Full Description
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City is the first multifaceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens of translation and how translation studies can be enriched by an understanding of the complex dynamics of the city.
Divided into four sections, the chapters are authored by leading scholars in translation studies, sociolinguistics, and literary and cultural criticism. They cover contexts from Brussels to Singapore and Melbourne to Cairo and topics from translation as resistance to translanguaging and urban design. This volume explores the role of translation at critical junctures of a city's historical transformation as well as in the mundane intercultural moments of urban life, and uncovers the trope of the translational city in writing.
This Handbook is critical reading for researchers, scholars and advanced students in translation studies, linguistics and urban studies.
Contents
List of figures and tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Thinking cities through translation
Part I
Key Issues
The translational city
Rewriting walls in the country you call home: Space as a site for asymmetries
Cartography and translation: Mapping and counter-mapping the city
Interartefactual translation: Metrolingualism and resemiotization
Reclaiming urban spaces through translation: A practitioner's account
Part II
The macrostructures of urban translation: Policies and institutions
Language and translation policies in a bilingual city with a multilingual population: The case of Brussels
Translating in occupied towns during the First World War: Between hegemonic policies and local practices
Urban translation and the 2020 Tokyo Games
Remediating lost memories of the city through translation: Istanbul as a space of remembering
Translation in global city Singapore: A holistic embrace in a multilingual milieu?
Imperial translational spaces and the politics of languages in Austria-Hungary: The case of Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv
Cities and desires: Translating Seoul
Translation and controversial monuments in Tallinn
Part III
Counter-writing cities: Translation as praxis
Translation as translanguaging: Acts of distinction in multilingual karate clubs in London
Cape Town as a multilingual city: Policies, experiences and ideologies
Translation and the struggle for urban symbolic capital in Cairo
Translation and trans-scripting: Languaging practices in the city of Athens
Countermapping the city in Dakar: A de-authorized translation
Migration, hip hop and translation zones in Delhi
Translation and translanguaging in artistic performances in Hong Kong
Part IV
Cities in writing, translation as trope
Sites of translation in Melbourne
La flâneuse montréalaise translates
Phantom translation in New Orleans
Translation interrupted: Memorial dissonance in Trieste
Autophagy as translation
Depicting a translational and transcultural city: Lagos in Nigerian writing
Index
