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Jünke, Claudia and Désirée Schyns, eds. 2023. Translating Memories of Violent Pasts: memory studies and translation studies in dialogue (Creative, Social and Transnational Perspectives on Translation). London and New York: Routledge. 262 pp. URL
Publication type
Edited volume
Publication language
English
Main ISBN
9780367711764
Edition info
ISBN hardback: 9780367711764 ISBN eBook: 9781003149651

Abstract

This collection brings together work from Memory Studies and Translation Studies to explore the role of interlingual and intercultural translation for unpacking transcultural memory dynamics, focusing on memories of violent pasts across different literary genres. The book explores the potential of a research agenda that links narrower definitions of translation with broader notions of transfer, transmission, and relocation across temporal and cultural borders, investigating the nuanced theoretical and conceptual dimensions at the intersection of memory and translation. It explores memories of violent pasts – legacies of war, genocide, dictatorship, and exile across different genres and media, including testimony, autobiography, novels, and graphic novels. The collection engages in central questions at the interface of Memory Studies and Translation Studies, including whether traumatic historical experiences that resist representation can be translated, what happens when texts that negotiate such memories are translated into other languages and cultures, and what role translation strategies, translators, and agents of translations play in memory across borders.
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