The Routledge handbook of translation and the city / edited by Tong King Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Tong-King, editor.

Series:

Routledge Handbooks in Translation and Interpreting Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Translations--History and criticism.

Literature.

Translating and interpreting--Social aspects.

Translating and interpreting.

Urbanization.

Intercultural communication.

Cities and towns.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (467 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City is the first multi-faceted and cross-disciplinary overview of how cities can be read through the lens of translation and how translation studies can be enriched by an understanding of the complex dynamics of the city. Divided into four sections, the chapters are authored by leading scholars in translation studies, sociolinguistics, and literary and cultural criticism. They cover contexts from Brussels to Singapore and Melbourne to Cairo and topics from translation as resistance to translanguaging and urban design. This volume explores the role of translation at critical junctures of a city's historical transformation as well as in the mundane intercultural moments of urban life, and uncovers the trope of the translational city in writing. This handbook is critical reading for researchers, scholars and advanced students in translation studies, linguistics and urban studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: thinking cities through translation

Part I Key issues

1 The translational city

2 Rewriting walls in the country you call home: space as a site for asymmetries

3 Cartography and translation: mapping and counter­mapping the city

4 Interartefactual translation: metrolingualism and resemiotization

5 Reclaiming urban spaces through translation: a practitioner's account

Part II The macrostructures of urban translation: policies and institutions

6 Language and translation policies in a bilingual city with a multilingual population: the case of Brussels

7 Translating in occupied towns during the First World War: between hegemonic policies and local practices

8 Urban translation and the 2020 Tokyo Games

9 Remediating lost memories of the city through translation: Istanbul as a space of remembering

10 Translation in global city Singapore: a holistic embrace in a multilingual milieu?

11 Imperial translational spaces and the politics of languages in Austria­Hungary: the case of Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv

12 Cities and desires: translating Seoul

13 Translation and controversial monuments in Tallinn

Part III Counter­writing cities: translation as praxis

14 Translation as translanguaging: acts of distinction in multilingual karate clubs in London

15 Cape Town as a multilingual city: policies, experiences and ideologies

16 Translation and the struggle for urban symbolic capital in Cairo

17 Translation and trans­scripting: languaging practices in the city of Aθens

18 Counter­mapping the city in Dakar: a de­authorized translation

19 Migration, hip hop and translation zones in Delhi.

20 Translation and translanguaging in artistic performances in Hong Kong

Part IV Cities in writing, translation as trope

21 Sites of translation in Melbourne

22 La flâneuse montréalaise translates

23 Phantom translation in New Orleans

24 Translation interrupted: memorial dissonance in Trieste

25 Autophagy as translation

26 Depicting a translational and transcultural city: Lagos in Nigerian writing

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-79103-8

0-429-43646-7

0-429-79104-6

9780429436468

OCLC:

1249472471