Speaking memory : how translation shapes city life / edited by Sherry Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Sherry, author, editor.

Series:

Culture of cities

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Urban dialects.

Languages in contact.

Translating and interpreting.

Cities and towns.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

vi, 314 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016.

Summary:

"Exploring a wide variety of examples from both the past and present, this collection defines cities as fields of translational forces, of languages in conversation and in tension. From the 19th century multilingual border city to today's metropolis, language fractures and connections shape urban territory, giving the city its distinctive sensibility. Like architecture and urban planning, like the creation of monuments, translation defines the memories which survive, the narratives which tell the story of the city. Choosing what to remember is always a conflictual process, and particularly in cities with histories with internal language strife, acts of translation are a crucial part of this struggle. The essays draw a variegated portrait of the translational city, highlighting spaces of accelerated exchange and heightened language awareness. The contributions discuss cities across Europe (with particular attention to its Eastern borderlands) and the Americas (Canada, the US, Brazil, Uruguay). Emblematic importance is given to the layered memories of the Central European and Habsburg city (Vilnius, Prague, Brody, Trieste) as well as the traumas of passage from empire to nation. Subsequent essays explore the broader fault lines which traverse today's global city: the new ways in which immigrants imprint their presence and their memories in today's material and virtual cities, the obstacles to translation in the experience of the refugee and the exile, the ways in which media networks enhance or limit possibilities of translation, and the active and performative character of hybrid languages as they emerge in the interstices of city life."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Landscapes Of Memory

1 Locating Vilnius on the Map of Translation / Laimonas Briedis Briedis, Laimonas 23

2 A Modernist City Resisting Translation? Trieste between Slovenia and Italy / Katia Pizzi Pizzi, Katia 45

5 (Ethni)city under Scrutiny: Or, Tell Me Which Prague You Like and I'll Tell You Which Nation You Are (Not)! / Matteo Colombi Colombi, Matteo 58

4 Language Edges: Reading the Habsburg Border City / Sherry Simon Simon, Sherry 87

Part 2 Moving Fault Lines of the Global City

5 Digital Dublin: Translating the Cybercity / Michael Cronin Cronin, Michael 103

6 Monolingualism and Plural Narratives: The Translation of Suffering in the Language of the City / Simon Havel Havel, Simon, Carmen Ruschiensky Ruschiensky, Carmen 117

7 The Exilic City / Alexis Nouss Nouss, Alexis, Carmen Ruschiensky Ruschiensky, Carmen 142

8 Media Networks and Language-Crossing in Montreal / Will Straw Straw, Will 153

9 Medial Translations and Human Unsettlements: Planetary Urbanisms in McLuhan and Flusser / Michael Darroch Darroch, Michael 169

Part 3 Hybrid Urban Languages

10 Linguistic Zones of the French Atlantic / Bill Marshall Marshall, Bill 191

11 Antônio de Alcântara Machado's Brás, Bexiga e Barra Funda as a Translation of São Paulo during Brazilian Modernism / Roch Duval Duval, Roch 205

12 Artivism as a Form of Urban Translation: An Indisciplinary Hypothesis / Myriam Suchet Suchet, Myriam, Sarah Mekdjian Mekdjian, Sarah, Carmen Ruschiensky Ruschiensky, Carmen 220

13 Montreal's Third Spaces on Foot / Andre Furlani Furlani, Andre 249.

Notes:

All the translated articles included in this volume were originally written in French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Speaking memory.

ISBN:

9780773547889

0773547886

9780773547896

0773547894

OCLC:

948339669