Translating and interpreting conflict / edited by Myriam Salama-Carr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodopi (Firm), author, issuing body.

Series:

Approaches to translation studies ; 28.

Approaches to translation studies ; 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting.

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The relationship between translation and conflict is highly relevant in today’s globalised and fragmented world, and this is attracting increased academic interest. This collection of essays was inspired by the first international conference to directly address the translator and interpreter’s involvement in situations of military and ideological conflict, and its representation in fiction. The collection adopts an interdisciplinary approach, and the contributors to the volume bring to bear a variety of perspectives informed by media studies, historiography, literary scholarship and self-reflective interpreting and translation practice. The reader is presented with compelling case studies of the ‘embeddedness’ of translators and interpreters, either on the ground or as portrayed in fiction, and of their roles in mediating, memorizing or rewriting conflict. The theoretical reflection which the essays generate regarding mediation and neutrality, ethical involvement and responsibility, and the implications for translator and interpreter training, will be of interest to researchers in translation, interpreting, media, intercultural and postcolonial studies.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Myriam Salama-Carr

Interpreting and Translation for Western Media in Iraq / Jerry Palmer

The Practice of Translation and Interpreting During the Conflicts in the Former Yugoslavia (1991-1999) / Mila Dragovic-Drouet

Translators and Interpreters During the Opium War between Britain and China (1839-1842) / Lawrence Wang-chi Wong

The Grammar of Survival. How Do We Read Holocaust Testimonies? / Piotr Kuhiwczak

The Troy of Always: Translations of Conflict in Christopher Logue’s War Music / Paschalis Nikolaou

Ideological Independence or Negative Mediation: BBC Mundo and CNN en Español’s (translated) Reporting of Madrid’s Terrorist Attacks / Roberto A. Valdeón

One Nation, Two Translations: China's Censorship of Hillary Clinton's Memoir / Red Chan

Encounters with Cross-Cultural Conflicts in Translation / Jun Tang

Translating Conflict. Advertising in a Globalised Era / María Calzada Pérez

The Translation of William Le Queux’s The Invasion of 1910: What Germany Made of Scaremongering in The Daily Mail. / Ian Foster

Ferdinand Freiligrath, William Wordsworth, and the Translation of English Poetry into the Conflicts of Nineteenth Century German Nationalism / John Williams

Translating the Enemy: A ‘hip-hop’ Translation of a Poem by the Russian Futurist Velimir Khlebnikov (1885-1922) / Brian Chadwick

L’Étrange destin de Wangrin or the Political Accommodation of Interpretation / Sathya Rao

The Embedded Translator: a Coming Out Story / Beverley Curran

The Translator’s Visibility: the Rights and Responsibilities Thereof / Carol Maier

Notes on Contributors

INDEX OF NAMES.

Notes:

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0438-1

1-4356-0063-0

9789401204385

OCLC:

714567356

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401204385 DOI