Rewriting Process Research Articles

Wong Kar-wai’s Argentine Affair: Happy Together as a Translingual and Multimodal Adaptation

Abstract In 2021, a 4K-restored rendition of Wong Kar-wai’s iconic film Happy Together (1997) returned to theatres across Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Argentina, marking the film’s enduring transnational appeal two decades after its Cannes premiere. This article investigates the film’s intricate cultural ties to Argentina. I argue that Happy Together not only enhances the cultural connections between Hong Kong and Argentina but also showcases Wong’s translingual and multimodal approaches to film adaptation. ‘Translingual’ refers to the film’s literary source: I demonstrate how Wong skilfully wove elements from Manuel Puig's 1973 novel The Buenos Aires Affair into his film through a threefold Spanish-English-Chinese process of rewriting. Subsequently, I contend that various cultural facets of Argentina—the literature of Puig, the soundscape of Piazzolla’s tango, and the landscapes of the Iguazú Falls and Tierra del Fuego—contributed significantly to the Hong Kong auteur’s multimodal adaptation. In short, this article proposes a dialogic perspective on Hong Kong cinema by considering Argentina as a reflective mirror brimming with aesthetic and geopolitical implications. Through the lens of Happy Together, this study moves beyond Western-centric reception paradigms by spotlighting the cultural and socio-political affinities between Latin America and Asia, thus bringing to the forefront the often-overlooked transpacific connections within the Global South.

Autoría y reescritura del poema épico Telémaco en la isla de Calipso de Pedro José Bermúdez de la Torre y Solier

This article analyzes the authorship and rewriting of the epic poem Telémaco en la isla de Calipso by Pedro José Bermúdez de la Torre y Solier. Its main objective is to explain the conception and design of this poem while considering its debt to other heroic sagas of the same period. It focuses mainly on the coincidences with the zarzuela También se vengan los dioses by Peruvian writer Lorenzo de las Llamosas and the epic poem Demofonte y Filis, allegedly written by the Franciscan friar António das Chagas. Subsequent objectives propose a comparison between Bermudez’s poem and the novel Les aventures de Telémaque by François Fénelon as a pivotal source. Furthermore, it is possible to contrast a series of diverse dramatic works produced and represented in eighteenth-century Spain, such as those written by José de Cañizares, Eusebio Vela, Domingo Rossi, and other anonymous playwrights. The conclusions rely on the problematic rewriting process and the legacy that the literary hero Telemachus carried both in epic poems and dramas of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.

Translation: Practicing Rewriting in Context

Translation serves to provide a natural context in which a translator practices the role of a second writer. This natural writing environment accumulates the experience as well as the expertise of applying various translation and linguistic theories to tackle textual problems, being them lexical, semantic, cultural or merely grammatical. Translation is the only field in which two languages are consciously and unconsciously practiced at the whole levels throughout the translation activity. Written texts that require translation ought to be understood by translators as the starting point for the rewriting (translation) process. Translation, then, can be handled as a writing practice that makes use of the appropriate translation techniques and procedures, observing contextual differences. Translators write in almost every field, from simple to highly specialized texts. In translation, translators rewrite the Source Language Text in a Target Language that projects their competence in that TL, provided that they must thoroughly understand the respective ST; maintaining some sort of relevance or similarity between their reproduced TT, and its corresponding ST. This paper emphasizes the usefulness of translation practice in enhancing writing competence in various writing settings.

Il taccuino dell’antropologia. La stesura delle note di campo durante un’etnografia dell’ospedale

Within anthropology, data collection is not a standardized process. Therefore, documentation praxis on the field is deeply subjective. The very conceptual definition of “fieldnotes” is highly variable among researchers and their construction, content, the extent of the subsequent re-writing process, objectives do not meet univocal or universal criteria. However, taking notes is essential for the gaining of ethnographic knowledge. In this article, I focus on some potentially problematic methodological aspects of the writing of fieldnotes. Social actors might find the note-taking disturbing and suspicious and they might react to it with hostility or apprehension. Under certain circumstances or in certain settings it may be inappropriate to take notes. It is necessary to continuously adapt the need to jot with both the contingent situations and the behavior of the bystanders. Here, as an example I describe the background and its adaptations to the context of the methodology for writing fieldnotes that I applied during research I conducted in a hospital ward. I also illustrate my re-writing of fieldnotes procedures during and after the fieldwork.

