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Narratives of Mistranslation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 93

Narratives of Mistranslation

This book offers unique insights into the role of the translator in today’s globalized world, exploring Latin American literature featuring translators and interpreters as protagonists in which prevailing understandings of the act of translation are challenged and upended. The volume looks to the fictional turn as a fruitful source of critical inquiry in translation studies, showcasing the potential for recent Latin American novels and short stories in Spanish to shed light on the complex dynamics and conditions under which translators perform their task. Kripper unpacks how the study of these works reveals translation not as an activity with communication as its end goal but rather as a m...

At Translation's Edge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 218

At Translation's Edge

Since the 1970s, the field of Translation Studies has entered into dialogue with an array of other disciplines, sustaining a close but contentious relationship with literary translation. At Translation’s Edge expands this interdisciplinary dialogue by taking up questions of translation across sub-fields and within disciplines, including film and media studies, comparative literature, history, and education among others. For the contributors to this volume, translation is understood in its most expansive, transdisciplinary sense: translation as exchange, migration, and mobility, including cross-cultural communication and media circulation. Whether exploring the Universal Declaration of Human Rights or silent film intertitles, this volume brings together the work of scholars aiming to address the edges of Translation Studies while engaging with major and minor languages, colonial and post-colonial studies, feminism and disability studies, and theories of globalization and empire.

Global Spencerism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 323

Global Spencerism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-10-27
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Today the name most closely associated with evolutionary theory is Charles Darwin. Given Darwin’s immense reputation it is easy to forget that Herbert Spencer, in his time, was just as famous as Darwin. It turns out that Spencer’s evolutionary thought was not what necessarily appealed to many of his readers, since they had their own sense of his identity and importance. By focusing on Spencer the evolutionist, scholars have tended to concentrate their attention on a rather narrow view of him that has come out of Anglo-American appropriations of his thought. Spencer was one of the first international, public intellectuals whose views on psychology, religion, sociology, ethics, education, ...

Transnational South America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 195

Transnational South America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-01-29
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  • Publisher: Routledge

At the crossroad of intellectual, diplomatic, and cultural history, this book examines flows of information, men, and ideas between South American cities—mainly the port-capitals of Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro—during the period of their modernization. The book reconstructs this largely overlooked trend toward connectedness both as an objective process and as an assemblage of visions and policies concentrating on diverse transnational practices such as translation, travel, public visits and conferences, the print press, cultural diplomacy, intertextuality, and institutional and personal contacts. Inspired by the entangled history approach and the spatial turn in the humanities, the bo...

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 626

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation

The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Literary Translation offers an understanding of translation in Latin America both at a regional and transnational scale. Broad in scope, it is devoted primarily to thinking comprehensively and systematically about the intersection of literary translation and Latin American literature, with a curated selection of original essays that critically engage with translation theories and practices outside of hegemonic Anglo centers. In this introductory volume, through survey and case-study chapters, contributing authors cover literary and cultural translation in the region historically, geographically, and linguistically. From the nineteenth to the twenty-fi...

Cannibal Translation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 420

Cannibal Translation

A bold comparative study illustrating the creative potential of translations that embrace mutuality and resist assimilation Cannibal translators digest, recombine, transform, and trouble their source materials. Isabel C. Gómez makes the case for this model of literary production by excavating a network of translation projects in Latin America that includes canonical writers of the twentieth century, such as Haroldo and Augusto de Campos, Rosario Castellanos, Clarice Lispector, José Emilio Pacheco, Octavio Paz, and Ángel Rama. Building on the avant-garde reclaiming of cannibalism as an Indigenous practice meant to honorably incorporate the other into the self, these authors took up Brazili...

A World Atlas of Translation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 503

A World Atlas of Translation

What do people think of translation in the different historical, cultural and linguistic traditions of the world? How many uses has translation been put to? How distant from one another are the concepts of translation found in the different traditions? These are some of the questions A World Atlas of Translation addresses. Its twenty-one reports give us pictures taken from the inside, both from traditions that are well represented in the literature and from the many that (for now) are not. But the Atlas is not content with documenting – no map is this innocent. In fact, the wealth of information collected and made accessible by its reporters can be useful to gauge the dispersion of translation concepts across traditions. As you read its reports, the Atlas will keep asking “How far apart do these concepts look to you?” Finally and more ambitiously, the reports can help us test the hypothesis that a cross-cultural notion of translation exists. In this respect, the Atlas is mostly a proof of concept. It hopes to encourage further fact-based research in quest of a robust and compelling unifying notion of translation.

Hacerse de Palabra: Traducción y Filosofía en México (1940-1970)
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 203

Hacerse de Palabra: Traducción y Filosofía en México (1940-1970)

Entre la traducción y la filosofía prevalece una larga y difícil relación. Por un lado, la traducción de filosofía, entendida como su multiplicación ad infinitum en diferentes lenguas, se opone a un corpus filosófico ideal, en el cual de Platón a Derrida, la tarea de escribir y pensar sería independiente de la materialidad lingüística. Por el otro, un corpus filosófico real, esto es, desperdigado en múltiples traducciones siempre parciales y provisionales, más que proyectar un corpus unificado, refracta la actividad intelectual de las comunidades en que se inscribe. Este libro busca arrojar luz sobre una región de ese corpus filosófico real, esto es, aquella que contribuyó ...

Latinoamérica traducida: aproximaciones recientes desde un campo en construcción
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 128

Latinoamérica traducida: aproximaciones recientes desde un campo en construcción

Los trabajos aquí reunidos buscan crear un puente entre, por un lado, investigaciones que arrojan luz sobre el acontecimiento traductor en contextos latinoamericanos y lenguas hasta ahora poco estudiados y, por el otro, preocupaciones vigentes en el ámbito más general de los estudios de traducción. Entre estas últimas están el establecimiento de circuitos específicos para la importación y exportación de literaturas; las iniciativas de revitalización lingüística emprendidas ya desde el Estado, ya desde las propias comunidades de hablantes de lenguas originarias; las políticas culturales y lingüísticas que buscan responder a los cambios demográficos relacionados con las migraci...