1st Edition

Translation Studies and Ecology Mapping the Possibilities of a New Emerging Field

Edited By Maria Dasca, Rosa Cerarols Copyright 2024
226 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This innovative collection explores the points of contact between translation practice and ecological culture by focusing on the relationship between ecology and translation. The volume’s point of departure is the idea that translations, like all human activities, have a relational basis. Since they depend on places and communities to which they are addressed as well as on the cultural... Read more

List of Contributors

Preface

Part I: Language contact and postcolonialism

1. Gabriel Dols and Caterina Calafat, “‘Faut pas oublier que vous êtes sel’: Food and the political ecology of translation in/of Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy

2. Felicity Hand, “From head hunters to insurgents: Translating the cultures of India’s Northeast”

3. Edward Clay, “Language contact within an institutional ecosystem: The impact of EU translation”

Part II: Ecofeminism, migration and translation

4. Pilar Godayol, “Early ecofeminist debates of the seventies and eighties in Barcelona: Translations and reception”

5. Teresa Iribarren, “Displaced ecofeminisms: Between stigma, domestication and transformation potential. Considerations from translations into Catalan” 

6. Manuela Palacios, “Translation, migration and gender: Some ecocritical and ecofeminist considerations”

Part III: Standard languages and linguistic variation

7. Helena Badell and Joan Josep Mussarra Roca, “Hymn to Demeter translated: Views on earth, land, and life” 

8. Phrae Chittiphalangsri, “Antipodean translation: Reconfiguring the space and ecology of dialectal movement in Thai experimental literary translation” 

Part IV: Ecotranslation and animal studies

9. Chengcheng You, “Re-engendering the genre: anthropomorphism in the eco-translation of Chinese wild animal stories”

10. Laura Vilardell, “Eco-translatology in the English Translation of Platero y yo, by Juan Ramón Jiménez, published by The Dolphin Book (1956)”

Index

Biography

Maria Dasca is Tenure-track Professor in the Department of Humanities at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.

Rosa Cerarols is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain.