Translation and the cultural Cold War
Edited by Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam and Giles Scott-Smith
Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 15:3 (2020) v, 146 pp.
Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam
List of John Benjamins publications for which Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Interpreting | Translation Studies
Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A sociological study
Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam
[Benjamins Translation Library, 114] 2014. xix, 236 pp.
Subjects Sociology | Theoretical literature & literary studies | Translation Studies
Articles
2020. The cultural Cold War in the Middle East: William Faulkner and Franklin Book Programs. Translation and the cultural Cold War, Haddadian-Moghaddam, Esmaeil and Giles Scott-Smith (eds.), pp. 441–463
William Faulkner is an interesting case for the history of American cultural diplomacy. Although the State Department hailed him as a Cold War warrior, it had difficulty sponsoring his “modernist” novels in a book program that promoted American ideals during the Cold War. In this article I examine… read more | Article
2020. Translation and the cultural Cold War: An introduction. Translation and the cultural Cold War, Haddadian-Moghaddam, Esmaeil and Giles Scott-Smith (eds.), pp. 325–332
Introduction
2019. Chapter 7. The Persian tradition. A World Atlas of Translation, Gambier, Yves and Ubaldo Stecconi (eds.), pp. 149–168
From ancient Persia to modern Iran, translation has been consistently significant, which may be due to the geographical location of the political territory – placing it at the crossroads of many different languages and cultures throughout history. Despite its importance, however, translation… read more | Chapter
2014. Translation policy in the media: A study of television programs in the province of Kurdistan in Iran. Translation Spaces 3, pp. 71–98
Although Persian is the official language in Iran, legal provisions are available for the use of minority languages in the media. Recent scholarship describes ‘Persianization’ as the ‘building block’ of language policy, overlooking the use of minority languages in official media. This paper… read more | Article
2011. Agency in the translation and production of The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan into Persian. Target 23:2, pp. 206–234
There is increasing interest in the “sociology of translation”, agents of translation, and the agency of translators in Translation Studies. But more research is needed on actual people involved in the production, distribution, and reception of translation, and factors affecting these… read more | Article
2008. The Namesake in Persian: An on-line translation workshop. Babel 54:2, pp. 125–144
Translation and literary translation in particular, no longer can be seen as a static activity. In Austermühl’s words, the antiquated image of a lone translator, armed only with a pencil or typewriter and surrounded by dusty books, is no longer realistic. The translators are now learning to apply… read more | Article