Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Memory serves as a timely and unique resource for the current boom in thinking around translation and memory. The Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of a contemporary, and as yet unconsolidated, research landscape with a four-section structure which encompasses both current debate and future trajectories.
Twenty-four chapters written by leading and emerging international scholars provide a cross-sectional snapshot of the diverse angles of approach and case studies that have thus far driven research into translation and memory. A valuable, far-reaching range of theoretical, empirical, reflective, comparative, and archival approaches are brought to bear on translational sites of memory and mnemonic sites of translation through the examination of topics such as traumatic, postcolonial, cultural, literary, and translator memory.
This Handbook is key reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in translation studies, memory studies, and related areas.
Contents
List of contributors
Introduction
I. Translation and memory of trauma
Translating Holocaust testimony: a translator's perspective
Translating the perpetrator's testimony: Kommandant in Auschwitz (Holocaust) and Une saison de machettes (Rwanda)
Translating collective memory of Beslan: Russian state television news coverage of annual commemorations
Conflicting memories of war interpreting
Translation and colonial memory in East Africa
At the intersection of the writing of translations and memory: bridging communities affected by past conflict
II. End-users
Translated Holocaust poetry and the reader
Travelling memory, transcreation and politics: the case of Refugee tales
Mnemonic entrepreneurship and trans(articu)lation of the Philippine national anthem
Translation, memory, and the museum visitor
Reframing collective memory in museums
Heritage interpretation(s): remembering, translating, and utilizing the past
III. Figuring memory and translation
Re-trans-post: translation as memory in Québécois culture
Translating trauma in the literary text: violent pasts in Mathias Énard's Zone and its English and German versions
Transcultural counter-memory and translation in contemporary Spanish fiction
Translating counter-memory in Australian Aboriginal texts
Postmemory lost: historiographical meta-fiction Jinling Shishan Chai in translation
Collective and corrective memories of a classic: mapping Oliver Twist's memory in translation
IV. Future trajectories
An archive of hope: translating memories of revolution
Translator memory and archives
The French diplomat and the Omaha shopkeeper: photographs of interpreters, 1873-1910
Translation memory systems
Computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools, translation memory and literary translation
Translation and Inuit memory
Index
