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Whether we're aware of it or not, we spend much of our time in this
globalised world in the act of translation. Language is a big part
of it, of course, as anyone who has fumbled with a phrasebook in a
foreign country will know, but behind language is something far
more challenging to translate: culture. As a traveller, a
mistranslation might land you a bowl of who-knows-what when you
think you asked for noodles, and mistranslations in international
politics can be a few steps from serious trouble. But translation
is also a way of entering new and exciting worlds, and forging
links that never before existed.
Linda Jaivin has been translating from Chinese for more than
thirty years. While her specialty is subtitles, she has also
translated song lyrics, poetry and fiction, and interpreted for ABC
film crews, Chinese artists and even the English singer Billy Bragg
as he gave his take on socialism to some Beijing rockers. In Found
in Translation she reveals the work of the translator and considers
whether different worldviews can be bridged. She pays special
attention to China and the English-speaking West, Australia in
particular, but also discusses French, Japanese and even the odd
phrase of Maori. This is a free-ranging essay, personal and
informed, about translation in its narrowest and broadest senses,
and the prism - occasionally prison - of culture.
"About six years ago, President George W. Bush was delivering a
speech at a G8 summit, when, made impatient by the process of
translation, he interrupted his German interpreter: 'Everybody
speaks English, right?' ..." Linda Jaivin, Found in Translation
Linda Jaivin is the author of novels, stories, plays and essays.
Her books include the China memoir The Monkey and the Dragon and
the novels Eat Me and A Most Immoral Woman. In 1992 she co-edited
the acclaimed anthology of translations New Ghosts, Old Dreams:
Chinese Rebel Voices. She has also subtitled many films, including
Chen Kaige's Farewell My Concubine, Zhang Yimou's Hero and Wong Kar
Wai's The Grandmaster.
What do the three funniest, sexiest aliens in the universe want
from Earthlings? Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, of course. Linda
Jaivin, who staked her claim as the queen of close encounters with
her bestseller Eat Me, introduces an even more eye-popping round of
pleasure-seeking escapades with the extraterrestrials
extraordinaire in Rock 'n' Roll Babes from Outer Space. Look out,
because here come Baby Baby, the nymphomaniac and wannabe rock
star; Doll Parts, the gutsy punk with an eye for Earth girls; and
Lati, the turbo chick with a dangerous habit of mooning asteroids.
Once they flee their dreary home planet to experience every
hedonistic pleasure Earth can offer, their explosive misadventures
become a cosmic tribute to Girl Power and a hilarious,
unforgettable ride.
In this eye-popping first novel--a bestseller in both the United States and Australia--Linda Jaivin invites readers to overhear what women really talk about when they talk about sex.
When four bright, successful friends meet in Sydney's designer cafés and restaurants to gossip about their romantic exploits, the talk sizzles. Julia, Chantal, Helen, and Phillipa are the best of friends. Professionally, their lives could not be more different, but whenever they get together, there are always plenty of intimate revelations to dish up and devour. Julia is a spunky photographer with a penchant for Peking duck and younger men; Chantal is a fashion magazine editor whose sexual preferences give new meaning to the words "mixing and matching"; Helen is a feminist scholar whose outward wholesomeness belies her inner naughtiness; and Phillipa is a somewhat secretive writer who appears to be taking rather close notes on her friends' raunchy tales. This outrageous, irresistible, and utterly original debut, which led Entertainment Weekly to call Jaivin "one of the 100 most creative people in entertainment," is the juiciest book you will read this year.
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Staging Asylum (Paperback)
Emma Cox; Version 1 0, Victoria Carless, Ben Eltham, Linda Jaivin, …
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The first of its kind, this timely anthology brings together six
contemporary Australian plays that offer a range of narratives and
perspectives on asylum seekers. A vexed issue within the Australian
community -- particularly among politicians, who often use asylum
seekers to further their own ends -- this collection contributes to
Australias ongoing discourse on unauthorised asylum seekers,
immigration detention, border control and the right to belong. This
eclectic collection includes CMI (A Certain Maritime Incident) by
version 1.0 , a smart, ironic verbatim work that deals with the
Children Overboard Affair and the SIEV X disaster; The Rainbow Dark
by Victoria Carless, a surreal domestic satire about immigration
detention; The Pacific Solution by Ben Eltham, which takes armchair
cricket commentary as a point of departure for a farce about the
Howard governments excision of migration territory;
Halal-el-Mashakel by Linda Jaivin, which looks at the friendship
between two detained asylum seekers; Journey of Asylum -- Waiting
devised by Catherine Simmonds, a series of vignettes based upon the
personal experiences of asylum seekers and refugees living in
Melbourne; and Nothing But Nothing by Towfiq Al-Qady, an
autobiographical play about childhood and war. With a main
Introduction as well as separate introductions to each play by
Editor and Drama Lecturer Dr Emma Cox, Staging Asylum recognises
the crucial role that theatre has played -- and continues to play
-- in one of Australias most hotly debated and urgent contemporary
issues.
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