Susan XU Yun

List of John Benjamins publications in which Susan XU Yun is involved.

Title

Translation of Autobiography: Narrating self, translating the other

Susan XU Yun

This book presents an interdisciplinary study that straddles four academic fields, namely, autobiography, stylistics, narratology and translation studies. It shows that foregrounding is manifested in the language of autobiography, alerting readers to an authorial tone with certain ideological… read more

[Benjamins Translation Library, 136] 2017. xv, 231 pp.

Article

XU Yun, Susan 2015 The translators’ positioning in an institutional setting: A Singapore perspective Babel 61:1, pp. 93–109 | Article

Translators in Singapore face the dilemma of serving the needs of a heterogeneous population in this multi-racial and multilingual city-state and have often become the “scapegoat” in the event of a controversy arising from the translation. A case in point is the heated debate triggered by a… read more