The Routledge handbook of translation and censorship / edited by Denise Merkle and Brian James Baer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Merkle, Denise, editor.

Baer, Brian James, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks in translation and interpreting studies.

Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Censorship.

Translating and interpreting.

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource (551 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, England ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Censorship is the first handbook to provide a comprehensive overview of the topic, offering broad geographic and historical coverage, and extending the political contexts to incorporate colonial and postcolonial contexts, and pluralistic societies.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series Information

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Introduction: Theorizing Translation and Censorship

Organization of the Volume

References

Part I Illiberal and Religious Contexts

1 Translation and Censorship in the Arab World and Its Diasporas

1.1 Introduction and Definitions

1.1.1 Contextualising Translation and Censorship

1.1.2 What Is Censorship (In Arabic)?

1.1.3 Mechanisms of Censorship in Translation

1.2 Historical Perspectives

1.2.1 Literary Translation and Censorship

1.2.2 Children's Literature Translation and Censorship

1.2.3 Translation and Media Censorship

1.2.4 Audio-Visual Translation and Censorship

1.2.5 Subtitling and Censorship

1.2.6 Dubbing and Censorship

1.3 Core Issues

1.3.1 Social Translation and Its Censorship In/of the Arab World

1.4 Future Directions

Notes

2 Suppression and Defiance: Translation and Censorship in Germany

2.2 Historical Perspectives

2.3 Core Issues and Topics

2.4 Recent Concepts of Censorship and the Role of Translation

2.5 Summary

2.6 Outlook and New Debates

3 Censorship in Modern Iran

3.1 Core Issues

3.1.1 Introduction

3.1.2 Definitions

3.2 Historical Perspectives: Publishing, Literature, Translation

3.2.1 Pahlavi Dynasty

3.2.2 Under the Islamic Republic

3.3 New Debates

3.3.1 How to Subvert Censorship in Iran

3.3.2 Cultural and Artistic Activities: Film

3.3.3 Iranian Cinema Before the Revolution

3.3.4 Iranian Cinema After the Revolution

3.3.5 Theatre and Music in Modern-Day Iran

3.4 Potential Research Avenues

4 Censorship in Russia: Tsarist, Soviet and Post-Soviet Contexts

4.1 Core Issues

4.2 The Tsarist Period

4.3 The Soviet Period.

4.4 The Post-Soviet Period

4.5 Future Directions

5 Censorship of Translated Books in Turkey: An Overview

5.2 Historical Perspectives

5.3 Core Issues and Topics

5.3.1 Censorship On the Grounds of Communist Propaganda

5.3.2 Censorship On the Grounds of Obscenity

5.3.3 Censorship On Other Grounds

5.4 New Debates

5.5 New Perspectives for Research

Note

Part II Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts

6 Cold War Politics in East Africa: Between Translation and Censorship

6.1 Core Issues and Topics

6.2 Censorship in East Africa: an Overview

6.3 Translation and Censorship During the Cold War Period

6.4 New Debates

6.5 Conclusion

7 Translation and Censorship in the History of Estonia: Multilingualism, Linguistic Hierarchies and Centres of Power

7.2 Historical Perspectives

7.3 1535-1710: Linguistico-Theological Bans

7.4 1710-1918: Tsarist Censorship and the Birth of Literary Estonian Through Translation

7.5 1918-1940: the Republic of Estonia

7.6 1940-1991: the Soviet Period

7.7 Core Issues and Topics

7.8 New Debates

Acknowledgements

8 Censorship and Translation in Hispanic South America: The First Translation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

8.2 Historical Perspectives: Historiography as Rewriting

8.3 Core Issues and Topics

8.3.1 Political Censorship: the Spanish Monarchy

8.3.2 Religious Censorship: the Inquisition

8.3.3 Circulation of Non-Literary Texts in Imperial Spain and Its American Colony

8.3.4 The First Translation Into Spanish of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

8.4 New Debates

8.5 Conclusion

9 Censorship of Translations in Latvia: A Historical Perspective

9.1 Core Topics

9.2 Historical Perspectives.

9.2.1 Tsarist Censorship

9.2.2 Independence

9.2.3 First Soviet Occupation

9.2.4 German Occupation

9.2.5 Second Soviet Occupation: the Stalin Years

9.2.6 Second Soviet Occupation: the Thaw

9.2.7 Second Soviet Occupation: Stagnation

9.2.8 Second Soviet Occupation: the Late Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods

9.3 New Debates

9.4 Directions for Future Research

10 Censorship and Translation of Slovene Texts in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Kingdom of Yugoslavia

