Towards an atlas of the history of interpreting : voices from around the world / edited by Lucía Ruiz Rosendo [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ruiz Rosendo, Lucía, editor.

Series:

Benjamins Translation Library

Benjamins Translation Library ; v.159

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Atlases--History.

Atlases.

Cartography--History.

Cartography.

Cartographers.

Geographers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

Summary:

This book engages in the historical analysis of interpreters (of both language and cultures) in multiple interpreting settings and places, including in zones which are less frequently studied in specialized literature, in different historical periods and at various scales.

Contents:

Intro

Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Chapter 1. Voices from around the world

Background

A few comments about the title

Structure and content

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 2. Indigenous interpreters on trial in the Spanish Empire

Interpreters and justice in the Spanish Empire: A brief historical overview

Hernando Uz: A Maya nobleman who became the governor of Yucatán's interpreter

Expectations, trust, and fidelity ties in the framing of the interpreter's space

The criminalization of the interpreter's political influence

Final comments

Chapter 3. Interpreters of Mapudungun and the Chilean State during the 1880-1930 period

The Spanish-Mapudungun socio-linguistic landscape: From the colonial period to the 19th century

19th-century interpreters: Between Mapuche society and the state

Pivotal interpreters: The transition from Colony to Republic

Interpreters in territorial occupation and the establishment of the Republican state

The Burgos family

The Colipi family

Resistance, collaboration, autonomization: Literates and pettifoggers

Concluding remarks

Chapter 4. An overview of the role of interpreters during the Portuguese expansion through Africa (1415-1600)

Introduction

The mediators of the Portuguese expansion through Morocco

Spies and captives

Alfaqueques

Official interpreters

Mediators in the "Castilian zone"

Mediation in Sub-Saharan Western Africa

The interpreters of Guinea

Slave-interpreters

Lançados

"Institutional" interpreters

Situations and areas requiring interpreters

Interpreters' compensation

Interpreters in the Kongo: A special case.

Interpreters with training and prestige

Interpreters for sacramental confessions

The end of a communication paradigm

Communication with Angola

Mediation in Eastern Africa

Slave-interpreters and lançados

Muslim merchants

Conclusion

Primary Sources

Secondary sources

Chapter 5. Mediating a complex cultural matrix

French colonialism, Muslim interpreters, and the Senegal River Valley in the mid-1800s

Retrieving African voices: The "Colonial Library" and beyond

Muslim interpreters as mediators and historians as knowledge producers

Chapter 6. Interpreting with "human sympathy"

Historical overview: Interpreting and translation by Western missionaries in Japan

From Jesuits' arrival to their expulsion (1549-1639)

From the reopening of Japan to the outbreak of the Pacific War (1854-1941)

The Pacific War and the occupation of Japan

In preparation for war

Repatriated missionaries and children of missionaries

Return to Japan as occupation forces

Discussion

Chapter 7. The colonized in conflict

Six Taiwanese full-time interpreters recruited in Taiwan for military campaigns

Four Taiwanese locally hired ad hoc interpreters

Two Taiwanese full-time interpreters hired overseas

Six Taiwanese full-time interpreters from group recruitment in Taiwan

Age and education

Timing

Spatial distribution

Documents at the National Archives, Kew, United Kingdom

Trial records of the cases against Taiwanese interpreters

Chapter 8. Interpreters of mission

Interpreting and translating in the Pacific and Australian mission historiography

Country and interpreting at three North Australian missions

References.

Chapter 9. Domesticating dragomans

Dragomans and diplomacy in early modern Istanbul

Rival dynasties

Profession, family, household

Controlled publicity

Official version(ing)

Works cited

Archival series consulted

Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Venice

Printed works

Chapter 10. The interpreter as "anti-hero"

Memoirs of interpreters: A new research field?

Genre questions and definitions

Main features of (hero) interpreters' memoirs

The "dynamic processes of autobiographical subjectivity"

The fields of exploring the anti-hero in interpreters' memoirs

The anti-hero under scrutiny: Analysing the interpreters' self‑representation

Memory

Experience

Space

Agency

Primary sources

Chapter 11. When the armies went back home

The supranational space

Interpreting and multilateral NATO operations

Interpreting and the national space

Ex-interpreters and the politics of immigration

Conclusions

Chapter 12Conclusion

Final remarks: On change

Coda

Biographical notes

Place index

Name index

Language index

Subject index

Image index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Ruiz Rosendo, Lucía Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting

ISBN:

9789027254054

9027254052

OCLC:

1369674724