Translation and Geography

Federico Italiano is a senior research associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a lecturer in comparative literature at the Universiy of Munich (LMU). He is the author of Between Honey and Stone: Aspects of Geopoetics in Montale and Celan (2009, in Italian) and co-editor of several volumes including Translatio/n: Narration, Media and the Staging of Differences (with Michael Rössner, 2012) and The Disclosure of Light: Contemporary Italian Poetry (with Michael Krüger, 2013, in German).

• AknowledgmentsOrientation: An Introduction Navegar ver ponente: The Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis and its Venetian Translation Translating the Map: Carticity and Transmediation in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso Translating the Territory: Cabeza de Vaca’s Naufragios The Fiction of Translation: Abbé Prévost’s Nautical Writing Translating the Sea: Jules Verne, Nemo and Nineteenth-Century Oceanography Translational Mimesis: Tabucchi, the Azores and Cartographic Writing The Redress of (Self)Translation: Juan Gelman’s Dibaxu and the Cartography of SepharadNotesBibliographyIndex

‘Let’s orient translation studies! This is what this intriguing study allows us to do in offering a rich compendium of terms and concepts for navigating the cartographic imagination in translation studies. Essential reading for those working and teaching in geopolitics and the transdisciplinary humanities.’ Emily Apter, New York University, USA