawing from post-colonial theories of Latin America
translators, Joo focuses on analogies which simulate the "moveable
event" of a story. She shows that novels like Fyodor Dostoevsky's
Crime and Punishment and Richard Wright's Native Son, in which
protagonists kill to escape their invisibility, capture the "event"
of Cain and Abel. Consequently, readers can empathize with the
anger and shame resulting from the social marginalization of Cain
through the alienation of a poor, ex-university student,
Raskolnikov, and the oppression of a young black man, Bigger
Thomas.
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