Textual and Contextual Voices of Translation

Editors

Cecilia Alvstad

Annjo K. Greenall

Hanne Jansen

Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov

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The notion of voice has been used in a number of ways within Translation Studies. Against the backdrop of these different uses, this book looks at the voices of translators, authors, publishers, editors and readers both in the translations themselves and in the texts that surround these translations. The various authors go on a hunt for translational agents’ voice imprints in a variety of textual and contextual material, such as literary and non-literary translations, book reviews, newspaper articles, academic texts and e-mails. While all stick to the principle of studying text and context together, the different contributions also demonstrate how specific textual and contextual circumstances require adapted methodological solutions, ending up in a collection that takes steps in a joint direction but that is at the same time complex and pluralistic.
The book is intended for scholars and students of Translation Studies, Comparative Literature, and other disciplines within Language and Literature.

[Benjamins Translation Library, 137] 2017. vi, 268 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 2 October 2017

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.137

Table of Contents

Part I. Opening the field

Introduction: Textual and contextual voices of translation

Cecilia Alvstad, Annjo K. Greenall, Hanne Jansen and Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov | pp. 3–17

Part II. Charting the field

The Scandinavian singer-translator’s multisemiotic voice as performance

Annjo K. Greenall | pp. 21–37

Translators, editors, publishers, and critics: Multiple translatorship in the public sphere

Kristina Solum | pp. 39–60

The making of a bestseller-in-translation: Cecilia Samartin as the voice of Cuba

Idun Heir Senstad | pp. 61–79

Contextual factors when reading a translated academic text: The effect of paratextual voices and academic background

Kristiina Taivalkoski-Shilov and Maarit Koponen | pp. 81–99

When poets translate poetry: Authorship, ownership, and translatorship

Christian Refsum | pp. 101–117

Translators in search of originals

Susan Bassnett | pp. 119–129

Part III. Traveling the field

Unraveling multiple translatorship through an e-mail correspondence: Who is having a say?

Hanne Jansen | pp. 133–157

Silenced in translation: The voice of Manolito Gafotas

Jeroen Vandaele | pp. 159–180

The voice of the implied author in the first Norwegian translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe

Ida Hove Solberg | pp. 181–199

Three voices or one? On reviews of the Scandinavian translations of Nadine Gordimer’s Get a Life

Christina Gullin | pp. 201–221

The voices of Cieza de León in English: Notes on el nefando pecado de la sodomía in translation and in US academia

Roberto A. Valdeón | pp. 223–240

References | pp. 241–262

Index | pp. 263–268

“Translation Studies is often said to be fragmenting as it evolves into ever more specialized fields; but there are also occasional signs of an opposite movement, and that is what we see in this rich volume. Here, “voice” is given a superordinate interpretation that connects its textual, stylistic sense to its contextual, agentive one. The result shows that such an integrative interpretation can be extremely productive, leading to analytical insights and some promising conceptual innovation. The book also has a distinctive (mainly) Nordic voice of its own: bravo!”

Andrew Chesterman, University of Helsinki

“The invisibility of the translator has in the last years been extensively scrutinized. With this book the wide range of voices involved in the long translation process from acquisition to publication are finally included in a comprehensive study. Never before have all the agents, and all the steps of translating a text been studied so thoroughly. This timely and groundbreaking work represents an important step towards a better comprehension of what stays behind any translation.”

Siri Nergaard, University of Florence & University College of Southeast Norway

“This volume represents an important contribution to the field of translation and literary studies with its systematic treatment of prominent questions of voice and multiple translatorship. A significant theoretical advance is achieved by the investigation of voice from multiple perspectives: the differentiation between textual and contextual voice and the identification of different agents/actors behind these voices.”

Jeremy Munday, University of Leeds

“I recommend this book to scholars, translators and students who work in the field of Translation and Translation Studies. Although the book is framed in a Scandinavian setting, it has opened up a new area of studies that might be essential to researchers who conduct research in their own local context. The issue of ‘textual and contextual voices’ discussed in the book not only informs the author, publisher, editor, critics and all other agents involved in the production of the translation about their responsibilities and impacts on the final translation but also raises the awareness of the intense collaboration between researchers and practitioners.”

John Qiong Wang, Jinan University, in Babel 64:4 (2018)

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