Transmesis

Inside Translation¿s Black Box
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-349-43351-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 361 g

This study compares modern and contemporary literary works from around the globe that have translation as a central theme, and that treat one of four of said black-box issues: language as embodiment; unknown language; conversion; and postcolonial derivations.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beebee, Thomas O.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Transmesis and Postcolonial Reason PART I: SOMATICS Herizons of Translation: Nicole Brossard Shoot The Transtraitor! The Translator as Homo Sacer PART IIl CONVERSION Borges Translating Ibn Rushd Translating Aristotle Translation as Cultural Renewal in the Cartas Marruecas Milorad Pavic's Dictionary of the Khazars PART III: POSTCOLONIAL DERIVATIONS Abdelkébir Khatibi's Love in Two Languages Faking Translation: Derivative Aboriginality in the Fiction of B. Wongar PART IV: UNKNOWN LANGUAGE Unknown Language and Radical Translation Transformulating Pagolak Translating Ptydepe Ten Reasons Why Translators Should Read Fiction

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas O. Beebee is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and German at Penn State University.