Routledge Handbook of Translation and Memory

Sharon Deane-Cox is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Strathclyde, UK, Assistant Editor of Translation Studies, and member of the Young Academy of Scotland. She has published a monograph on Retranslation (2014), while more recent projects include research on the translation of Holocaust memory, Scottish heritage translation, and interpreter history. Anneleen Spiessens is an Assistant Professor at Ghent University and is affiliated with the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication. Her research focuses on ethical, political, and mnemonic aspects of translation. She is the author of Quand le bourreau prend la parole: génocide et littérature (2016).

• List of contributors IntroductionI. Translation and memory of trauma Translating Holocaust testimony: a translator’s perspective Translating the perpetrator’s testimony: Kommandant in Auschwitz (Holocaust) and Une saison de machettes (Rwanda) Translating collective memory of Beslan: Russian state television news coverage of annual commemorations Conflicting memories of war interpreting Translation and colonial memory in East Africa At the intersection of the writing of translations and memory: bridging communities affected by past conflictII. End-users Translated Holocaust poetry and the reader Travelling memory, transcreation and politics: the case of Refugee tales Mnemonic entrepreneurship and trans(articu)lation of the Philippine national anthem Translation, memory, and the museum visitor Reframing collective memory in museums Heritage interpretation(s): remembering, translating, and utilizing the pastIII. Figuring memory and translation Re-trans-post: translation as memory in Québécois culture Translating trauma in the literary text: violent pasts in Mathias Énard’s Zone and its English and German versions Transcultural counter-memory and translation in contemporary Spanish fiction Translating counter-memory in Australian Aboriginal texts Postmemory lost: historiographical meta-fiction Jinling Shishan Chai in translation Collective and corrective memories of a classic: mapping Oliver Twist’s memory in translationIV. Future trajectories An archive of hope: translating memories of revolution Translator memory and archives The French diplomat and the Omaha shopkeeper: photographs of interpreters, 1873–1910 Translation memory systems Computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools, translation memory and literary translation Translation and Inuit memoryIndex

"This valuable and timely collection of essays explores the multiple connections between translation and memory studies. The international contributors offer exciting new ways of looking at the inter-relatedness of translation and memory in a wide range of aspects of human experience. This is an important book."Susan Bassnett, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, UK