Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation

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Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation

Edited by: Sandra Bermann and Michael Wood

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2005

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In recent years, scholarship on translation has moved well beyond the technicalities of converting one language into another and beyond conventional translation theory. With new technologies blurring distinctions between "the original" and its reproductions, and with globalization redefining national and cultural boundaries, "translation" is now emerging as a reformulated subject of lively, interdisciplinary debate. Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation enters the heart of this debate. It covers an exceptional range of topics, from simultaneous translation to legal theory, from the language of exile to the language of new nations, from the press to the cinema; and cultures and languages from contemporary Bengal to ancient Japan, from translations of Homer to the work of Don DeLillo.

All twenty-two essays, by leading voices including Gayatri Spivak and the late Edward Said, are provocative and persuasive. The book's four sections--"Translation as Medium and across Media," "The Ethics of Translation," "Translation and Difference," and "Beyond the Nation"--together provide a comprehensive view of current thinking on nationality and translation, one that will be widely consulted for years to come.

The contributors are Jonathan E. Abel, Emily Apter, Sandra Bermann, Vilashini Cooppan, Stanley Corngold, David Damrosch, Robert Eaglestone, Stathis Gourgouris, Pierre Legrand, Jacques Lezra, Françoise Lionnet, Sylvia Molloy, Yopie Prins, Edward Said, Azade Seyhan, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Henry Staten, Lawrence Venuti, Lynn Visson, Gauri Viswanathan, Samuel Weber, and Michael Wood.

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Sandra Bermann is Professor and Department Chair of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is the author of Sonnet over Time: A Study in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Baudelaire, and her translation of Allesandro Manzoni's Del romanzo storico appeared as On the Historical Novel. Michael Wood is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. He is the author of The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction (Princeton) and other books on literature and film.

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"Sure to become required reading for students and scholars of the subject, . . . this new volume presents a well-balanced view of the current state of the profession and contains an unusually large percentage of essays (fully half) that can be considered significant contributions to the field."---Susan Bernofsky, Modern Language Notes

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CONTENTS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Introduction
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Sandra Bermann

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PART I: TRANSLATION AS MEDIUM AND ACROSS MEDIA
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The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals
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Edward Said

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Issues in the Translatability of Law
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Pierre Legrand

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Simultaneous Interpretation: Language and Cultural Difference
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Lynn Visson

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A Touch of Translation: On Walter Benjamin’s “Task of the Translator”
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Samuel Weber

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The Languages of Cinema
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Michael Wood

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PART II: THE ETHICS OF TRANSLATION
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Translating into English
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

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Tracking the “Native Informant”: Cultural Translation as the Horizon of Literary Translation
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Henry Staten

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Levinas, Translation, and Ethics
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Robert Eaglestone

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Comparative Literature: The Delay in Translation
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Stanley Corngold

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Translation as Community: The Opacity of Modernizations of Genji monogatari
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Jonathan E. Abel

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Translation with No Original: Scandals of Textual Reproduction
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Emily Apter

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PART III: TRANSLATION AND DIFFERENCE
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Local Contingencies: Translation and National Identities
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Lawrence Venuti

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Nationum Origo
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Jacques Lezra

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Metrical Translation: Nineteenth-Century Homers and the Hexameter Mania
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Yopie Prins

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Translating History
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Sandra Bermann

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German Academic Exiles in Istanbul: Translation as the Bildung of the Other
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Azade Seyhan

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DeLillo in Greece Eluding the Name
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Stathis Gourgouris

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PART IV: BEYOND THE NATION
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Translating Grief
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Françoise Lionnet

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“Synthetic Vision”: Internationalism and the Poetics of Decolonization
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National Literature in Transnational Times: Writing Transition in the “New” South Africa
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Vilashini Cooppan

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Postcolonial Latin America and the Magic Realist Imperative: A Report to an Academy
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Sylvia Molloy

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Death in Translation
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David Damrosch

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CONTRIBUTORS
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INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES
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Keywords for this book

Literature; Writing; Jacques Derrida; Comparative literature; Poetry; Colonialism; Narrative; Modernity; Thought; Understanding; National identity; World literature; Alterity; Walter Benjamin; Routledge; Politics; Publication; Princeton University Press; Philosophy; Theory; Ideology; Prose; Rhetoric; Writer; Translation; Subjectivity; Latin America; Cosmopolitanism; Awareness; Grammar; Language interpretation; The Other Hand; Criticism; Untranslatability; Post-structuralism; Lecture; Author; Imperialism; Postcolonialism; Edward Said; Cultural translation; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Translation studies; National language; Magic realism; Jews; Originality; Postmodernism; Nation state; Critique; Eurocentrism; Allegory; Preface; Of Education; Neologism; Romanticism; Cultural studies; Dialectic; Dictionary of the Khazars; Negotiation; Philosopher; Photography; Prejudice; Allusion; Essay; Synecdoche; Pedagogy; Lawrence Venuti; Literary criticism; Public sphere

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation

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About this book

Author / Editor information

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

The Public Role of Writers and Intellectuals

Issues in the Translatability of Law

Simultaneous Interpretation: Language and Cultural Difference

A Touch of Translation: On Walter Benjamin’s “Task of the Translator”

The Languages of Cinema

Translating into English

Tracking the “Native Informant”: Cultural Translation as the Horizon of Literary Translation

Levinas, Translation, and Ethics

Comparative Literature: The Delay in Translation

Translation as Community: The Opacity of Modernizations of Genji monogatari

Translation with No Original: Scandals of Textual Reproduction

Local Contingencies: Translation and National Identities

Nationum Origo

Metrical Translation: Nineteenth-Century Homers and the Hexameter Mania

Translating History

German Academic Exiles in Istanbul: Translation as the Bildung of the Other

DeLillo in Greece Eluding the Name

Translating Grief

“Synthetic Vision”: Internationalism and the Poetics of Decolonization

National Literature in Transnational Times: Writing Transition in the “New” South Africa

Postcolonial Latin America and the Magic Realist Imperative: A Report to an Academy

Death in Translation

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX OF NAMES AND TITLES

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