Reframing Second-Wave Feminism Through Fashion Industry and Augmented Reality Recent Trends in Judy Chicago’s Work

This article discusses the artistic approach of feminist artist Judy Chicago and her recent practice of re-enactment as a form of reframing. Reframing was a key methodological feature of American feminist art in the 1970s, aimed at repositioning women’s bodies and agency beyond patriarchal constraints. Chicago revolutionised minimalist aesthetics, domestic spaces and monumentality through a new understanding of women’s experience. Her most recent work includes partnerships with the fashion industry to create The Fertile Goddess setting for Maria Grazia Chiuri’s Dior and her first augmented reality installation, Rainbow AR, which continues the feminist rewriting process by exploring its possibilities and limitations in critical engagement with liberal feminism and progressive neoliberalism.

Ezra Pound and Spatial Poetics

Ezra Pound was preoccupied with both time and space. But he developed a spatial poetics in order to transform experiences of time into intense moments of relationality and supra-historical awareness. His earlier discovery of a “method of Luminous Detail” was further confirmed by Ernest Fenollosa’s theory of the ideogram. What interested Pound was the superposition of historical and cultural meanings in the present, or, more precisely, in the textual present of the Cantos. It is not that Pound wanted to suppress time; superposition is for him simply the mode of being in the present, which is compounded into the same process of transmission, mediation, translation, and rewriting. Pound’s ideograms slow down the monolinear movement of narrative to allow more complex patterns of awareness and modes of interaction to emerge among the images, facts, and details of a given Cantos sequence.

Ladino Istoriah de Iesus natsareno (EH 47 D 10) as the Vorlage for the Huldricus version of the Toledot Yeshu

This article deals with one of the Ladino versions of the Toledot Yeshu preserved in the Ets Haim library in Amsterdam. It is an exceptional manuscript in cursive Mughrabi script, copied around the middle of the seventeenth century but showing significant traces of having originally been composed around the middle of the sixteenth century. The importance of this document goes far beyond its role as the probable Vorlage used by Johannes Jacob Ulrich for his Hebrew-Latin edition Historia Jeschuae Nazareni (1705). Providing an apparently vivid reflection of the cultural context in the Iberian societies to which the Judaisers and converts belonged, the text of the Istoriah de Iesus natsareno (איסטרייה די ישו״ז נאצארינו) is an excellent example of an original process of rewriting. At the same time, the work carried out in composing this version and its successive reception in Hebrew, Latin and Judeo-German translations can help to clarify the complex relationships between redaction, translation and rewriting in the narrative traditions of Jewish versions of the life of Jesus of Nazareth.

Practices of Care and Sites of Resistance in Contemporary Multimedia Multisensory Art