10.2 Historical Perspectives

10.2.1 Counter-Reformation

10.2.2 Enlightened Despotism (1751-1848)

10.2.3 March Revolution of 1848 and Its Aftermath (1848-1914)

10.2.4 Between the First and Second World Wars (1914-1945)

10.3 Core Issues and Topics

10.4 New Debates

11 Translation and Censorship in Ukraine Under Russian and Austrian Rule, 1800-1917

11.1 Historical Perspectives

11.2 Core Issues and Topics

11.3 New Debates

Part III Communist/Socialist Contexts

12 Censorship and Translation in China

12.2 Historical Perspectives

12.3 Core Issues and Topics

12.4 New Debates

13 Censorship in Disguise: The Multiple Layers of Censorship of Literary Works in the GDR

13.2 Historical Perspectives

13.3 Core Issues and Topics

13.3.1 Further Censorship Mechanisms

13.3.1.1 Centralisation

13.3.1.2 Planning

13.3.2 Distribution and Circulation

13.3.2.1 Book Trade

13.3.2.2 Libraries

13.3.3 Censorship Criteria

13.3.4 Importance of Paratexts

13.4 New Debates

13.4.1 Investigation of Actors

13.4.2 Cadre Politics

13.4.3 Specialised Translation and Interpreting

13.4.4 Ideological Training

13.5 Conclusion

14 Communist Censorship in Hungary and Beyond

14.2 Core Issues and Topics.

14.2.1 Withdrawal Lists (1949-1950)

14.2.2 The Mechanisms and Institutions of Censorship

14.2.3 Some Literatures Are More Equal Than Others

14.3 Historical Perspective

14.4 New Debates

14.5 Conclusion

15 Institutional Censorship and Literary Translation in Communist Poland, 1945-1958

15.2 Historical Perspectives

15.3 Critical Issues and Topics

15.4 New Debates

15.4.1 General Methods of Censoring Translations

15.4.1.1 Procedure

15.4.1.2 Text Selection

15.4.2 Author-Based Censorship

15.4.3 Censorship Because of the Translator

15.4.4 Interventions and Rejections

15.4.5 Interventions and Detentions

15.5 Case Studies

15.5.1 Russian

15.5.2 German

15.5.3 English

15.5.4 French

15.6 Potential Research Avenues

16 Translation and Censorship in Soviet and Independent Ukraine

16.1 Historical Perspectives

16.1.1 Translation and Censorship in Soviet Ukraine Between the World Wars (1922-1939)

16.1.2 Translation and Censorship in Soviet Ukraine From WWII to the Collapse of the USSR

16.1.3 Translation and Censorship in Independent Ukraine

16.2 Core Issues and Topics

16.3 New Debates

17 Translation and Censorship in Romania

17.1 Introduction

17.2 Historical Perspectives

17.2.1 Beginnings of Modern Censorship (Late Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries)

17.2.2 The Twentieth Century: Democracy Between the Two World Wars

17.2.3 The Communist Period (1945-1989)

17.2.3.1 Beginnings of Communism (1945-1958)

17.2.3.2 First Signs of Political Emancipation (1958-1965)

17.2.3.3 (Relative) Liberalisation (1965-1974)

17.2.3.4 The Last Years of Communist Dictatorship (1975-1989)

17.2.4 Post-Communism

17.3 Core Issues and Topics

17.3.1 'Paradoxes' of Communist Censorship.

17.3.1.1 Cultural Isolation?

17.3.1.2 Editorial Censorship: Vigilance and Collusion

17.3.1.3 Productive Censorship

17.3.2 Textual Censorship

17.3.3 Censorship, Manipulation and Imagology

17.3.4 Censorship and Theatre Repertoire

17.3.5 The 'Distant Reading' Perspective

17.4 New Debates and Future Pathways

17.4.1 Revisiting (Post)-Communist Censorship

17.5 Conclusion

18 Censorship Under Communism in Socialist Slovenia

18.2 Historical Perspectives

18.2.1 The Second World War

18.2.2 The Socialist Federal Republic of Slovenia (1941991)

18.2.2.1 The Early Years of Total Control (19451952)

18.2.2.2 From 1952 to 1990

18.2.2.3 The Post-Socialist Period After 1991

18.3 Core Issues and Topics

18.4 New Debates

Part IV Democratic Capitalist Contexts

19 Censorship and Ideological Manipulation in Intralingual Literary Translation

19.1 Intralingual Translation: A Cultural, Historical and Political Endeavour

19.2 Core Issues and Methodology

19.2.1 Defining Intralingual Literary Translation

19.2.2 Examining Intralingual Censorship and Ideological Manipulation

19.3 Case Studies

19.3.1 Modernising Language in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

19.3.2 Rewriting Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Or, The Modern Prometheus for Young Readers

19.3.3 A US Version of a British Novel: Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass

19.4 Future Debates

20 Censorship and Language Policy: The Case of Canada and Québec

20.1 Definitions

20.2 Core Issues and Topics

20.2.1 Federal Versus Provincial Jurisdiction

20.2.2 Canada and Québec: Different Legal Traditions

20.2.3 Criminal Code of Canada

20.2.4 Canadian Definitions of Obscene Material

20.2.5 First Nations, Métis and Inuit.

20.2.6 Canada's and Québec's Young Publishing Industry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

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