Witness between Languages - The Translation of Holocaust Testimonies in Context

Shows how making translation and its effects visible contributes to a clearer understanding of how knowledge about the Holocaust has been and continues to be created and mediated.

List of contents

Introduction
Translation and the Witness Text
Making Translation Visible
Elie Wiesel's Night: Searching for the Original
Translation, the Cold War, and Repressed Memory: Vasily Grossman's The Hell of Treblinka and Anatoli Kuznetsov's Babii Yar
Self-Translation and the Language of the Perpetrators: Krystyna Zywulska's Auschwitz Testimony
Filip Müller's Sonderkommando Testimonies: Witnessing in Translation
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Peter Davies

Summary

Shows how making translation and its effects visible contributes to a clearer understanding of how knowledge about the Holocaust has been and continues to be created and mediated.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Davies
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781640140295
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-029-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 236 mm x 161 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 606 g
• Series: Dialogue and Disjunction: Stud; Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought; Dialogue and Disjunction: Studies in Jewish German Literature, Culture & Thought; Dialogue and Disjunction: Stud
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics