Critical Readings in Translation Studies

ISBN-13: 9780415469555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 512 str.

Mona Baker

Opis

This is an integrated and structured set of progressive readings from translation and related disciplines, which provides a comprehensive overview of the field and how it is developing.

Recenzje

'This volume represents a much needed break from the canon that currently defines - but also restricts - the scope of translation studies. Read Venuti to see where we have come from; read Baker to see where we are heading.'

Stuart Campbell, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Spis treści

Part 1: Politics and Dynamics of Representation  1. 'The Concept of Cultural Translation in British Social Anthropology', Talal Asad  2. 'Packaging "Huda": Sha’rawi’s Memoirs in the United States Reception Environment', Mohja Kahf  Part 2: Modes and Strategies: The Language(s) of Translation  3. 'Writing Between the Lines: The Language of Translation', John Sturrock  4. 'Translation as Cultural Politics: Regimes of Domestication in English', Lawrence Venuti  Part 3: Text, Discourse and Ideology  5. 'Discourse, Ideology and Translation', Ian Mason  6. '"Poru Ruta"/Paul Rotha and the Politics of Translation', Abé Mark Nornes  7. 'Reframing Conflict in Translation', Mona Baker  Part 4: The Voice of Authority: Institutional Settings and Alliances  8. 'The Registration Interview: Restricting Refugees’ Narrative Performance', Marco Jacquemet  9. 'The Interpreter as Institutional Gatekeeper: The Social-linguistic Role of Interpreters in Spanish-English Medical Discourse ', Brad Davidson  10. 'Translating the Bible in Nineteenth-Century India: Protestant Missionary Translation and the Standard Tamil Version', Hephzibah Israel  Part 5: Individual Voice and Positionality  11. 'The Translator’s Voice in Translated Narrative', Theo Hermans  12. 'Ideology and the Position of the Translator: In What Sense is a Translator ‘In Between’?', Maria Tymoczko  13. 'National Sovereignty versus Universal Rights: Interpreting Justice in a Global Context', Moira Inghilleri  Part 6: Minority Issues: Cultural Identity and Survival  14. 'The Cracked Looking Glass of Servants: Translation and Minority Languages in a Global Age', Michael Cronin  15. 'Locating Power: Corsican Translators and Their Critics', Alexandra Jaffe  Part 7: Translation in World Systems  16. 'Consecration and Accumulation of Literary Capital. Translation as Unequal Exchange', Pascale Casanova  17. 'Towards a Sociology of Translation: Book Translations as a Cultural World-System', Johan Heilbron  Part 8: The Making of Literary Traditions  18. 'Pharoah’s Revenge: Translation, Literary History and Colonial Ambivalence ', Samah Selim  19. 'Translation’s Challenge to Critical Categories: Verses from French in the Early English Renaissance', A.E.B. Coldiron  20. 'Engendered by Translation: Modern Japanese Literature, Vernacular Style, and the Westernesque Femme Fatale', Indra Levy  Part 9: Translation and War  21. 'Translation in Wartime', Vicente Rafael  22. 'War, Translation, Transnationalism: Interpreters in and of the War (Croatia, 1991-1992)', Zrinka Stahuljak  Part 10: Changing Landscapes: New Media & Technologies  23. 'Machine Translation and Global English', Rita Raley  24. 'Translation in the Age of Postmodern Production: From Text to Intertext to Hypertext', Karen Littau  25. 'A New Line in the Geometry', Eric Cazdyn

O autorze

Mona Baker is Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.