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The Translator’s Visibility: New Debates and Epistemologies book cover

1st Edition

The Translator’s Visibility New Debates and Epistemologies

Edited By Larisa Cercel, Alice Leal Copyright 2025
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge
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This collection illuminates the epistemological and philosophical underpinnings of Lawrence Venuti’s seminal The Translator’s Invisibility , extending these conversations through a contemporary lens of epistemic justice while also exploring its manifestations and transposing it to different disciplines and contexts. The volume is divided into five parts. The opening chapters provide... Read more

Contents

 

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

 

INTRODUCTION

1. Plural Voices and Epistemologies Around the Translator’s Visibility

Alice Leal

 

PART 1: Contemporary foundations

2. Visibility: Contingencies, Ruptures, Kinds

A. E. B. Coldiron

 

PART 2: Philosophical Underpinnings

3. The Translator’s Invisibility and the Correspondence Theory of Truth

Alodia Martin-Martinez

 

4. Philosophy’s Resistance to Translation

Brian O’Keeffe

 

5. On Visibility: A Wittgensteinian Stance

Paulo Oliveira

 

PART 3: Manifestations, Illustrations, Point of View

6. Modernism, Foreignization, and Form: “Translationmourning” in Anne Carson’s NOX

Sean Cotter

7. Literary Translators on Visibility: To What Extent and in Which Ways Is It a Concern?

Adriana Şerban

 

PART 4: Different Contexts, Areas and Disciplines

8. Making the Nation Visible in Two Ways: Lessons from Venuti for the EU

Lisa Foran

9. Relative Visibility: Buddhist Translators in Ancient China

Tianran Wang

10. The Screenwriter as Translator: Venuti’s (In)visibility in the Field of Screenwriting

Rina Gefen & Rachel Weissbrod

 

PART 5 : Future Direction

10. Machine visibility now

Marc Lebon

 

POSTFACE

Envisioning In-Visibility

D. M. Spitzer

 

Index

Biography

Larisa Cercel is a researcher at the Hermeneutics and Creativity Research Centre at the University of Leipzig (Germany). She is currently conducting a long-term research project at the University La Sapienza in Rome as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Alice Leal is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Wits University (South Africa).

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