In the latest edition of Feminist Media Histories, the editors observe how the recent conceptual troubling of care has enabled possibilities for work in feminist media histories to reconsider both our contemporary moment of mediated care and earlier enactments of care by communities through media (Banner & Zeavin 2023). In imagining safe, inclusive, and interdependent spaces, artists working at the fulcrum of various media and social worlds have much to contribute, since maintaining a practice in neoliberal contexts means forging alternative ethics while nurturing sensitivities, relationalities, and resourcefulness (Millner & Coombs 2021). Using a multi-media multi-sensory artwork at the 59th Venice Biennale as a case study, this paper examines the relationship between sound, listening, and social practice art as affective modes of care praxis, where their intersection is a critical method for creating new formations of resistance, possibility, and community. Emerging from Sonia Boyce’s Devotional Collection (1999-ongoing) – a living archive that evidences the cultural contribution of Black British female musicians to international culture – Feeling Her Way (2022) brings together a series of shifting and evolving audio and video channels featuring five Black female musicians as they improvise, collaborate, and play with their voices. Boyce is the first Black female artist to represent the United Kingdom in Venice and was awarded the top prize at last year’s event. Grounded in notions of social interaction, freedom of expression, and improvisation, this immersive artwork amplifies the collective dynamism of the musicians brought together by Boyce yet does not rely on unity or synchronicity. Instead, the spirited and diverse interpretations of various prompts along with the range of performer’s capabilities create dense, layered, and intricate fields of sound, forming a deliberately multisensory sonic-social collage rooted in the physical, material space of the recording site, Abbey Road Studios, remediated within the U.K. pavilion. On multiple screens, viewers watch these singers vocalize shrills, screams, murmurs, and humming, together with melodies and chants throughout several open rooms accompanied by gold embellishments and vibrant patchwork wallpaper. Through artistic practice, Boyce embodies an ethics of care based on responsibility, collaboration, attentiveness, and attunement to the musicians she works with, in the practice of collecting, archiving, and displaying precarious materials, and in what she invites the audience to participate in through listening, walking, and moving through the space. This paper argues that by centring the embodied voices and embeddedness of Black female musicians and allowing the audience to bear witness through the visualization of their interaction, Boyce participates in the complex process of rewriting, rereading, and re-sounding history. Boyce’s approach to the issues of neglected and disregarded histories through sound, socially engaged arts, and relationality demonstrates how these modes contribute to practices and discourses of care, resistance, embodiment, and community. Examining mediations of care for and by minoritized and racialized subjects helps reshape historical knowledge of media and our understanding of mediation as a strategy of resistance and care that crucially overlap within the collective networks that they seek to foster.

Telling Theatre Play Otherwise: Na'im al-Shayatin Versus Tartuffe

The addition/removal combination, related to translation, observed in the process of recreation constitutes the means of attenuation of the cultural, environmental and temporal differences between the audiences of the two plays. I propose to examine the process of adaptation and/or rewriting of the play (Na'im al-Shayatin), inspired by Tartuffe through the function of the translator as author. Given the highly evocative dimension of language, through the emanation of waves of expression of innuendo, new equations are observable for obtaining the meanings suggested in the target language and culture. Undoubtedly, an original way to reapprehend the latter. I raise questions about how the director works for re-creation in a different artistic environment using translation as a process. Due to the disparity in the audiences' environments and cultures of the two plays, the director resorted to adaptation and rewriting by combining addition and deletion. He negociated as a mediator to adapt the original work to the new audience and communicate the main ideas of the original play, which are hypocrisy and deceit through religious falsity, woman and marriage issues and family conflicts. To do so, he made changes to the playwriting in order to free the theatrical performance from its original terms. Indeed, Tartuffe is historically known as "The Impostor" or "The Hypocrite". The audience is aware of the latter’s blatant dishonesty. It is also ware that he is a clever and skilled hypocrite rather than a naive or illiterate fake. These ideas were reproduced as main themes in the Algerian play Na'im al-Shayatin. I analysed them in this paper using the Freytag pyramid through exposition, rising action, climax and denouement. Rewriting incorporates different levels and varieties of creativity in translation when removing boundaries between the source and target works. This process compeles the marriage of two extremely different environements into one mold. Eventhough worldwide communities represent many points of cultural disparity, they sometimes gather around some common socio-cultural traits and it is upon this very point that the researcher would shed focus in the current paper. In such contexts, the author can play a double-layered function that fluactautes between creating and translating. The latter is not an automatic literal process especially in literary domains where psychological factors like feelings and emotions are highly demanded. The factor of the human being in such contexts is not inveitable; literary translation is mainly a human endeavour. Consequently, the re-appearance of the same character in transcultural literature should not be considered a peculiar incidence. Instead of looking at literary works as unique and matcheless, one should reconsider this state of affairs to have the most of the teansuclutral literary experience. In Na'im al-Shayatin, the director, who was stuck between two extremes, was given the function of a secondary concept "recycler", propelling him toward a forthcoming narrative that is nothing less than the creative incarnation of his translation. On the one hand, he faces the challenge of staying authentic to the original play's vivacity, wit, and attractiveness. On the other hand, he is confronted by the difficult task of expressing the content autonomously in a hidden challenge of separating the act of translating from the creative process. Through this, Belkholdja re- tartuffed the original play by giving it a fresh perspective.

