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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Memory serves as a timely and unique resource for the current boom in thinking around translation and memory. The Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of a contemporary, and as yet unconsolidated, research landscape with a four-section structure which encompasses both current debate and future trajectories.
Twenty-four chapters written by leading and emerging international scholars provide a cross-sectional snapshot of the diverse angles of approach and case studies that have thus far driven research into translation and memory. A valuable, far-reaching range of theoretical, empirical, reflective, comparative, and archival approaches are brought to bear on translational sites of memory and mnemonic sites of translation through the examination of topics such as traumatic, postcolonial, cultural, literary, and translator memory.
This Handbook is key reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in translation studies, memory studies, and related areas.
List of contents
List of contributors
Introduction
I. Translation and memory of trauma
- Translating Holocaust testimony: a translator's perspective
- Translating the perpetrator's testimony: Kommandant in Auschwitz (Holocaust) and Une saison de machettes (Rwanda)
- Translating collective memory of Beslan: Russian state television news coverage of annual commemorations
- Conflicting memories of war interpreting
- Translation and colonial memory in East Africa
- At the intersection of the writing of translations and memory: bridging communities affected by past conflict
II. End-users
- Translated Holocaust poetry and the reader
- Travelling memory, transcreation and politics: the case of Refugee tales
- Mnemonic entrepreneurship and trans(articu)lation of the Philippine national anthem
- Translation, memory, and the museum visitor
- Reframing collective memory in museums
- Heritage interpretation(s): remembering, translating, and utilizing the past
III. Figuring memory and translation
- Re-trans-post: translation as memory in Québécois culture
- Translating trauma in the literary text: violent pasts in Mathias Énard's Zone and its English and German versions
- Transcultural counter-memory and translation in contemporary Spanish fiction
- Translating counter-memory in Australian Aboriginal texts
- Postmemory lost: historiographical meta-fiction Jinling Shishan Chai in translation
- Collective and corrective memories of a classic: mapping Oliver Twist's memory in translation
IV. Future trajectories
- An archive of hope: translating memories of revolution
- Translator memory and archives
- The French diplomat and the Omaha shopkeeper: photographs of interpreters, 1873-1910
- Translation memory systems
- Computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools, translation memory and literary translation
- Translation and Inuit memory
Index
About the author
Sharon Deane-Cox is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies at the University of Strathclyde, UK, Assistant Editor of
Translation Studies, and member of the Young Academy of Scotland. She has published a monograph on
Retranslation (2014), while more recent projects include research on the translation of Holocaust memory, Scottish heritage translation, and interpreter history.
Anneleen Spiessens is an Assistant Professor at Ghent University and is affiliated with the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication. Her research focuses on ethical, political, and mnemonic aspects of translation. She is the author of
Quand le bourreau prend la parole: génocide et littérature (2016).
Summary
This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of a contemporary research landscape with a four-section structure which encompasses both current debate and future trajectories. It is key reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in Translation Studies, Memory Studies, and related areas.
Report
"This valuable and timely collection of essays explores the multiple connections between translation and memory studies. The international contributors offer exciting new ways of looking at the inter-relatedness of translation and memory in a wide range of aspects of human experience. This is an important book."
Susan Bassnett, Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, UK
