Overview
- Illustrates the importance of context and politics in the translation process
- Widens the scope of current scholarship to include perspectives from literature, literary criticism, intellectual history, gender studies, and cultural studies
- Includes a range of diverse contexts from the translation of the Hebrew Bible to contemporary Peru
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This book analyzes the impact of historical, political and sociocultural contexts on the reading, rewriting and translating of texts. The authors base their arguments on their experiences of translating or researching different text types, taking in fiction, short stories, memoirs, religious texts, scientific treatises, and news reports from a variety of different languages and cultural traditions. In doing so they cover a wide range of contexts and time periods, including Early Modern Europe, post-1848 Switzerland, nineteenth-century Portugal, Egypt in the early twentieth century under British colonial rule, Spain under Franco’s dictatorship, and contemporary Peru and China. They also consider the theoretical and pedagogical implications of their conclusions for translation students and practitioners. This edited collection will be of great interest to scholars working in translation studies, applied linguistics, and on issues of cultural difference.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Mohammed Albakry is Professor of English and Applied Linguistics and Affiliate Faculty in the Literacy Studies Ph.D. Program at Middle Tennessee State University, USA. He has authored numerous refereed articles and co-edited the drama anthology Tahir Tales: Plays from the Egyptian Revolution (2016). He is also a practicing translator and was awarded a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Translation and the Intersection of Texts, Contexts and Politics
Book Subtitle: Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspectives
Editors: Mohammed Albakry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53748-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-53747-4Published: 09 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85234-8Published: 13 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-53748-1Published: 27 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 227
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Translation, Multilingualism, Language Policy and Planning, Globalization, Sociolinguistics