Accelerating at the Edge: A Storage-Elastic Blockchain for Latency-Sensitive Vehicular Edge Computing

The application of blockchain to Vehicular Edge Computing (VEC) has attracted significant interests. As the Internet of Things plays an essential and fundamental role for data collecting, data analyzing, and data management in VEC, it is vital to guarantee the security of the data. However, the resource-constraint nature of edge node makes it challenging to meet the needs to maintain long life-cycle IoT data since vast volumes of IoT data quickly increase. In this paper, we propose Acce-chain, a storage-elastic blockchain based on different storage capacities at the edge. Acce-chain supports re-write operation to re-write the historical block with a newly generated block without breaking the hash links between the blocks. As a result, Acce-chain ensures that the hot data can be efficiently accessed at the edge without incurring much communication costs or increasing the total size of the chain. To guarantee the security of the re-write process, we propose a new cryptographic primitive named Dynamic Threshold Trapdoor Chameleon Hash (DTTCH). To guarantee the verifiability of query operation, we design a novel storage structure named <italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">HybridStore</i> to ensure the verifiable query for on-chain/off-chain IoT data. As a result, Acce-chain achieves both authorized re-write and verifiable query simultaneously. We provide security analysis for the DTTCH scheme and the IoT data query algorithms. We evaluate Acce-chain through experiments and the results show that the performance of the re-write operation is feasible in real-world VEC settings, and the query efficiency can achieve up to several magnitudes better than which of the baseline. The results also demonstrate that Acce-chain can provide high service quality for the latency-sensitive VEC systems.

Ali Şîr Nevâyî’nin Sedd-i İskenderî’sinden Hareketle Klasik Metinlerin Yeniden Yazılmasının Gerekliliği Üzerine Düşünceler

This study basically seeks answers for questions such as “How can the classical figures and works of Turkish history be introduced to today’s people? Who, which work(s) and which elements, motifs or narratives in the work(s) can be used for this? What methods can be used in this process?” Although we think that all historical texts should be rewritten in the long run, we believe that classical figures and works that have the potential to carry culture should be prioritized. In this process, after the source texts are determined, the main point is that these texts are transformed into a form that today’s people can enjoy. We think that the possibilities of “re-writing”, which is one of the modern text criticism methods, can be used for such a transformation. In this study, Alî Şîr Nevâyî and his work named Sedd-i İskenderî were chosen as an example of the person/work that we think should be re-written because of their characteristics. At the beginning of the study, brief information about the re-writing method will be given and why the classical texts should be re-written will be discussed. Afterwards, it will be evaluated why we suggested Alî Şîr Nevâyî and his Sedd-i İskenderî for re-writing. Then it will be questioned what kind of organization can be used to carry out a re-writing process that we mean. Finally, examples of elements that we think should be highlighted in a “possible” re-writing of the Sedd-i İskenderî will be given.

Henry Bauchau et Antigone. Pour une esthétique contemporaine

Henry Bauchau’s interest and fascination for the Theban myth resulted in the publication of two novels: Œdipe sur la route in 1990 and Antigone in 1997. The latter constitutes a very important stage in his career because it is thanks to it that Bauchau is recognized as an internationally renowned writer. In order to deepen the study of the genesis of the novel, in this work we have taken into consideration some significant passages of the essay La lumière Antigone, published within the collection L’écriture à l’écoute, to try to better understand its very complex evolution, characterized by a constant process of reformulation and rewriting. It is also possible to observe that the character of Antigone assumes such a deep meaning that it goes beyond the boundaries of the novel and the myth, to become part of the author’s private life. Precisely for this reason, the evolution of the character of Antigone that Bauchau associates with the image of light and that becomes a symbol of his rebirth through writing has become the object of our study.

