Translating memories of violent pasts : memory studies and translation studies in dialogue
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Translating memories of violent pasts : memory studies and translation studies in dialogue
(Creative, social and transnational perspectives on translation)
Routledge, 2024
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection brings together work from Memory Studies and Translation Studies to explore the role of interlingual and intercultural translation for unpacking transcultural memory dynamics, focusing on memories of violent pasts across different literary genres.
The book explores the potential of a research agenda that links narrower definitions of translation with broader notions of transfer, transmission, and relocation across temporal and cultural borders, investigating the nuanced theoretical and conceptual dimensions at the intersection of memory and translation. The volume explores memories of violent pasts - legacies of war, genocide, dictatorship, and exile across different genres and media, including testimony, autobiography, novels, and graphic novels. The collection engages in central questions at the interface of Memory Studies and Translation Studies, including whether traumatic historical experiences that resist representation can be translated, what happens when texts that negotiate such memories are translated into other languages and cultures, and what role translation strategies, translators, and agents of translations play in memory across borders.
The volume will be of particular interest to students and scholars in Translation Studies, Memory Studies, and Comparative Literature.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Translating Memories of Violent Pasts
Claudia Junke and Desiree Schyns
Thoughts on Translation and Memory
Susan Bassnett
Mnemonic Translation and the Politics of Visibility
Lucy Bond
'As if carved in stone': Primo Levi and the (In)Stability of Memory in Translation
Mary Wardle
From 'Living on' to 'Still Alive' and 'Lost on the Way': Exile, Memory, and Intersectionality as a Translation 'of One's Own' in Ruth Kluger's Autobiographical Texts
Marie-Pierre Harder
Modiano's Dark Light of Remembrance in Translation: Paratextual Mediation of La place de l'etoile in German, Dutch, and English
Desiree Schyns
The Editorial Framing of Polish and Spanish Translations of Jorge Semprun's Novel Le mort qu'il faut and the Contexts of their Reception
Malgorzata Gaszynska-Magiera
Robert Schopflocher's Self-Translation in Argentinian Exile: Reflections on German-Jewish Cultural Memory and Collective Identity
Philippe Humble and Arvi Sepp
Translatio inferni: Roberto Bolano's Memory of the Nazis in America
Nora Zapf
Translating Genocide? The Case of the Witness Esther Mujawayo
Vera Elisabeth Gerling
Translating Wounds in the Contemporary Memoir - The Genocide in Rwanda and its Aftermath in Clemantine Wamariya's The Girl Who Smiled Beads (2018)
Katarzyna Macedulska
Translation, Trauma, and Memory in Petit pays (Gael Faye)
Anneleen Spiessens
Collaborative Translation and the Remediation of Intergenerational Memory in Leila Abdelrazaq's Baddawi
Tamara Barakat
The Graphic Memoir in a Translational Perspective: Childhood Memories of War in Zeina Abirached's Mourir partir revenir: Le jeu des hirondelles (2007) and Je me souviens Beyrouth (2008)
Claudia Junke
Bridging Communities Affected by Past Conflict: Translation and the Processes of Memory
Cecilia Rossi
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