Overview
- Considers how science fiction tropes manifest across languages and cultures
- Discusses how and to what extent science fiction translated into English misrepresents the source texts and cultures
- Moves beyond the production of science fiction to study the theory and process behind translation
Part of the book series: Studies in Global Science Fiction (SGSF)
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Science Fiction in Translation: Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation focuses on the process of translation and its implications. The volume explores the translation of works of science fiction (SF) from one language to another and the translation of SF tropes, terms, and ideas of SF theory into cultures outside the West. Providing a comprehensive examination of the state of translation into English, the essays consider how representative the body of translated work of SF is from the source language/culture. It also considers the social, political, and economic choices in selecting a work to translate. The book illustrates the dramatic growth both in SF production outside the Anglosphere, the translation of works from other languages into English, and the practice of translating English-language SF into other languages. Altogether, the essays map the theory, practice, and business of SF translation around the world.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
“Campbell’s volume is an indispensable collection of new voices and media spanning from at least the 1830s to the close of the 2010s, which … provides a tangible, though far reaching, web from which to choose a new vision for SF. … In a world where the lenses of SF and conscious reality seem to blur more and more, Campbell’s volume and the authors included are a beacon of hope.” (Alice G. Fulmer, SFRA Review, Vol. 53 (4), 2023)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ian Campbell is Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature at Georgia State University, USA. He is the author of Labyrinths, Intellectuals and the Revolution: The Arabic-Language Moroccan Novel, 1957–72 (2013) and Arabic Science Fiction (Palgrave 2018).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Science Fiction in Translation
Book Subtitle: Perspectives on the Global Theory and Practice of Translation
Editors: Ian Campbell
Series Title: Studies in Global Science Fiction
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84208-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84207-9Published: 09 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84210-9Published: 09 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84208-6Published: 01 January 2022
Series ISSN: 2569-8826
Series E-ISSN: 2569-8834
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 359
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Fiction, Literature, general, Literary Theory, Popular Culture , Modern Languages