Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Beebee, Thomas O

Titel

Transmesis: Inside Translation’s Black Box

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

New York: Palgrave Macmillan

Erscheinungsjahr

2012

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 01 02 The concept of transmesis refers to the depiction of translation and translators within fictional texts. The term's metaphorical conjunction of mimesis with translation suggests both the mimetic treatment of items in the black box, i.e. of those aspects of translation that translations as 'finished' products conceal, and also the question of how to represent language and multilingual realities in literature. Thomas O. Beebee examines and compares examples of transmesis across a wide variety of languages, cultures, and historical periods. 19 02 FIRST: The first full-length, comparative study of fiction where translators appear as characters and/or translations play a major role. INTERDISCIPLINARY: This book will be of interest to scholars of comparative literature, translation studies, and postcolonial studies. GREAT AUTHOR: Thomas O. Beebee is a senior scholar and has published several books and translations, and the reviewer wrote that this would be a "major contribution to translation studies". 13 02 Thomas O. Beebee is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and German at the Pennsylvania State University. His publications include: Clarissa on the Continent ( 1991); The Ideology Of Genre (1994); Epistolary Fiction in Europe (1999); Millennial Literatures of the Americas , 1492 – 2002 (2008); Nation and Region in Modern European and American Fiction (2008); and Conjunctions and Disjunctions of German Law and Literature (2011). 02 02 This study compares modern and contemporary literary works from around the globe that have translation as a central theme, and that treat one of four of said black-box issues: language as embodiment; unknown language; conversion; and postcolonial derivations. 31 02 The first full-length, comparative study of fiction where translators appear as characters and/or translations play a major role 04 02 Transmesis and Postcolonial Reason PART I: SOMATICS Herizons of Translation: Nicole Brossard Shoot The Transtraitor! The Translator as Homo Sacer PART IIl CONVERSION Borges Translating Ibn Rushd Translating Aristotle Translation as Cultural Renewal in the Cartas Marruecas Milorad Pavi?'s Dictionary of the Khazars PART III: POSTCOLONIAL DERIVATIONS Abdelkébir Khatibi's Love in Two Languages Faking Translation: Derivative Aboriginality in the Fiction of B. Wongar PART IV: UNKNOWN LANGUAGE Unknown Language and Radical Translation Transformulating Pagolak Translating Ptydepe Ten Reasons Why Translators Should Read Fiction