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Forum for Modern Language Studies 2007 43(2):107-120; doi:10.1093/fmls/cqm003
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© The Author (2007). Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. All rights reserved

Antique Lands, New Worlds? Comparative Literature, Intertextuality, Translation*

Theo D'haen

Department of English
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Blijde-Inkomststraat 21
B–3000 Leuven
Belgium


  Abstract

When it comes to labelling the re-writing relationship obtaining between postcolonial works of literature and their colonial predecessors, instead of speaking in terms of "influence", which would imply a hierarchically construed historical relationship valorising the work in the "mother" culture over its postcolonial counterpart, we would do better to speak of what I will call "bound intertextuality", something that is stricter than a mere referential use of intertextuality, yet looser than what we usually label a "translation". Such bound intertextuality may manifest itself on all levels of the work of literature, including the use of genre. In the analytical part of my article, I try to show how Amitav Ghosh's 1992 In an Antique Land "intertextually translates" Shelley's "Ozymandias" from a postcolonial perspective.

Key Words: comparative literature • translation • intertextuality • rewriting • postcolonial • postmodern • Ghosh, Amitav • Shelley


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