Transformations
The reason for this man's transformations were likely overwork and exploitation both by his job and his family.
Gregor
The American translator of "The Love Suicides at Amijima" who made the story into a play and romanticized the story from Jihei's point of view.
Donald Keene
Name the country and the story.
Ghana, "Two Sisters"
This American author did not achieve lasting fame in the U.S., but the Soviet animation based on her story is still popular today in Russia, Ukraine, and the rest of the post-Soviet region.
Name the American author and the story.
Lilian Moore, "Little Raccoon and the Thing in the Pool"
The biography of this Nigerian writer tells a story of transformation from someone assimilated to British culture to someone who is proud of his Nigerian Igbo heritage.
Chinua Achebe
Lawrence Venuti introduced two key terms into the translation debate. The terms describe whether the translator wants to move the foreign text closer to the target audience (term 1) or whether they want to move the target audience closer to the foreign text (term 2)
Term 1: domestication
Term 2: foreignization
This story shows the lasting effects of British colonialism on the education, culture, and religious beliefs of people in this African country.
Name the story and the country.
"Chike's School Days," Nigeria
This writer's style is characterized by everyday realism, understatement, and open endings, where the story ends without a clear conclusion.
Anton Chekhov
This tribe means "All right, you can go" and refers to a tribe in Botswana who separated from the main tribe because of their leader's romantic love for a woman.
Talaote
This Chicana author refused to translate herself for a monolingual audience and wrote her text in two languages, code-switching whenever she wanted.
Gloria Anzaldua
This writer received a Nobel prize in literature for his contribution to Latin American literature and his use of magical realism as an effective technique to make people think and question their reality.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
After facing a firing squad, this writer had his death penalty substituted by an exile to a Siberian labor camp. His stories are characterized by soul-searching, existential questions, and tortured protagonists who seek the meaning of life.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
This Chekhov's story ends with a sense of dramatic irony: the protagonist falls asleep feeling confident that he will be saved from his abusive situation, while we, the readers, feel that he is probably deceived.
"Vanka"
This protagonist in an old Japanese play faced the ghost of his old enemy and achieved reconciliation with him through Buddhist prayer and mutual forgiveness.
Rensho
This writer had a traumatic birth as the daughter of a biracial couple in the country, where marriage between races was prohibited. She grew up in an orphanage and never got to know her mother or her father.
Name the writer and the country, in which she was born.
Bessie Head, South Africa
This story echoes the writer's own biography as it focuses on the conflict over a child and whether the child is socially acceptable, given his parents.
Name the story and the writer.
Bessie Head, "The Deep River"
The moment when the protagonist in Dostoyevsky's story "The Dream of the Ridiculous Man" decides to commit suicide (although he does not end up doing it).
The moment when he sees a bright star in the sky as he is walking home on a dark November night
Name at least one translator of the Chekhov's stories we have read.
Constance Garnett and Ivy Litvinov
This writer was born in an empire, which collapsed shortly before his death. He spoke German, even though he was Jewish, and had to switch to Czech after the empire collapsed.
Name the writer and the empire.
Franz Kafka, Austro-Hungarian empire (lasted between 1867 and 1918).
This writing style is characterized by nightmarish and absurd elements that appear, at the same time, somewhat funny.
The author of this style is known for his dark vision of life, portrayal of human alienation, overwork, and the lack of empathy in modern life.
Name the author and the style.
Franz Kafka, kafkaesque