Translating National Allegories

Alistair Rolls is Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia, where he publishes on crime fiction and twentieth-century literature. John West-Sooby is Professor of French Studies at the University of Adelaide, Australia. His interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, and the history of early French exploration of Australia. Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan is Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia; her expertise lies in both the practice and theory of translation, especially as these pertain to crime fiction in France.

• Introduction: Translating national allegories: the case of crime fiction 1. National allegories born(e) in translation: the Catalan case 2. Howdunnit? The French translation of Australian cultural identity in Philip McLaren’s crime novel Scream Black Murder / Tueur d’aborigènes 3.‘La dolce vita’ meets ‘the nature of evil’: the paratextual positioning of Italian crime fiction in English Translation 4. Language and the national allegory: translating Peter Temple’s The Broken Shore and Truth into French 5. Empty Sydney or Sydney emptied: Peter Corris’s national allegory translated 6. Strategies for strangeness: crime fiction, translation and the mediation of ‘national’ cultures 7. Translating Peter Temple’s An Iron Rose into French: Pierre Bondil shares his translation practice with Marie-Laure Vuaille-Barcan and Alistair Rolls 8. On being translated: John West-Sooby speaks to Peter Temple