1st Edition
Translation and Objects Rewriting Migrancy and Displacement through the Materiality of Art
Preface by Piotr Blumczynski
Acknowledgements
1.Translating beyond words
2.Travelling
3. Migrant objects
4. Translationality and translatio in contemporary art
5. Terra infirma
References
Index
Biography
Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte is Professor of Translation at the University of Salamanca, Spain. She has published articles and chapters, edited volumes and books, including Translation and Repetition (Routledge, 2024) and Translation and Contemporary Art (Routledge, 2022). She is a practicing translator specialized in the fi elds of philosophy, literature, and contemporary art.
Translation and Objects is an important and boundary-challenging contribution that responds to contemporary calls for reflection and engagement while pushing readers to consider how material objects can be understood translationally and as instantiations of displacement, transfer, and potential re-imagination [...] Taken as a whole, the volume is a convincing contribution to translation studies, braiding scholarship from a range of disciplines to reveal translation as a humanistic act and process that contributes to our understanding of the human condition, which invariably finds itself in a state of migration and displacement. The volume is certainly recommended not only for translation studies scholars, but for anyone working on questions of migration and displacement, as it pushes translation forward as a conceptual vehicle to understand these experiences.
-Christopher D. Mellinger, TTR XXXVI 2, 2024.
