Examining Text and Authorship in Translation

Caroline Summers is Lecturer in Comparative Literary Translation at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research focuses on the literary text as an object of cultural exchange and on the construction of authorial identities through literary translation, especially the status of the text as a point of intersection between the activities of different agents in the translation process.

• 1. Introduction: Christa Wolf and the Problem of International Authorship.- 2. Understanding Translated Authorship.- 3. The Subjective Narrator: Nachdenken über Christa T..- 4. The Author as Feminist: Kassandra.- 5. Politics, Morality and Aesthetics: Two Translations of Was bleibt.- 6. Conclusion: What Remains? The Quest for Christa Wolf