Re-Thinking of History in Glasnost-Period Georgian Official Press

This article represents the independent part of the broad academic project conducted by the author at Tbilisi State University. The article, on the basis of triangulation content analysis of four official publications of the Glasnost-period Soviet Georgia during 1986-1990, studies the trends of the process of re-writing of the past declared by the last Soviet Authorities. The main focus of the article is an inter-replacement of official and unofficial versions of histories in Georgia, or expressing more imaginably—yesterday as today or restoration of historical truth and justice as ideological change. The author concerns discursive and non-discursive realities in Glasnost-Period official press in Soviet Georgia. The term “official publications” implies newspapers that were official bodies of the Soviet and communist-party authorities of Georgia. The range of these publications in the article includes Georgian-language and Russian-language dailies, as well as the official youth press in both languages. The hypotheses of the study are posed to: 1) the time dimension of the re-assessment of history; and 2) the ideological platform of the re-interpretation of history. The article studies a really unique historical period when the official Soviet power and the informal power of the National Liberation Movement, official communist publications and the party press of newly established parties with different political ideologies coexisted in the conditions of one sociopolitical formation. The main findings of the article can be formulated as follows: 1) the official press of Georgia, despite the freedom of speech allowed from above and the vaguely restricted boundaries of this freedom, did not use the strategies of time-shifting discourse in reproducing history in constructing the Glasnost narrative, and 2) the official press of Georgia still covered historical events from the Marxist-Leninist platform.

"Córki powietrza. Sen Balladyny": Calderón spotyka Słowackiego w polu literackim, czyli hiszpańsko-polska comedia colaborada XXI wieku

Literary relations between Poland and Spain are not only the subject of some purely theoretical considerations of this essay, but also a space for creative practice within the literary field, in the sense proposed by Pierre Bourdieu, as a complex network of positions, relations, and rivalries between its participants, individuals, and institutions. The main subject of the article is the process of creating a Polish-Spanish dramatic collage called 'Daughters of the Air. Balladyna’s Dream' (2019) based on Calderon’s and Słowacki’s dramas, grounded in the historical context, from the Polish-Spanish dramaturgical assumptions to the bilingual libretto of the play, which premiered first in Opole and then in Almagro. Such a process of creative rewriting of our classic literature can be compared to the forgotten comedias colaboradas, which were extremely popular in Spain during the Golden Age: those multi-author dramatic adaptations often resulted from a fruitful collaboration between two, three, or even more writers and dramaturges, which nowadays seems somehow more challenging.

Gender and Sexual Identity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness: A Cixousian Analysis of Hijra’s Resistance and Remaking of the Self

Hijra is a distinctive South Asia known for their gender and sexual difference and associated with their transgender and intersex identities. Otherwise known as transwomen, they are traditionally subjected to prejudices and embedded within narratives of exclusion, discrimination, and the subculture. As a result, Hijras are typically perceived as isolated, abject, and passive victims who remain social and economic peripheries. Concerning the stereotypical image of hijras, this study explores Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happinessecriture féminine, this study examines characters’ contestations and alterations of existing definitions of sex and gender. This framework allows for a manifestation of gender flexibility and feminine writing as a tool for self-emancipation. Both protagonists Anjum and Tilo, illustrate that hijras are not predetermined but are formulated in a complex process of a conscious rewriting of the self. While the former character resists heteropatriarchal normativity through her conscious alterations of the phallogocentric structure of her Urdu language, the latter defies societal conventions of family and marriage with unorthodox views and actions that are materialized in the writing of her story.

