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Conference Paper: Unconditional hospitality?: Travel, translation and telling tales
| Title | Unconditional hospitality?: Travel, translation and telling tales |
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| Authors | |
| Issue Date | 2018 |
| Citation | The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Lecture Series, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 13 February 2018 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | 'From Odysseus narrating his story to the Phaeacians to expediate his return to Ithaca, to Scheherazade in The Arabian Nights telling tales to receive a perverted and perilous form of hospitality, storytelling operates as a central element within the exchange between guest and host. But what happens when we knock on a door and we don’t share a language? What role does translation – its possibility and impossibility – play in the dynamic between hospitality and storytelling? Drawing on examples from literature (Homer’s The Odyssey, Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese – English Dictionary for Lovers) and travel (a 16,500km cycle journey from the UK to Thailand) Dr. Hulme explores the precarious but powerful relationship between hospitality, storytelling, silence and speech. |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/253395 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Hulme, HA | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-05-16T09:51:53Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2018-05-16T09:51:53Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Lecture Series, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 13 February 2018 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/253395 | - |
| dc.description.abstract | 'From Odysseus narrating his story to the Phaeacians to expediate his return to Ithaca, to Scheherazade in The Arabian Nights telling tales to receive a perverted and perilous form of hospitality, storytelling operates as a central element within the exchange between guest and host. But what happens when we knock on a door and we don’t share a language? What role does translation – its possibility and impossibility – play in the dynamic between hospitality and storytelling? Drawing on examples from literature (Homer’s The Odyssey, Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese – English Dictionary for Lovers) and travel (a 16,500km cycle journey from the UK to Thailand) Dr. Hulme explores the precarious but powerful relationship between hospitality, storytelling, silence and speech. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | The Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Lecture Series | - |
| dc.title | Unconditional hospitality?: Travel, translation and telling tales | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Hulme, HA: hhulme@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 284852 | - |