This book presents a map of the application of memory studies concepts and approaches to the study of translation. While current research located at the intersection of translation studies and memory studies has so far been somewhat dispersed, this book embraces the full potential of the memory/translation nexus. Each chapter focuses on a particular type or types of memory: personal memory, group memory, electronic memory, textual memory, national memory, transnational memory, institutional memory and cosmopolitan connective memory. The link with translation is illustrated by one or two case...

This book presents a map of the application of memory studies concepts and approaches to the study of translation. While current research located at the intersection of translation studies and memory studies has so far been somewhat dispersed, this book embraces the full potential of the memory/translation nexus. Each chapter focuses on a particular type or types of memory: personal memory, group memory, electronic memory, textual memory, national memory, transnational memory, institutional memory and cosmopolitan connective memory. The link with translation is illustrated by one or two case...

This volume seeks to investigate the representation of the migrant and migration in literary texts and the arts. Through studies that examine works in a range of art forms ‒ novels, theatre, poetry, creative non-fiction, documentary films and performance and video installations ‒ that evoke a variety of historical and (trans)national contexts, the volume focuses on the question of the roles of literature and the arts in representing migration. An important issue considered is the extent to which artistic figuration can act as a counterpoint to social discourse on migrants that often...