Cantonese Translations of Doraemon in Hong Kong: Domestication Between Vegetal, Animal, and Human Agencies.
Through the extensive use of anthropomorphism, phytomorphism, and zoomorphism, rhetorical devices grounded in an ethic of multi-species care, the Japanese manga Doraemon envisions a world where animals, plants and humans share equal agency and autonomy. Its Cantonese translation, serialized in a chi...
| Publicado en: | Children's Literature in Education Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 434 - 450 |
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