Atlantic Communities - Translation, Mobility, Hospitality

This book addresses Atlantic as a global translation zone, created through a myriad of crossings, physical and conceptual, and historically shaped through the reciprocal influences between different communities situated around and beyond its shores. It was originally published as a special issue of journal, Atlantic Studies.

List of contents

Introduction 1. The Atlantic Crossing and the "New World": The "odd political theology" of modernity 2. Translating China to the Atlantic West: Self, other, and Lin Yutang's resistance 3. The cross-Atlantic knowledge divide, or PISA for Development: Should one size ever fit all? 4. Mary Anne Sadlier's trans-Atlantic links: Migration, religion and translation 5. "Nothing important in common": Migrant memory and transnational identity in Joseph O'Neill's Netherland 6. Unworked and unavowable: Communities of practice in twenty-first century transatlantic poetry 7. Transatlantic re-soundings: Fats Waller's London Suite and the Jazz Atlantic

About the author

María Teresa Caneda-Cabrera is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Vigo, Spain and Principal Investigator of the MCIN/AEI-funded research project: INTRUTHS 2.
Rui Carvalho Homem is Professor of English at the University of Porto, Portugal, and Senior Researcher at CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies).
David Johnston is Professor of Translation in the Centre for Translation and Interpreting at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.

Summary

This book addresses Atlantic as a global translation zone, created through a myriad of crossings, physical and conceptual, and historically shaped through the reciprocal influences between different communities situated around and beyond its shores. It was originally published as a special issue of journal, Atlantic Studies.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Teresa (University of Vigo Caneda-Cabrera
• Assisted by: María Teresa Caneda-Cabrera (Editor), Rui Carvalho Homem (Editor), Homem Rui Carvalho (Editor), David Johnston (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032407913
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3240791-3
• No. of pages: 132
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Globalization, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting, International Relations, Colonialism & imperialism, Migration, immigration & emigration, Translation & interpretation, Political Economy, Migration, immigration and emigration, Colonialism and imperialism, Literary studies: post-colonial literature, Human Geography, Literary studies: postcolonial literature, Translation and interpretation