Ethnography, Born-Translated Literature, and Translation: The Case of Syaman Rapongan

• Main Author: Che, Richard Rong-bin
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: “born-translated” Indigenous literature; cross-cultural communication; cultural other; ethnographic translation; literary ethnography; Syaman Rapongan
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/kk/vol1/iss41/5; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/kk/article/2047/viewcontent/KK_2041_2C_202023_205_20Regular_20section_20__20Chen.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Located in East Asia, Taiwan is an island off the southeast part of Mainland China. After martial law was lifted in 1987, one of the ways by which the long-suppressed Taiwanese Indigenous communities can make themselves be seen has been writing in Chinese, but in a style that intentionally mixes Chi...