1st Edition
Multimodal Experiences Across Cultures, Spaces and Identities
Table of contents
Introduction
Part 1 – Illustrations as Intermodal Translation
Introduction
Chapter 1 The Illustrator as Translator and Biographer: Shaul Tchernichovsky’s Poems for Children in Light of Liora Grossman’s Illustrations
Chapter 2 A Multimodal Portrayal of a Journey in a Globalized World: Tehila Hakimi and Liron Cohen’s Graphic Novel In the Water
Chapter 3 A Journey into the Past in Words and Images: Rutu Modan’s Graphic Novel The Property
Part 2 – Adaptations as Intermodal Translation
Introduction
Chapter 4 An Indirect Translation of a Diary into a Graphic Novel: Anne Frank’s Diary: The Graphic Adaptation
Chapter 5
An Indirect Translation of a Diary into Instagram Stories: Éva’s Story
Chapter 6
Adaptation, Imitation and Meta-Poetic Commentary in the Works of Ilana Zeffren
Part 3 – Translated People
Introduction
Chapter 7 Expressions of Cultural Translation in an Art Exhibition: Zoya Cherkassky’s "Pravda"
Chapter 8 Cultural (Re-)Translation: Yohanan Simon’s Illustrated Letters
Chapter 9 "Inner Migration": Tehila Hakimi’s Tomorrow We’ll Work and Company
Chapter 10 Cultural Translation from the Point of View of the Receiving Culture: Savyon Liebrecht’s "Brigitta’s Man" and Dalia Ravikovitch’s She Came and Went
Concluding Remarks
Index
Biography
Ayelet Kohn is a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication at David Yellin Academic College in Jerusalem. Her research focuses on multimodality in media texts and on communities in the Internet. She has published in Visual Communication, Visual Studies, Computers in Human Behavior, Jewish Quarterly Review, Journal of Israeli History, Social Semiotics, Convergence and more. Her latest book, coauthored with Rachel Weissbrod, Translating the Visual: A Multimodal Perspective, was published in 2019.
Rachel Weissbrod is Professor Emerita at the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies, Bar- Ilan University. Her areas of research include translation theory, literary translation into Hebrew, audiovisual translation and adaptation. She has published in Target, The Translator, Meta, Babel, Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance and more. Her book Not by Word Alone: Fundamental Issues in Translation (in Hebrew) was published in 2007. Her latest book, Translating the Visual: A Multimodal Perspective, coauthored with Dr. Ayelet Kohn, was published in 2019.
