Overview

This book focuses on women and translation in cultures 'across other horizons' well beyond the European or Anglo-American centres. Drawing on transnational feminist connections, its editors have assembled work from four continents and included articles from Morocco, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Turkey, China, Saudi Arabia, Columbia and beyond. Thirteen different chapters explore questions around women's roles in translation: as authors, or translators, or theoreticians. In doing so, they open new territories for studies in the area of 'gender and translation' and stimulate academic work on questions in this field around the world. The articles examine the impact of 'Western' feminism when translated to other cultures; they describe translation projects devised to import and make meaningful feminist texts from other places; they engage with the politics of publishing translations by women authors in other cultures, and the role of women translators play in developing new ideas. The diverse approaches to questions around women and translation developed in this collection speak to the volume of unexplored material that has yet to be addressed in this field.

Full Product Details

Author:   Luise von Flotow (University of Ottawa, Canada.) ,  Farzaneh Farahzad (Allahmeh Tabataba’i University, Iran)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367595937

ISBN 10:   0367595931
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   14 August 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Part I: The Role of Women Translators 1. Woman Translators in Contemporary Iran Farzaneh Farahzad 2. Negotiating Western and Muslim Feminine Identities through Translation: Western Female Converts Translating the Quran Rim Hassen Part II: Applying Feminism in Translation 3. Translational Beginnings and Origin/izing Stories: (Re)Writing the History of the Contemporary Feminist Movement in Turkey Emek Ergun 4. Translating into Democracy: The Politics of Translation, Our Bodies, Ourselves, and the ""Other Europe"" Anna Bogic 5. De-Feminizing Translation: To Make Women Visible in Japanese Translation Hiroko Furukawa 6. Translation with Fluctuating Feminist Intention: Letras y Encajes: A Colombian Women’s Magazine of the 1930s Maria Victoria Tipiani Lopera Part III: Translating Women Authors in Context 7. Three’s a Crowd: The Translator-Author-Publisher and the Engineering of Girls of Riyadh for an Anglophone Readership Marilyn Booth 8. The Travels of a Cuban Feminist Discourse: Ena Lucía Portela's Transgressive Writing Strategies in Translation. Arianne Des Rochers 9. Gender and the Chinese Context: The 1956 and 1999 Versions of Doris Lessing’s The Grass Is Singing Li Hongyu 10. Manipulating Simone de Beauvoir: A Study of Chinese Translations of The Second Sex Liu Haiping (Nicki) Part IV: Feminist Translation Projects 11. Voices from the Therīgāthā: Framing Western Feminisms in Sinhala Translation Kanchuka Dharmasiri 12. Meridiano 105°: An E-Anthology of Women Poets in Mexican and Canadian Indigenous Languages Claudia Lucotti and Maria Antonieta Rosas 13. The Translation of Islamic Feminism at CERFI in Morocco Bouchra Laghzali"

Reviews

The book's value lies in its effort at internationalising women and gender issues in/through translation beyond the North American and European contexts. A must-read for those interested in women as translators and women as translated across a variety of languages and cultures. -Jose Santaemilia, University of Valencia, Spain

""The book’s value lies in its effort at internationalising women and gender issues in/through translation beyond the North American and European contexts. A must-read for those interested in women as translators and women as translated across a variety of languages and cultures."" -José Santaemilia, University of Valencia, Spain

Author Information

Luise von Flotow has taught Translation Studies at the University of Ottawa since 1996. Her most recent publications include Translation Effects. The Shaping of Contemporary Canadian Culture 2014 (ed. with Kathy Mezei and Sherry Simon), and They Divided the Sky 2013, a re-translation from German of Christa Wolf's Der geteilte Himmel. Farzaneh Farahzad is Professor of Translation Studies at Allameh Tabataba'i University, Iran.

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