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Self-Translation and Power Negotiating Identities in European Multilingual Contexts

This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications of self-translation in multilingual spaces in Europe. Engaging with the power turn in translation studies contexts, it offers innovative perspectives on the role of self-translators as cultural and ideological mediators...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Castro, Olga (Editor), Mainer, Sergi (Editor), Page, Svetlana (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Palgrave Macmillan 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Series:Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting
Subjects:
Comparative Literature
Language Translation
Language And Languages / Style
Intercultural Communication
Romance Languages
Translating And Interpreting
Europe / History
European History
Stylistics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Self-Translating, from Minorisation to Empowerment; Olga Castro, Sergi Mainer and Svetlana Page
  • I. Hegemony and Resistance
  • Chapter 2. Babel in (spite of) Belgium: Patterns of Self-Translation in a Bilingual Country; Rainier Grutman
  • Chapter 3. The Three Powers of Self-Translating or Not Self-Translating: The Case of Contemporary Occitan Literature (1950-1980); Christian Lagarde
  • Chapter 4. Self-Translation as Testimony: Halide Edib Rewrites The Turkish Ordeal; Mehtap Ozdemir
  • II. Self-Minorisation and Self-Censorship
  • Chapter 5. The Failure of Self-Translation in Catalan Literature; Josep Miquel Ramis
  • Chapter 6. The Power and Burden of Self-Translation: Representation of “Turkish Identity” in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul; Arzu Akbatur
  • Chapter 7. Self-Translation and Linguistic Reappropriation: Juan Gelman’s dibaxu;  Brandon Rigby
  • Chapter 8. Self-Translating between Minor and Major Languages: a Hospitable Approach in Bernardo Atxaga’s Obabakoak; Harriet Hulme
  • III. Collaboration, Hybridisation and Invisibility
  • Chapter 9.  – Collaborative Self-Translation in a Minority Language: Power Implications in the Process, the Actors and the Literary Systems Involved; Elizabete Manterola Agirrezabalaga
  • Chapter 10. Collaborative Self-Translation as a Catastrophe: The Case of Vadim Kozovoï in French; Julia Holter
  • Chapter 11. Beyond Self-Translation: Amara Lakhous and Translingual Writing as Case Study;  Rita Wilson
  • Chapter 12. Writing Beyond the Border: Max Frisch, Dialect and Place in Swiss-German Literature; Marc Cesar Rickenbach

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