African Perspectives on Literary Translation

ISBN-13: 9780367432386 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 292 str.

Judith Inggs; Ella Wehrmeyer

Opis

This unique volume is a key resource for students and scholars in translation studies, giving visibility to African perspectives on literary translation while pointing the way forward for future research directions.

Spis treści

Foreword Mona Baker  Introduction Ella Wehrmeyer and Judith Inggs  Part 1: Methodological and sociohistorical overview  1. Translating Africa Paul Bandia  2. The ethical in literary translation Libby Meintjes  3. Broadening latitudes: mapping a sociological history of literary translation into Swahili Serena Talento  Part 2: Product-oriented literary translation  4. Crossing continents: a critical discourse analytical study of the translation of South African Young Adult texts into French and German Judith Inggs  5. The translation of diasporic African Indian autobiographical voices into the languages of Spain: Achmat Dangor (1948–) and Moyez G. Vassanji (1950–) Juan Miguel Zarandona  6. Mapping culture in literary translation Ella Wehrmeyer  7. Self-translation of an Afrikaans short story by SJ Naudé Eleanor Cornelius and George de Bruin  8. Translating emotion conceptual metaphors: a case of Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom in isiXhosa Bulelwa Nokele  9. Translating linguistic hybridity and indigenous words in Mia Couto’s novel A varanda do frangipani Celina Cachucho  10. Proverb translation to the realm of the story in Chinua Achebe’s novels Amechi N. Akwanya  Part 3: Reception and process studies  11. Translating the neighbour: contemporary Maghrebi literature in Spain Mònica Rius-Piniés  12. Women as protagonists in West African plays translated in Cuba Rocío Anguiano Pérez 13. Who’s the boss? Power relations between agents in the literary translation process Ilse Feinauer and Amanda Lourens  14. Translating Une Vie de Boy: a Bourdieusian study of agency in literary translation Felix Awung  Conclusion  15. A curriculum for literary translation in a multilingual South African classroom Christopher Fotheringham