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Perspectives on Retranslation: Ideology, Paratexts, Methods explores retranslation from a variety of aspects and reflects methodological and theoretical developments in the field. Featuring eleven chapters, each offering a unique approach, the book presents a well-rounded analysis of contemporary issues in retranslation. It brings together case studies and examples from a range of contexts including France, the UK, Spain, the US, Brazil, Greece, Poland, modern Turkey, and the Ottoman Empire. The chapters highlight a diversity of cultural settings and illustrate the assumptions and epistemologies underlying the manifestations of retranslation in various cultures and time periods. The book expressly challenges a Eurocentric view and treats retranslation in all of its complexity by using a variety of methods, including quantitative and statistical analysis, bibliographical studies, reception analysis, film analysis, and musicological, paratextual, textual, and norm analysis. The chapters further show the dominant effect of ideology on macro and micro translation decisions, which comes into sharp relief in the specific context of retranslation.
List of contents
Introduction
Özlem Berk Albachten and Sehnaz Tahir Gürçaglar
Section I. Ideology and Censorship in Retranslation
1. Retranslating Lorca's "Ode to Walt Whitman" from Taboo to Totem
Andrew Samuel Walsh
2. Retranslating D. H. Lawrence in the 21st-Century: From Censorship to Marketability
Nathalie Ségeral
3. Retranslating in a Censorial Context: H.C. Armstrong's Grey Wolf in Turkish
Ceyda Özmen
Section II. Paratextual Studies in Retranslation
4. Repackaging, Retranslation, and Intersemiotic Translation: A Turkish Novel in Greece
Arzu Eker-Roditakis
5. Extratextual Factors Shaping Preconceptions about Retranslation: Bruno Schulz in English
Zofia Ziemann
Section III. Towards New Objects, Methods, and Concepts
6. Critical Edition as Retranslation: Mediating Ali Ufu i's Notation Collections (c. 1630-1670)
Judith I. Haug
7. Readers and Retranslation. Transformation in Readers' Habituses in Turkey from the 1930s to 2010s
Müge Isiklar Koçak and Ahu Selin Erkul Yagci
8. Translation Modalities Method in Retranslation Analysis: A Paixão Segundo G. H. in English.
Julieta Widman
9. Towards an Empirical Methodology for Identifying Plagiarism in Retranslation
Mehmet Sahin, Derya Duman, Damla Kales, Sabri Gürses, and David Woolls
Section IV. Retranslation History and Bibliographical Studies
10. Retranslation History and its Contribution to Translation History: The Case of Russian-Dutch Retranslation
Piet Van Poucke
11. The Making and Reading of a Bibliography of Retranslations
Özlem Berk Albachten and Sehnaz Tahir Gürçaglar
About the author
Özlem Berk Albachten is professor of Translation Studies at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. She has published widely on Turkish translation history and is the author of
Translation and Westernization in Turkey: from the 1840s to the 1980s (2004) and
Kuramlar Işığında Açıklamalı Çeviribilim Terimcesi (2005 - Translation Terminology in Light of Theories).
Şehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar is professor of translation studies and teaches at the graduate programs at Glendon College, York University and Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. Her main fields of interest are translation history, ideology and translation and periodical studies. She is the author of
The Politics and Poetics of Translation in Turkey, 1923-1960 (2008).
Summary
This volume examines the development of retranslation as both concept and practice as it has evolved since the "retranslation hypothesis" was first proposed in the early 1990s. The book considers how key historical eras and shifts in cultural norms and ideologies in the target cultures can serve as agents in the development of retranslated works.
