El contrato social: El manga o Rousseau en el espejo del canon

Castro, Nayelli 2015. El contrato social: El manga o Rousseau en el espejo del canon. New Readings 15 , pp. 57-75. 10.18573/newreadings.105

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Abstract

A number of specialised bibliographies of Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s works show that his Social Contract has been translated multiple times into both Japanese and Spanish. One of its most recent translations is a manga adaptation, published first in Japanese in 2011, and then translated into Spanish in 2013. This adaptation of the Social Contract is here considered part of a long history of translations, rewritings and appropriations. After briefly retracing the history in the Japanese and Spanish cultural contexts, the article considers this intersemiotic version of Rousseau’s classic work as a refraction of an ‘original’ and ‘canonical’ Rousseau. It is argued that this manga can be read as a complex narrative which synthesises, translates and rewrites Rousseau’s work both visually and textually, rather than as a merely educational text or an apparently unfaithful translation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Modern Languages
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NC Drawing Design Illustration P Language and Literature > PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania P Language and Literature > PQ Romance literatures
Language other than English:	Spanish
Publisher:	Cardiff University Press
ISSN:	1359-7485
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	02 May 2023 20:53
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/128913

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