Translating Holocaust lives

by Boase-Beier, Jean Davies, Peter Hammel, Andrea Winters, Marion

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Full title :Translating Holocaust lives / edited by Jean Boase-Beier, Peter Davies, Andrea Hammel and Marion Winters.

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2017

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
Place of Publication:London ; Oxford ; New York ; New Delhi ; Sydney
Language:eng
Publication Date:2017

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 250 Seiten

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781474250283, 1474250289, 9781474250306, 1474250300, 9781474250290, 1474250297
oclc:ocn976014621
LC Classification:BM150-449
Dewey Decimal:909

Subjects

Aufsatzsammlung Historiography Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Histor… Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Historiographie Judenvernichtung Literatur Translating and interpreting -- Social … Übersetzungswissenschaft