Apter The Translation Zone

A New Comparative Literature
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4121-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 16, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Translation/Transnation

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Apter, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
TWENTY THESES ON TRANSLATION xi
INTRODUCTION 1

Introduction 3
CHAPTER 1: Translation after 9/11: Mistranslating the Art of War 12

PART ONE: TRANSLATING HUMANISM 23

CHAPTER 2: The Human in the Humanities 25
CHAPTER 3: Global Translatio: The "Invention" of Comparative Literature, Istanbul, 1933 41
CHAPTER 4: Saidian Humanism 65

PART TWO: THE POLITICS OF UNTRANSLATABILITY 83

CHAPTER 5: Nothing Is Translatable 85
CHAPTER 6: "Untranslatable" Algeria: The Politics of Linguicide 94
CHAPTER 7: Plurilingual Dogma: Translation by Numbers 109

PART THREE:LANGUAGE WARS 127

CHAPTER 8: Balkan Babel: Language Zones, Military Zones 129
CHAPTER 9: War and Speech 139
CHAPTER 10: The Language of Damaged Experience 149
CHAPTER 11: CNN Creole: Trademark Literacy and Global Language Travel 160
CHAPTER 12: Condé’s Créolité in Literary History 178

PART FOUR: TECHNOLOGIES OF TRANSLATION 191

CHAPTER 13: Nature into Data 193
CHAPTER 14: Translation with No Original: Scandals of Textual Reproduction 210
CHAPTER 15: Everything Is Translatable 226

CONCLUSION 241

CHAPTER 16: A New Comparative Literature 243

NOTES 253
INDEX 287

Über Autor(innen)

Emily Apter is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at New York University. Her most recent book is Continental Drift: From National Characters to Virtual Subjects.