Complete Prevention of Contact Electrification by Molecular Engineering

Summary Electrostatic charges are easily generated on surfaces during contact electrification. Although these invisible charges have emerged as a new dimension in mediating the functions of surfaces, such as energy conversion, liquid transport, reactivity, and adsorbability, the accumulation of charges on surfaces can also pose many undesirable consequences. Despite notable progress, existing approaches in engineering antistatic surfaces suffer from limitations such as the need to modify bulk materials or for delicate control of patterning on surfaces that rely on the neutralization of generated charges. Herein, we report a general toolbox for designing antistatic coatings by leveraging on chemically heterogeneous components with electron-donating and electron-accepting functions, i.e., N-(2-aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane and 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorooctyl trimethoxysilane, to molecularly engineer the surface potential to achieve an electrostatic homogeneity and completely prevent charge generation. Our approach is general, which allows the facile fabrication of antistatic coatings on various materials, even flexible and curved, with good re-writability and transparency.

The Process of Rewriting in Karl Ove Knausgård’s A Time for Everything. A Fractal Approach

The Process of Rewriting in Karl Ove Knausgård’s A Time for Everything. A Fractal Approach

The game of re-writing: From Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter to Parks’ In The Blood

African-American female playwrights have a durable inclination for social and political change. Their plays frequently reflect and deflect the socio-political events of the society. This study examines how Suzan-Lori Parks in In the Blood, shapes the presentation of a text to a wider sociological context in order to attain greater understanding and recognition of her message. This has been achieved by contextualizing Parks’ In the Blood with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter so as to assess the interpretation of history and society through the process of re-writing. The paper illustrates that ideas and events can be assembled from different studies, situations, and locations to bring out the meaning. At the core of the analysis, is the theoretical backdrop of intertextuality. This theory is important because when interpreting a text in connection to other texts and pre-texts, interpretation becomes interesting and flexible. Rewriting focusses on how a text is transformed through devices like imitation, repetition, allusion, satire and parody. Texts have no incorporated or unified meaning of their own; they are carefully related to the ongoing cultural and social developments. This theoretical position informs the conceptual praxis that this study maintains. The study indicates that Suzan-Lori Parks’ drama addresses issues that bear meaning to the historical, cultural and socio-political environment within which it grows. In its conclusion, the study demonstrates that not only black, but also white women are being criticized by the same people who place them in their shameful situations.

An Efficient Policy User Web Page Correspondence Searching for Support Query Rewriting

Nowadays, Social media positions remain a favorite combination as clients studying to distribute their occurrences, activities on the network. These websites receive large quantities of user-supplied elements during the vast difference natural world results of various varieties, reach. An effective advertisement marketing approach is designed by using the products that contain the information, additionally client inclinations and conclusions on information about products. By this kind of similarity between concepts of profile, a precise matching method is developed to match the profile of the Web services and user. In this work, the approach is developed to search the concept similarity in the second phase of the process of query rewriting is performed after extraction queries. Similarity measure techniques are very much useful in processing database queries such as top-k queries, reverse top-k queries, k-nearest neighbor queries and other different types of queries related to trading sales activities.

From Hack to Elaborate Technique—A Survey on Binary Rewriting

Binary rewriting is changing the semantics of a program without having the source code at hand. It is used for diverse purposes, such as emulation (e.g., QEMU), optimization (e.g., DynInst), observation (e.g., Valgrind), and hardening (e.g., Control flow integrity enforcement). This survey gives detailed insight into the development and state-of-the-art in binary rewriting by reviewing 67 publications from 1966 to 2018. Starting from these publications, we provide an in-depth investigation of the challenges and respective solutions to accomplish binary rewriting. Based on our findings, we establish a thorough categorization of binary rewriting approaches with respect to their use-case, applied analysis technique, code-transformation method, and code generation techniques. We contribute a comprehensive mapping between binary rewriting tools, applied techniques, and their domain of application. Our findings emphasize that although much work has been done over the past decades, most of the effort was put into improvements aiming at rewriting general purpose applications but ignoring other challenges like altering throughput-oriented programs or software with real-time requirements, which are often used in the emerging field of the Internet of Things. To the best of our knowledge, our survey is the first comprehensive overview on the complete binary rewriting process.