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Author:   Tong King Lee (University of Hong Kong, China)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   1.020kg
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9781138348875

ISBN 10:   1138348872
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   28 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures and tables List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Thinking cities through translation Part I Key Issues The translational city Rewriting walls in the country you call home: Space as a site for asymmetries Cartography and translation: Mapping and counter-mapping the city Interartefactual translation: Metrolingualism and resemiotization Reclaiming urban spaces through translation: A practitioner’s account Part II The macrostructures of urban translation: Policies and institutions Language and translation policies in a bilingual city with a multilingual population: The case of Brussels Translating in occupied towns during the First World War: Between hegemonic policies and local practices Urban translation and the 2020 Tokyo Games Remediating lost memories of the city through translation: Istanbul as a space of remembering Translation in global city Singapore: A holistic embrace in a multilingual milieu? Imperial translational spaces and the politics of languages in Austria-Hungary: The case of Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv Cities and desires: Translating Seoul Translation and controversial monuments in Tallinn Part III Counter-writing cities: Translation as praxis Translation as translanguaging: Acts of distinction in multilingual karate clubs in London Cape Town as a multilingual city: Policies, experiences and ideologies Translation and the struggle for urban symbolic capital in Cairo Translation and trans-scripting: Languaging practices in the city of Athens Countermapping the city in Dakar: A de-authorized translation Migration, hip hop and translation zones in Delhi Translation and translanguaging in artistic performances in Hong Kong Part IV Cities in writing, translation as trope Sites of translation in Melbourne La flâneuse montréalaise translates Phantom translation in New Orleans Translation interrupted: Memorial dissonance in Trieste Autophagy as translation Depicting a translational and transcultural city: Lagos in Nigerian writing Index

Reviews

'The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City offers an impressive range of methodological perspectives and case studies on the relationship between translation and urban spaces. This truly transnational and transdisciplinary collection gives the reader multiple keys to unlock the superdiverse linguistic reality of life in today's cities. Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook University, USA

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City offers an impressive range of methodological perspectives and case studies on the relationship between translation and urban spaces. This truly transnational and transdisciplinary collection gives the reader multiple keys to unlock the superdiverse linguistic reality of life in today's cities. Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook University, USA

'The Routledge Handbook of Translation and the City offers an impressive range of methodological perspectives and case studies on the relationship between translation and urban spaces. This truly transnational and transdisciplinary collection gives the reader multiple keys to unlock the superdiverse linguistic reality of life in today's cities. Loredana Polezzi, Stony Brook University, USA

Author Information

Tong King Lee is Associate Professor of Translation at the University of Hong Kong.

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