Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9781138931657 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 282 str.

Olga Castro; Emek Ergun

Opis

Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives situates feminist translation as political activism. Chapters highlight the multiple agendas and visions of feminist translation and the different political voices and cultural heritages through which it speaks across times and places, addressing the question of how both literary and nonliterary discourses migrate and contribute to local and transnational processes of feminist knowledge building and political activism. This collection does not pursue a narrow, fixed definition of feminism that is based solely on (Eurocentric or West-centric) gender politics rather, Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives seeks to expand our understanding of feminist action not only to include feminist translation as resistance against multiple forms of domination, but also to rethink feminist translation through feminist theories and practices developed in different geohistorical and disciplinary contexts. In so doing, the collection expands the geopolitical, sociocultural and historical scope of the field from different disciplinary perspectives, pointing towards a more transnational, interdisciplinary and overtly political conceptualization of translation studies. "

O autorze

Olga Castro is Assistant Professor in Translation Studies at the University of Warwick, UK.　Prior to joining Warwick in 2019, she held different positions at Aston University and the University of Exeter. Her latest publications include Self-Translation and Power (2017, co-edited with Mainer and Page) and Feminismos (2013, co-authored with Reimóndez). Her current research focuses on translation across transnational borders, particularly in relation to feminism and minorised/stateless cultures within multilingual settings. She is Vice-President of the Association of Programmes in Translation and Interpreting of the UK and Ireland (APTIS).　 Emek Ergun is an activist-translator and Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She earned her interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her research focuses on the geo/political role of translation in connecting feminist activists and movements across borders. She is currently working on her first monograph exploring the ways in which the debiologizing virginity theories of a US-American book on the history of western virginities traveled to Turkey through her politically engaged translation.