Translationalizing <i>Le Petit Prince</i> to Hong Kong: Exploring a new approach to world literature
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The concept of ‘world literature,’ albeit elusive in its precise definition, was pioneeringly theorized by David Damrosch and is now typically understood as a mode of circulating and reading place-based literatures beyond their cultures of origin, whether in translation or the original language. This article seeks to extend that understanding by rethinking world literature as a mode of translationalization and experiencing. Using several reincarnations of Le Petit Prince (LPP) in Hong Kong as a case study, it first draws on Piotr Blumczynski’s reconceptualization of translation and translationality to introduce the notion of translationalization – encompassing diverse translational phenomena whose products connect to the source through material and sensory mediation. The article then analyzes representations of LPP, including a pop-up book, two sculpture exhibitions, and a multisensory event, arguing that these are designed to be experienced rather than merely read. The analysis reveals that these forms of translationalization transform the source text into (multi-)sensory engagements that reframe its meaning and appeal. They also involve acts of authentication, positioning these reincarnations as authorized agents that evoke psychosomatic responses in the audiences of the host culture.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".