Translation, Semiotics, and Feminism

Eva C. Karpinski is Associate Professor at York University in Toronto. She is the author of Borrowed Tongues: Life Writing, Migration, and Translation (2012) and co-editor of Life Writing Outside the Lines: Gender and Genre in the Americas (Routledge, 2020). She is Consulting Editor for a/b: Auto/Biography Studies.Elena Basile teaches at York University and the University of Toronto. She is the author of "A Scene of Intimate Entanglements or, Reckoning with the ‘Fuck’ of Translation," in Queering Translation, Translating the Queer (Routledge, 2017) and co-translator with Michela Baldo of Lorenzo Bernini’s Queer Theories: An Introduction (Routledge, 2020).

• List of FiguresAcknowledgements"Barbara Godard" - Preface Editors’ Introduction Part One: Theory and Praxis of Feminist Translation StudiesIntroduction to Part One Ch. 1 "The Translator as She" Ch. 2 "Translating and Sexual Difference" Ch. 3 "Theorizing Feminist Discourse/Translation"Ch. 4 "Translating (with) the Speculum" Part Two: ‘At an oblique angle’: Minor Vectors of Translation in the AmericasIntroduction to Part Two Ch. 5 "Writing Between Cultures" Ch. 6 "Relational Logics: Of Linguistic and Other Transactions in the Americas" Ch. 7 "Translation as Reception" Ch. 8 "Millennial Musings on Translation"Part Three: Semiotics and Ethics of TranslationIntroduction to Part Three Ch. 9 "Between Performative and Performance: Translation and Theatre in the Canadian/Quebec Context"Ch. 10 "The Ethics of Translating: Antoine Berman and the ‘Ethical Turn’ in Translation" (11) "Deleuze and Translation" (12) "Bodies for Examination"Part Four: The Translator as Subject/The Subject of TranslationIntroduction to Part Four Ch. 13 "Hors d’oeuvre: The Translator’s Preface"Ch. 14 Preface to Lovhers Ch. 15 "A translator’s Journal" Ch. 16 "The Moving Intimacy of Language." Introduction to Nicole Brossard’s Intimate JournalIndex

At Last! At Last! A welcome and essential collection of foundational essays on translation by the brilliant cultural critic, Barbara Godard. Meticulously edited, this volume reveals the thoughts and practice of one of the most significant, influential, and innovative contributors to feminist, postcolonial, national and international translation studies. This book is exceptional.Kathy Mezei, Simon Fraser University, Canada