Translator’s Visibility

Larisa Cercel is a researcher at the Hermeneutics and Creativity Research Centre at the University of Leipzig (Germany). She is currently conducting a long-term research project at the University La Sapienza in Rome as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.Alice Leal is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies at Wits University (South Africa).

• ContentsList of contributorsAcknowledgementsINTRODUCTIONPlural voices and epistemologies around the translator’s visibilityAlice LealPART 1: Contemporary foundations1. Visibility: Contingencies, ruptures, kindsA. E. B. ColdironPART 2 : Philosophical underpinnings2. The translator’s invisibility and the correspondence theory of truthAlodia Martin-Martinez 3. Philosophy’s resistance to translationBrian O’Keeffe 4. On visibility: A Wittgensteinian stancePaulo OliveiraPART 3: Manifestations, illustrations, point of view5. Modernism, foreignization, and form: “Translationmourning” in Anne Carson’s NOXSean Cotter6. Literary translators on visibility: To what extent and in which ways is it a concern?Adriana ŞerbanPART 4: Different contexts, areas and disciplines7. Making the nation visible in two ways: Lessons from Venuti for the EULisa Foran 8. Relative visibility: Buddhist translators in Ancient ChinaTianran Wang9. The screenwriter as translator: Venuti’s (in)visibility in the field of screenwritingRina Gefen & Rachel Weissbrod PART 5 : Future direction10. Machine visibility nowMarc LebonPOSTFACEEnvisioning in-visibilityD. M. SpitzerIndex