Key Cultural Texts in Translation

Editors

Kirsten Malmkjær

| The University of Leicester

Adriana Şerban

| Paul Valéry University - Montpellier 3

Fransiska Louwagie

| The University of Leicester

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In the context of increased movement across borders, this book examines how key cultural texts and concepts are transferred between nations and languages as well as across different media. The texts examined in this book are considered fundamental to their source culture and can also take on a particular relevance to other (target) cultures. The chapters investigate cultural transfers and differences realised through translation and reflect critically upon the implications of these with regard to matters of cultural identity. The book offers an important contribution to cultural approaches in translation studies, with ramifications across different disciplines, including literary studies, history, philosophy, and gender studies. The chapters offer a range of cultural and methodological frameworks and are written by scholars from a variety of language and cultural backgrounds, Western and Eastern.

[Benjamins Translation Library, 140] 2018. xiv, 320 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.140

Table of Contents

About the contributors	xi–xiv
Introduction: Key Cultural Texts in translation	1–6
Part I. Gender and identity	10–34
Chapter 1. Genos, sex, gender and genre Stella Sandford	9–24
Chapter 2. Dancing through the waves of feminism: Martha Graham and Marie Chouinard as intersemiotic translators Ourania Tsiakalou	25–34
Part II. Texts and politics	38–92
Chapter 3. Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Breve Relación de la Destrucción de Las Indias (Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies) (1552) in translation: The politics of linguistic and cultural appropriation Helen Rawlings	37–52
Chapter 4. Have English translations of Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, an icon of German culture, been affected by the changing relationship between Germany and Britain in the twentieth century? Karen Wilson-deRoze	53–78
Chapter 5. Communicating change: Two contemporary Polish novels in translation into English Marta Crickmar	79–92
Part III. Texts and places	96–150
Chapter 6. Lithuanian literature in English: Two English translations of Romualdas Granauskas’s short story “The Bread Eaters” (1975) Jurgita Vaičenonienė	95–114
Chapter 7. Woest of wild: Translating Yorkshire culture in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights Myrte Wouterse and Samantha Genegel	115–130
Chapter 8. Polish dance in Eugene Onegin: What can be found in translation Anna Ponomareva	131–150
Part IV. Occident and Orient	154–218
Chapter 9. The image of H. C. Andersen’s tales in China (1909–1925): A case study of a set of Key Cultural Texts in translation Wenjie Li	153–170
Chapter 10. The cultural transformation of classical Chinese poetry in translation into English Kelly Kar Yue Chan	171–184
Chapter 11. The immigration of key cultural icons: A case study of church name translation in Macao Hanting Pan	185–202
Chapter 12. Reproduction and reception of the concepts of Confucianism, Buddhism and polygamy: Kuunmong in translation Jinsil Choi	203–218
Part V. Translating philosophy	219–254
Chapter 13. Hegel’s Phenomenology: A comparative analysis of translatorial hexis David Charlston	221–234
Chapter 14. Adorno refracted: German critical theory in the neoliberal world order Stefan Baumgarten	235–254
Part VI. Text types	258–314
Chapter 15. Construction of a cultural narrative through translation: Texts on Sibelius and his works as Key Cultural Texts Turo Rautaoja	257–274
Chapter 16. Cultural satirical features in translation: The Pessoptimist as a case study Muhammad J.H. Abdullatief	275–298
Chapter 17. Alterity, orality and performance in Bible translation Jacobus A. Naudé and Cynthia L. Miller-Naudé	299–314
Index of concepts	315–318
Index of names	319–320

“With innovative studies by scholars from various language and cultural backgrounds, this book is a well-edited and thought-provoking volume on key cultural texts and concepts in translation. It represents a diverse range of studies on cultural transfers through translation, and will be beneficial to translation scholars and students who have interest in conducting further research in this aspect.”

Chen Xi, Macau University of Science and Technology, in Babel 65:1 (2019)

“The book is a welcome contribution to the topic of KCT in translation studies. By scrutinizing translations of KCTs from a multidisciplinary perspective based on case studies and critical reflections in broad cultural and historical contexts, the book is a valuable resource and should appeal to anyone with an interest in translation studies and cultural diversity who is seeking deeper insights into these areas.”

Birong Huang, Wenzhou University, in Target 31:2 (2019)

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Subjects

Literature & Literary Studies

Theoretical literature & literary studies

Translation & Interpreting Studies

Translation Studies

BIC Subject: CFP – Translation & interpretation

BISAC Subject: LAN023000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2017057752