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Translating Holocaust Lives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

AvJean Boase-Beier,Peter Davies,Andrea Hammel,Marion Winters

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For readers in the English-speaking world, almost all Holocaust writing is translated writing. Translation is indispensable for our understanding of the Holocaust because there is a need to tell others what happened in a way that makes events and experiences accessible – if not, perhaps, comprehensible – to other communities.Yet what this means is only beginning to be explored by Translation Studies scholars. This book aims to bring together the insights of Translation Studies and Holocaust Studies in order to show what a critical understanding of translation in practice and context can contribute to our knowledge of the legacy of the Holocaust. The role translation plays is not just as a facilitator of a semi-transparent transfer of information. Holocaust writing involves questions about language, truth and ethics, and a theoretically informed understanding of translation adds to these questions by drawing attention to processes of mediation and reception in cultural and historical context. It is important to examine how writing by Holocaust victims, which is closely tied to a specific language and reflects on the relationship between language, experience and thought, can (or cannot) be translated. This volume brings the disciplines of Holocaust and Translation Studies into an encounter with each other in order to explore the effects of translation on Holocaust writing. The individual pieces by Holocaust scholars explore general, theoretical questions and individual case studies, and are accompanied by commentaries by translation scholars.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-01-26
Mått156 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieBloomsbury Advances in Translation
Antal sidor264
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781474250283

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FiguresTablesList of ContributorsAcknowledgements1. Introduction, Jean Boase-Beier, Peter Davies, Andrea Hammel and Marion Winters2. Ethics and the translation of Holocaust lives, Peter DaviesResponse, Susan Bassnett3. Witnessing complicity in English and French: Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key and Elle s’appelait Sarah, Sue ViceResponse, Michaela Wolf4. A Textual and Paratextual Analysis of an Emigrant Autobiography and Its Translation, Marion WintersResponse, Kirsten Malmkjær5. In the Shadow of the Diary: Anne Frank’s fame and the Effects of Translation, Marian De VooghtResponse, Theo Hermans6. Translating Cultures and Languages: Exile Writers between German and English, Andrea HammelResponse, Chantal Wright7. Holocaust Poetry and Translation, Jean Boase-BeierResponse, Francis Jones8. Voices from a Void: The Holocaust in Norwegian Children’s Literature, Kjersti Lersbryggen MørkResponse, B. J. Epstein9. Distant stories, Belated memories - Irène Némirovsky and Elisabeth Gille, Angela KershawResponse, Gabriela Saldanha10. Self-translation and Holocaust Writing: Leonora Carrington’s Down Below, Jeannette Baxter Response, Cecilia RossiIndex

This book makes an important contribution to the long overdue analysis of the role of translation and translators in mediating the Holocaust. The contributors cover a wide range of genres and provide genuinely new insights into both Holocaust Studies and Translation Studies. The structure of the book, in which each chapter is followed by a short response from a Translation Studies scholar, opens up challenging questions of an epistemological and ethical nature and unlocks the potential for a productive dialogue between the two disciplines. A most welcome and thought-provoking volume.