1st Edition
Translation and Stylistic Variation Dialect and Heteroglossia in Northern Irish Poetic Translation
Acknowledgements; List of credits; List of acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Northern Ireland, translation and linguistic choice; 2. Visible dialect and the problem of interpretation; 3. Subversion: translation style performs linguistic hybridity; 4. Linguistic collision and renewal; 5. Conclusions: remaking texts via the local; Appendix 1 – The Road to Inver: original poems; Bibliography; Index
Biography
Helen Gibson is a translator and researcher from Northern Ireland. She finished her PhD on translation, dialect and Northern Irish poetry at the University of East Anglia in 2018, and published a chapter in Untranslatability: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Routledge, 2019). Her work concentrates on stylistic choices in translation, including the use of dialect and heteroglossia, and the intersection between translation and postcolonial studies.
'Helen Gibson’s fascinating study of dialect in translations by three Northern Irish poets is unique in demonstrating the creative and subversive power of style and language for a translator working against the background of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. An enlightening and important book.'
Jean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia, UK
'This richly-detailed book explores how three Northern Irish poets play with regional and standard language when translating. It expertly explains how the linguistic and the poetic, the social and the personal weave together when one reads translated poetry. In so doing, it gives invaluable insights into how ‘local’ translation can express the translator’s identity, enrich the wider language, and enable creativity.'
Francis Jones, Newcastle University, UK
