Chapter 1. Systems and the Boundaries of Agency: Translation as a Site of Opposition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Chapter 1. Systems and the Boundaries of Agency: Translation as a Site of Opposition 1
5. Part 1: Rewritings
6. Chapter 2. How Ibsen Travels from Europe to China: Ibsenism from Archer, Shaw to Hu Shi 39
7. Chapter 3. Rewriting, Culture Planning and Resistance in the Turkish Folk Tale 59
8. Chapter 4. Where Have All the Tyrants Gone? Romanticist Persians for Royals, Athens 1889 77
9. Chapter 5. Oppositional Effects: (Mis) Translating Empire in Modern Russian Literature 93
10. Chapter 6. The Translator’s Opposition: Just One More Act of Reporting 111
11. Part 2: Dispositions and Enunciations of Identity
12. Chapter 7. A Queer Glaswegian Voice 129
13. Chapter 8. Translating ‘the shadow class [. . .] condemned to movement’ and the Very Otherness of the Other: Latife Tekin as Author–Translator of Swords of Ice 146
14. Chapter 9. Translation and Opposition in Italian-Canadian Writing. Nino Ricci’s Trilogy and its Italian Translation 161
15. Chapter 10. Croker versus Montalembert on the Political Future of England: Towards a Theory of Antipathetic Translation 182
16. Chapter 11. Translation as a Means of Ideological Struggle 204
17. Chapter 12. ‘You say nothing; I will interpret’: Interpreting in the Auschwitz- Birkenau Concentration Camp 223
18. Part 3: Socio-cultural Gates and Gate-keeping
19. Chapter 13. Dialectics of Opposition and Construction: Translation in the Basque Country 247
20. Chapter 14. The Translation of Sexually Explicit Language: Almudena Grandes’ Las edades de Lulú (1989) in English 265
21. Chapter 15. Serbo-Croatian: Translating the Non-identical Twins 283
22. Chapter 16. Translation as a Threat to Fascism 295
23. Chapter 17. Censors and Censorship Boards in Franco’s Spain (1950s–1960s): An Overview Based on the TRACE Cinema Catalogue 305
24. Index 321