Translating holocaust lives
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For readers in the English-speaking world, almost all Holocaust writing is translated writing. Translation is indispensable for our understanding of the Holocaust because there is a need to tell others what happened in a way that makes events and experiences accessible - if not, perhaps, comprehensible - to other communities. Yet what this means is only beginning to be explored by Translation Studies scholars. This book aims to bring together the insights of Translation Studies and Holocaust St…
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- Full title :Translating holocaust lives.
Summary
For readers in the English-speaking world, almost all Holocaust writing is translated writing. Translation is indispensable for our understanding of the Holocaust because there is a need to tell others what happened in a way that makes events and experiences accessible - if not, perhaps, comprehensible - to other communities. Yet what this means is only beginning to be explored by Translation Studies scholars. This book aims to bring together the insights of Translation Studies and Holocaust Studies in order to show what a critical understanding of translation in practice and context can contribute to our knowledge of the legacy of the Holocaust. The role translation plays is not just as a facilitator of a semi-transparent transfer of information. Holocaust writing involves questions about language, truth and ethics, and a theoretically informed understanding of translation adds to these questions by drawing attention to processes of mediation and reception in cultural and historical context. It is important to examine how writing by Holocaust victims, which is closely tied to a specific language and reflects on the relationship between language, experience and thought, can (or cannot) be translated. This volume brings the disciplines of Holocaust and Translation Studies into an encounter with each other in order to explore the effects of translation on Holocaust writing. The individual pieces by Holocaust scholars explore general, theoretical questions and individual case studies, and are accompanied by commentaries by translation scholars.
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- Publication Date:2017.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bloomsbury
- Place of Publication:Place of publication not identified
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2017.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781474250306, 1474250300, 1474250297, 9781474250290
- oclc:ocn967268686
- LC Classification:D804.3
- Dewey Decimal:418
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Figures; Table; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Jean Boase-Beier, Peter Davies, Andrea Hammeland Marion Winters; 2 Ethics and the Translation of Holocaust Lives; Peter Davies; Response; Susan Bassnett; 3 Witnessing Complicity in English and French:Tatiana de Rosnay's Sarah's Key and Elle s'appelait Sarah; Sue Vice; Response; Michaela Wolf; 4 A Textual and Paratextual Analysis of anEmigrant Autobiography and Its Translation; Marion Winters; Response; Kirsten Malmkjær; 5 In the Shadow of the Diary: AnneFrank's Fame and the Effects of Translation.
Marian de VooghtResponse; Theo Hermans; 6 Translating Cultures and Languages: ExileWriters between German and English; Andrea Hammel; Response; Chantal Wright; 7 Holocaust Poetry and Translation; Jean Boase-Beier; Response; Francis R. Jones; 8 Voices from a Void: The Holocaustin Norwegian Children's Literature; Kjersti Lersbryggen Mørk; Response to; B.J. Epstein; 9 Distant Stories, Belated Memories -- IrèneNémirovsky and Elisabeth Gille; Angela Kershaw; Response; Gabriela Saldanha; 10 Self-Translation and Holocaust Writing:Leonora Carrington's Down Below; Jeannette Baxter; Response.
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