Textile Translations

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Weaving Stories, Touching Meanings

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte, Mª Carmen Africa Vidal Claramonte, Ma Carmen África Vidal Claramonte

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Textile Translations: Weaving Stories, Touching Meanings offers a new and original perspective in translation studies. The key idea explored in this book is that we communicate not only through our intellect but also through our senses. Mª Carmen África Vidal Claramonte presents her view that if we communicate with our body, we also translate with our body through embodied translations. The book focuses on textile art as a form of textile translation that communicates without words, not only through the visual but also through tactile sensory experiences. It is richly illustrated with examples such as arpilleras and other creations by contemporary artists, such as Ghada Amer and Jen Bervin, who use the tactility of materials to rewrite not only situations of injustice, poverty, abuse of power, suffering, and despair, but also of hope and solidarity. A key text for anyone studying and researching translation studies, but also, due to the transdisciplinary nature of the book, it will appeal to those with an interest in anthropology and sensory studies.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2025-12-23
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor152
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781041146254

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Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Sprak och ordbocker
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skonlitteratur
Antropologi inom Samhalle och politik
Textil konst inom Kultur

AcknowledgementsPreface, by Loredana PolezziIntroduction1. The body is a resonant chamber2. Translation is an embodied resonant chamber2.1 Translating without words2.2 Translation as an embodied experience2.3 Translating through touch3. Touching meaning through textiles3.1 Communicating through textiles3.2 Translating through textiles3.3 The threads and knots of translation4. Textile translations: the case of arpilleras4.1 Political textile translations4.2 The materiality of arpilleras as political textile translations5. Feminist textile translations in the 21st century5.1 Feminist textile artists5.2 Political textile translations: Ghada Amer5.3 Between literature and art: translating through sewing with Jen Bervin6. Unravelling the infinite threads of translation7. ReferencesIndex

Here is yet another rich, original, and stimulating book from África Vidal Claramonte that complements and extends her earlier work on translation and art, materiality, the ecology of knowledges, and sensory perception. Through masterful engagement with cutting-edge research in translation studies and anthropology, this monograph adds critical insights to the ongoing debates about the role of embodied experience in conceptualising translation.Piotr Blumczynski, Queen's University Belfast, UKAn innovative, sensuous rethinking of translation, this book foregrounds texture and form as sites of meaning, embracing the material, affective, and intermedial dimensions of communication. Engaging deeply with semiotics and multisensory expression, Vidal’s work opens vital new pathways for understanding meaning-making through textile practices and challenges long-standing logocentric and ocular-centric biases in the field.--Raluca Tanasescu (University of Galway)