Nationum Origo

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
4. Introduction 1
5. PART I: TRANSLATION AS MEDIUM AND ACROSS MEDIA
6. The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals 15
7. Issues in the Translatability of Law 30
8. Simultaneous Interpretation: Language and Cultural Difference 51
9. A Touch of Translation: On Walter Benjamin’s “Task of the Translator” 65
10. The Languages of Cinema 79
11. PART II: THE ETHICS OF TRANSLATION
12. Translating into English 93
13. Tracking the “Native Informant”: Cultural Translation as the Horizon of Literary Translation 111
14. Levinas, Translation, and Ethics 127
15. Comparative Literature: The Delay in Translation 139
16. Translation as Community: The Opacity of Modernizations of Genji monogatari 146
17. Translation with No Original: Scandals of Textual Reproduction 159
18. PART III: TRANSLATION AND DIFFERENCE
19. Local Contingencies: Translation and National Identities 177
20. Nationum Origo 203
21. Metrical Translation: Nineteenth-Century Homers and the Hexameter Mania 229
22. Translating History 257
23. German Academic Exiles in Istanbul: Translation as the Bildung of the Other 274
24. DeLillo in Greece Eluding the Name 289
25. PART IV: BEYOND THE NATION
26. Translating Grief 315
27. “Synthetic Vision”: Internationalism and the Poetics of Decolonization 326
28. National Literature in Transnational Times: Writing Transition in the “New” South Africa 346
29. Postcolonial Latin America and the Magic Realist Imperative: A Report to an Academy 370
30. Death in Translation 380
31. CONTRIBUTORS 399
32. INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES 403