Translating Memories of Violent Pasts: Memory Studies and Translation Studies in Dialogue (Creative, Social and Transnational Perspectives on Translation)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781000921694

Related ISBNs:

9780367711788, 9780367711764, 9781003149651

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

08/30/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Claudia Jünke and Désirée Schyns

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Language Arts

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Claudia Jünke

Edited by:

Désirée Schyns