Nation, language, and the ethics of translation / edited by Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bermann, Sandra, 1947-

Wood, Michael, 1936-

Series:

Translation/transnation.

Translation/transnation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its reproductions, and with globalization redefining national and cultural boundaries, "translation" is now emerging as a reformulated subject of lively, interdisciplinary debate. Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation enters the heart of this debate. It covers an exceptional range of topics, from simultaneous translation to legal theory, from the language of exile to the language of new nations, from the press to the cinema; and cultures and languages from contemporary Bengal to ancient Japan, from translations of Homer to the work of Don DeLillo. All twenty-two essays, by leading voices including Gayatri Spivak and the late Edward Said, are provocative and persuasive. The book's four sections--"Translation as Medium and across Media," "The Ethics of Translation," "Translation and Difference," and "Beyond the Nation"--together provide a comprehensive view of current thinking on nationality and translation, one that will be widely consulted for years to come. The contributors are Jonathan E. Abel, Emily Apter, Sandra Bermann, Vilashini Cooppan, Stanley Corngold, David Damrosch, Robert Eaglestone, Stathis Gourgouris, Pierre Legrand, Jacques Lezra, Françoise Lionnet, Sylvia Molloy, Yopie Prins, Edward Said, Azade Seyhan, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Henry Staten, Lawrence Venuti, Lynn Visson, Gauri Viswanathan, Samuel Weber, and Michael Wood.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction / Bermann, Sandra

PART I: TRANSLATION AS MEDIUM AND ACROSS MEDIA

The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals / Said, Edward

Issues in the Translatability of Law / Legrand, Pierre

Simultaneous Interpretation: Language and Cultural Difference / Visson, Lynn

A Touch of Translation: On Walter Benjamin's "Task of the Translator" / Weber, Samuel

The Languages of Cinema / Wood, Michael

PART II: THE ETHICS OF TRANSLATION

Translating into English / Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty

Tracking the "Native Informant": Cultural Translation as the Horizon of Literary Translation / Staten, Henry

Levinas, Translation, and Ethics / Eaglestone, Robert

Comparative Literature: The Delay in Translation / Corngold, Stanley

Translation as Community: The Opacity of Modernizations of Genji monogatari / Abel, Jonathan E.

Translation with No Original: Scandals of Textual Reproduction / Apter, Emily

PART III: TRANSLATION AND DIFFERENCE

Local Contingencies: Translation and National Identities / Venuti, Lawrence

Nationum Origo / Lezra, Jacques

Metrical Translation: Nineteenth-Century Homers and the Hexameter Mania / Prins, Yopie

Translating History / Bermann, Sandra

German Academic Exiles in Istanbul: Translation as the Bildung of the Other / Seyhan, Azade

DeLillo in Greece Eluding the Name / Gourgouris, Stathis

PART IV: BEYOND THE NATION

Translating Grief / Lionnet, Françoise

"Synthetic Vision": Internationalism and the Poetics of Decolonization / Viswanathan, Gauri

National Literature in Transnational Times: Writing Transition in the "New" South Africa / Cooppan, Vilashini

Postcolonial Latin America and the Magic Realist Imperative: A Report to an Academy / Molloy, Sylvia

Death in Translation / Damrosch, David

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612505591

9781282505599

1282505599

9781400826681

1400826683

OCLC:

592756171