Translating Holocaust Lives (Bloomsbury Advances in Translation) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1350079855 ISBN 13: 9781350079854

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

Synopsis

For readers in the English-speaking world, almost all Holocaust writing is translated writing. Translation is indispensable for our understanding of the Holocaust because there is a need to tell others what happened in a way that makes events and experiences accessible – if not, perhaps, comprehensible – to other communities.

Yet what this means is only beginning to be explored by Translation Studies scholars. This book aims to bring together the insights of Translation Studies and Holocaust Studies in order to show what a critical understanding of translation in practice and context can contribute to our knowledge of the legacy of the Holocaust.

The role translation plays is not just as a facilitator of a semi-transparent transfer of information. Holocaust writing involves questions about language, truth and ethics, and a theoretically informed understanding of translation adds to these questions by drawing attention to processes of mediation and reception in cultural and historical context. It is important to examine how writing by Holocaust victims, which is closely tied to a specific language and reflects on the relationship between language, experience and thought, can (or cannot) be translated.

This volume brings the disciplines of Holocaust and Translation Studies into an encounter with each other in order to explore the effects of translation on Holocaust writing. The individual pieces by Holocaust scholars explore general, theoretical questions and individual case studies, and are accompanied by commentaries by translation scholars.

About this title

About the Author:

Jean Boase-Beier, Professor, School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, UK
Peter Davies, Professor in Division of European Languages and Cultures, University of Edinburgh, UK
Andrea Hammel, Department of Modern Languages, Aberystwyth University, UK
Marion Winters, Department of Language and Intercultural Studies, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Review:

“Translating Holocaust Lives inaugurates an important conversation between translation studies and Holocaust studies, and one hopes it will inspire further engagement between these interdisciplinary fields.” – CHOICE

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1350079855
• ISBN 13: 9781350079854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264
• Editor: Boase-Beier Jean, Davies Peter, Hammel Andrea, Winters Marion