Arrojo Fictional Translators

Rethinking Translation through Literature
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-317-57457-6
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: New Perspectives in Translation and Interpreting Studies

In Fictional Translators, Rosemary Arrojo explores the possibilities of fiction for a reflection on the nature of translation. Drawing on a range of fictional works from Borges to Kafka and Poe to Calvino, Arrojo focuses on the transformative character of the translator’s role in the production of translations. In exploring these stories and novels, we see how they can illuminate rarely explored issues such as the psychology that underlies the power relationships often at work in the writing of translations. This book is key reading for students and researchers of Literary Translation, Comparative Literature and Translation Theory.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Arrojo, Rosemary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Power of Fiction as Theory: The Exemplarity of Borges’s Work 2. On Translation as Transference: Pierre Menard, Translator of Cervantes 3. Translation as Subversion in Latin American Fiction 4. On Translation as Transference: Borges, Reader of Whitman 5. A Portrait of the Translator as Laborer – Rodolfo Walsh’s "Nota al pie" 6. Writing and Interpreting in Conflict – Kafka, Borges and Kosztolányi 7. The Power of Originals and the Perils of Repetition – Edgar A. Poe’s "The Oval Portrait" 8.Translation and Impropriety— Claude Bleton’s Les nègres du traducteur 9. The Gendering of Translation – Italo Calvino’s If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler and Moacyr Scliar’s "Footnotes" 10. Textual/Sexual Power in José Saramago’s History of the Siege of Lisbon and Isaac Babel’s "Guy de Maupassant"