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Translators, editors, publishers, and critics

Multiple translatorship in the public sphere
  • Kristina Solum
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Textual and Contextual Voices of Translation
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Abstract

This chapter examines three recent Norwegian debates on translation sparked off by translation reviews, in which the various agents involved in producing translated texts were granted unusual visibility. The case reflects how discussions on translators’ agency may be of interest for the public sphere in three senses: in disputing unfair judgments on translations, in discussing the quality criteria of translations, and in gatekeeping when the publishers’ quality control mechanisms have fallen short.

Abstract

This chapter examines three recent Norwegian debates on translation sparked off by translation reviews, in which the various agents involved in producing translated texts were granted unusual visibility. The case reflects how discussions on translators’ agency may be of interest for the public sphere in three senses: in disputing unfair judgments on translations, in discussing the quality criteria of translations, and in gatekeeping when the publishers’ quality control mechanisms have fallen short.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Part I. Opening the field
  4. Introduction 3
  5. Part II. Charting the field
  6. The Scandinavian singer-translator’s multisemiotic voice as performance 21
  7. Translators, editors, publishers, and critics 39
  8. The making of a bestseller-in-translation 61
  9. Contextual factors when reading a translated academic text 81
  10. When poets translate poetry 101
  11. Translators in search of originals 119
  12. Part III. Traveling the field
  13. Unraveling multiple translatorship through an e-mail correspondence 133
  14. Silenced in translation 159
  15. The voice of the implied author in the first Norwegian translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe 181
  16. Three voices or one? 201
  17. The voices of Cieza de León in English 223
  18. References 241
  19. Index 263
https://doi.org/10.1075/btl.137.03sol

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Part I. Opening the field
  4. Introduction 3
  5. Part II. Charting the field
  6. The Scandinavian singer-translator’s multisemiotic voice as performance 21
  7. Translators, editors, publishers, and critics 39
  8. The making of a bestseller-in-translation 61
  9. Contextual factors when reading a translated academic text 81
  10. When poets translate poetry 101
  11. Translators in search of originals 119
  12. Part III. Traveling the field
  13. Unraveling multiple translatorship through an e-mail correspondence 133
  14. Silenced in translation 159
  15. The voice of the implied author in the first Norwegian translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe 181
  16. Three voices or one? 201
  17. The voices of Cieza de León in English 223
  18. References 241
  19. Index 263
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