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Contesting Translation, a celebratory edited volume, honours Professor Mona Baker, one of the most influential scholars in translation, interpreting and intercultural studies. The eleven original chapters were especially commissioned from scholars who have developed enduring personal, professional and intellectual connections with Baker through her teaching and research.
The chapters are framed by a reflective introduction, and clustered into three inter-related sections: 'Trajectories and concepts', 'Narratives and corpora', and 'Activism and solidarity', which together map the routes and approaches that characterise Baker's oeuvre. Individual chapters offer studies on topics ranging from literary translation, knowledge translation, journalistic translation and museum translation to political and aspirational translation. Studies are situated in diverse temporal and geographical environments, extending from the seventeenth-century Low Countries to present-day Palestine. Chapters resonate with each other through critical scholarly engagement with the history, discourse, and politics of translation, and through a shared interest in the significance of the stories we tell each other and ourselves.
Relevant for students new to translation and interpreting studies as well as established and emerging scholars more familiar with the field's contours, Contesting Translation is a landmark contribution to a dynamic discipline that has itself been significantly shaped by one of its most forthright and creative scholars.
Contents
List of Figures
List of contributors
1. Framing Baker: A partial portrait
Neil Sadler, Sue-Ann Harding, and Jan Buts
Part I: Trajectories and concepts
2. From style, through ethics, to the political: a journey with Mona Baker
Gabriela Saldanha
3. Mona Baker's intellectual contributions to a theory of translation as a social, cultural and epistemological phenomenon
Abdul Gabbar Al-Sharafi
4. Conceptual narratives of knowledge translation and epistemicide: between translation studies and the cultural history of science
John Ødemark
Part II: Narratives and corpora
5. Intertextual narrativity and the translation of knowledge in the science museum: the case of extinction and climate change
Robert Neather
6. Networked narrative: The dedications of the Jesuit translator Franciscus de Smidt
Theo Hermans
7. Of heroes and terrorists. Narratives, categorization, corpora and translation
Federico Zanettin
8. How different are Chinese translations of political discourse by ChatGPT and by human translators? A case study of explicitation as a translation universal
Tao Li
9. Power, biopolitics and women's bodies: A corpus-based study of texts about women's reproductive health and their Korean translations
Kyung Hye Kim
Part III: Activism and solidarity
10. Name the narrator: examining literary translators as visible activists for translation
Caroline Summers
11. Sit-down comedy and writing back to authoritative religious discourse in Egyptian digital citizen media
Randa Aboubakr
12. 'Aspirational' and 'prefigurative translation' reconciled: revisiting the time, space and language of solidarity in the global justice movement
Julie Boéri
