A Study of Goldblatt's English Translation of Big Breasts and Wide Hips from the Perspective of Rewriting Theory

Abstract

One of the masterpieces of Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2012, Big Breasts and Wide Hips is a novel that combines magical realism with China's social history, which opens up a new frontier of literary creation and attracts extensive attention from many translators. Goldblatt is one of them. He is a famous American biologist, and his translation of Big Breasts and Wide Hips can be regarded as a classic work of translated literature. Based on Lefevere's rewriting theory, this paper studies the English version of Goldblatt's Big Breasts and Wide Hips from three aspects: ideology, poetics, and patronage, to provide some ideas for the translation of China's literary works.