Translating Montreal : episodes in the life of a divided city / Sherry Simon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simon, Sherry.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Translating and interpreting--Quebec (Province)--Montreal--History--20th century.

Translating and interpreting.

Literature--Translations--History and criticism.

Literature.

Intercultural communication--Quebec (Province)--Montreal--History--20th century.

Intercultural communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Translating Montreal follows the trajectories of adventurous cultural translators such as Malcolm Reid, F.R. Scott, and A.M. Klein - pioneers of the 1950s and 1960s - Pierre Anctil, whose translations from Yiddish to French are emblematic of the dramatic reroutings now occurring across the Montreal landscape, and contemporary writer-translators such as Gail Scott, Erin Mouré, Jacques Brault, Michel Garneau, Nicole Brossard, and Emile Ollivier. Simon argues that translation is a dynamic and subtle tool for analysing cultural contact. An original take on cultural relations in the city, Translating Montreal explores the emergence of the "new" Montrealer. No longer "Franco-Québécois," "Anglo-Québécois," "immigrant," or "ethnic," the new Montrealer is a citizen of a mixed and cosmopolitan city.

Contents:

Introduction : moments of translation in a divided city

1. The crosstown journey of the 1960's

2. Diasporic translation : Klein in Mile End

3. Bifurcations : Yiddish turned to French

4. Paths of perversity : creative interference

5. Bridge to Babel : the cosmopolitan city

6. Conversations on the mountain : translating memory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612867484

9780773584662

0773584668

9781282867482

1282867482

9780773577022

0773577025

OCLC:

716062012