1st Edition

Translating Others (Volume 1)

Edited By Theo Hermans Copyright 2006
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Both in the sheer breadth and in the detail of their coverage the essays in these two volumes challenge hegemonic thinking on the subject of translation. Engaging throughout with issues of representation in a postmodern and postcolonial world, Translating Others investigates the complex processes of projection, recognition, displacement and 'othering' effected not only by translation practices... Read more
Introduction, Theo Hermans; Part 1 Grounding Theory; Chapter 1 Reconceptualizing Translation Theory, Maria Tymoczko; Chapter 2 Meanings of Translation in Cultural Anthropology, Doris Bachmann-Medick, Kate Sturge; Chapter 3 Misquoted Others, Ovidi Carbonell Cortés; Part 2 Mapping Concepts; Chapter 4 Translation and the Language(s) of Historiography, Alexandra Lianeri; Chapter 5 From ‘Theory’ to ‘Discourse’, Martha P.Y. Cheung; Chapter 6 In Our Own Time, On Our Own Terms, Harish Trivedi; Chapter 7 Translation into Arabic in the ‘Classical Age’, Myriam Salama-Carr; Chapter 8 Gained in Translation, Audrey Prost; Chapter 9 ‘And the Translator Is –’, Eva Hung; Part 3 Reflexive Praxis; Chapter 10 The Translator as Theôros[Carol Maier; Chapter 11 Pseudotranslations, Authorship and Novelists in Eighteenth-Century Italy, Paolo Rambelli; Chapter 12 To Be or Not to Be a Gutter Flea, Christi Ann Merrill; Chapter 13 English-Chinese, Chinese-Chinese, Cosima Bruno; Chapter 14 Translation, Transcreation and Culture, G. Gopinathan; Chapter 15 Translation, Transcreation, Travesty, Sukanta Chaudhuri;

Biography

Theo Hermans

'... a vital contribution to the academic discourse on translation and on a series of related forms of representation.'

Michaela Wolf, Target