关键词: 《格萨尔王》; 阿来; 葛浩文; 双重书写; 创译

Abstract: As a typical epic from Chinese minority traditions, King Gesar is a lengthy heroic epic which demonstrates a process of multi-channel folk creation encompassing text transcription and oral transmission, as well as that of multicultural co-molding at large. Alai, a famous Tibetan writer in Chinese, reshaped King Gesar into a novel in Chinese according to the project of Remodeling Myth launched a couple of years ago in China and across the world. Alai’s King Gesar (in Chinese) was later translated into English by Howard Goldblatt, a famous American translator of contemporary Chinese literature. Taking the double writing of the Tibetan epic as a case study, which is the rewriting from native-Tibetan into non-native Chinese by Alai and then translation into English by Howard Goldblatt, a process full of recreations and retranslations, the present article explores the multiple text interpretations and cultural transmissions of the original Tibetan epic in the course of double writing and retranslation from the perspectives of translation studies, as well as the great potentials for the interpretations and transmissions of ethnic epics against the background of discourses on Remodeling Myth and state Going Global strategy for Chinese Literature. Thereupon the theoretical value and practical significance of such strategies as double writing and creative translation will be highlighted as well, especially with relevance to Going Global strategy for Chinese literature.

Keywords: King Gesar; Alai; Howard Goldblatt; double writing; creative translation