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1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Memory

Edited By Sharon Deane-Cox, Anneleen Spiessens Copyright 2022
444 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

444 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

444 Pages 41 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Memory serves as a timely and unique resource for the current boom in thinking around translation and memory. The Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of a contemporary, and as yet unconsolidated, research landscape with a four-section structure which encompasses both current debate and future trajectories. Twenty-four chapters written by... Read more

List of contributors

Introduction

Sharon Deane-Cox and Anneleen Spiessens

I. Translation and memory of trauma

  1. Translating Holocaust testimony: a translator’s perspective

    2. David Bellos

  2. Translating the perpetrator’s testimony: Kommandant in Auschwitz (Holocaust) and Une saison de machettes (Rwanda)

    3. Anneleen Spiessens

  3. Translating collective memory of Beslan: Russian state television news coverage of annual commemorations

    4. Sue-Ann Harding

  4. Conflicting memories of war interpreting

    5. Zhongli Yu

  5. Translation and colonial memory in East Africa

    6. Flavia Aiello

  6. At the intersection of the writing of translations and memory: bridging communities affected by past conflict

    7. Cecilia Rossi

    II. End-users

  7. Translated Holocaust poetry and the reader

    8. Jean Boase-Beier

  8. Travelling memory, transcreation and politics: the case of Refugee tales

    9.

    Siobhan Brownlie

  9. Mnemonic entrepreneurship and trans(articu)lation of the Philippine national anthem

    10. Jocelyn S. Martin

  10. Translation, memory, and the museum visitor

    11. Robert Neather

  11. Reframing collective memory in museums

    12. Min-Hsiu Liao

  12. Heritage interpretation(s): remembering, translating, and utilizing the past

    13. Sharon Deane-Cox and Pauline Côme

    III. Figuring memory and translation

  13. Re-trans-post: translation as memory in Québécois culture

    14. Carmen Ruschiensky

  14. Translating trauma in the literary text: violent pasts in Mathias Énard’s Zone and its English and German versions

    15. Claudia Jünke and Désirée Schyns

  15. Transcultural counter-memory and translation in contemporary Spanish fiction

    16. Lucía Pintado Gutiérrez and Alicia Castillo Villanueva

  16. Translating counter-memory in Australian Aboriginal texts

    17. Eleonora Federici

  17. Postmemory lost: historiographical meta-fiction Jinling Shishan Chai in translation

    18. Yan Ying

  18. Collective and corrective memories of a classic: mapping Oliver Twist’s memory in translation

    19. Julie Tarif

    IV. Future trajectories

  19. An archive of hope: translating memories of revolution

    20. Hoda Elsadda

  20. Translator memory and archives

    21. Michelle Woods

  21. The French diplomat and the Omaha shopkeeper: photographs of interpreters, 1873-1910

    22. John Milton

  22. Translation memory systems

    23. Ruslan Mitkov

  23. Computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools, translation memory and literary translation

    24. Roy Youdale and Andrew Rothwell

  24. Translation and Inuit memory

          Valerie Henitiuk and Marc-Antoine Mahieu

　

Index

Biography

Sharon Deane-Cox is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Strathclyde, UK, Assistant Editor of Translation Studies, and member of the Young Academy of Scotland. She has published a monograph on Retranslation (2014), while more recent projects include research on the translation of Holocaust memory, Scottish heritage translation, and interpreter history.

Anneleen Spiessens is an Assistant Professor at Ghent University and is affiliated with the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication. Her research focuses on ethical, political, and mnemonic aspects of translation. She is the author of Quand le bourreau prend la parole: génocide et littérature (2016).

"This valuable and timely collection of essays explores the multiple connections between translation and memory studies. The international contributors offer exciting new ways of looking at the inter-relatedness of translation and memory in a wide range of aspects of human experience. This is an important book."

Susan Bassnett, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, UK

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