Geography is not exactly a concept that has been used abundantly in translation studies, at least not explicitly. Translators encounter it
while translating place names, for instance, and it is included as an item in models designed to identify and analyze realia in
translation. A couple of publications have dealt with more complex conceptualizations of ‘place’ and translation, such as Kelly and Johnston (2007), where geo-political contexts and dislocated forms of translation play
a prominent role. Xu (2010) also very explicitly links translation and geography in a Chinese
book with extended English chapter summaries. Judging from those summaries as well as some reviews, Xu’s chapters on human geography,
political geography and postcolonial translation theories touch upon topics similar to those covered in Federico Italiano’s book. In both
cases, the authors study aspects of the interaction of translation with its (geographical) surroundings. The importance of geography as
shown in locative approaches is also thematized in a collection edited by Alvstad, Helgesson and
Watson (2011).
References
Alvstad, Cecilia, Stefan Helgesson, and David Watson
eds.2011Literature, Geography, Translation: Studies in World Writing. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Italiano, Federico
2012 “Translating Geographies: The Navigatio Sancti Brendani and Its Venetian
Translation.” Translation Studies 5 (1): 1–16.
Kelly, Stephen, and David Johnston
eds.2007Betwixt and Between: Place and Cultural Translation. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Moretti, Franco
1998Atlas of the European Novel, 1800–1900. London: Verso.
Simon, Sherry
2011Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory. Abingdon: Routledge.
Tyulenev, Sergey, and Binghan Zheng
eds.2017Toward Comparative Translation and Interpreting Studies. Special issue of Translation and Interpreting Studies 12 (2).
Venuti, Lawrence
2005 “Local Contingencies: Translation and National Identities.” In Nation, Language and the Ethics of Translation, edited by Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood, 177–202. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
