Category: Publications

Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages Edited by Kathryn Batchelor, Sue-Ann Harding © 2017 – Routledge 258 pages   Description This book provides an innovative look at the reception of Frantz Fanon’s texts, investigating how, when, where and why these—especially his seminal Les Damnés de la Terre (1961) —were first translated and read. Building on renewed interest in the author’s works in both postcolonial studies […]

Non-Professional Subtitling Editor(s):David Orrego-Carmona, Yvonne Lee   Subject: Cultural Studies   Book Description From fansubbing, fan-generated translation, to user-generated translation, from amateur translation to social translation, non-professional subtitling has come a long way since its humble beginning in the 1980s. The prevailing technological affordance enables and mobilises the digital generation to turn subtitling into a method of self-expression and mediation, and […]

Queering Translation, Translating the Queer Theory, Practice, Activism Edited by Brian James Baer, Klaus Kaindl © 2018 – Routledge 234 pages | 10 Color Illus. | 7 B/W Illus.   Description This groundbreaking work is the first full book-length publication to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents a variety of theoretical and disciplinary […]

Perspectives on translation studies in Africa       https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/3350/1/Perspectives%20on%20translation%20%20studies%20in%20Africa.pdf

Translating for the Community Edited by: Mustapha Taibi Format: Paperback – 208 pages Related Formats: Hardback PDF EPUB ISBN: 9781783099122 Published: 30 Nov 2017 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Dimensions: 234 x 156 Availability: Forthcoming   http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?isb=9781783099122

Queering Translation, Translating the Queer Theory, Practice, Activism Edited by Brian James Baer, Klaus Kaindl © 2018 – Routledge 234 pages | 10 Color Illus. | 7 B/W Illus.               Description This groundbreaking work is the first full book-length publication to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents […]

Untranslatability Goes Global Edited by Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan © 2018 – Routledge 146 pages   Description This collection brings together contributions from translation theorists, linguists, and literary scholars to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about untranslatability and its implications within the context of globalization. The chapters depart from the pragmatics of translation practice and move on to consider the role of the translator’s voice […]

Palgrave Studies in Translating and Interpreting Free Preview © 2017 Self-Translation and Power Negotiating Identities in European Multilingual Contexts Editors: Castro, Olga, Mainer, Sergi, Page, Svetlana (Eds.) Analyses the role of self-translation by placing an emphasis on powerExamines self-translation within the multilingual European context Focuses on interactions between minority and majority European languages This book investigates the political, social, cultural and economic implications […]

Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings A Corpus-based Interdisciplinary Perspective Edited by Stanislaw Goźdź-Roszkowski, Gianluca Pontrandolfo © 2018 – Routledge 280 pages | 43 B/W Illus.   Description This volume presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of major developments in the study of how phraseology is used in a wide range of different legal and institutional contexts. This recent interest has been mainly sparked by […]