Cities in Translation

‘This is a beautifully written, illuminating and luminous book. Simon journeys through different cities, opening up new vistas from past and present,showing the fundamental importance of languages in shaping cultural, geographical and historical space. I shall never look at a city in the same way again after reading this insightful work.’Susan Bassnett, University of Warwick, UK'As translation studies scholars move from the universal to the particular, from the global to the local, Sherry Simon's Cities in Translation furthers that trend, turning from the nation to the city as a geographic space for investigation. This book will appeal to students of translation first and foremost, but be forewarned that it will challenge traditional definitions and concepts. It will also appeal to literary scholars, social scientists, semioticians, art and architecture historians, urban and community planners, and, especially, literary and cultural studies scholars.'Edwin Gentzler, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA

• 1. Introduction. Turning up the Volume of Translation in the City 2. Nineteenth Century Calcutta: Renaissance City 3. Habsburg Trieste: Anxiety at the Border 4. Barcelona: The Cracked Mirrors of Self-translation. 5. Montreal’s Third Space . 6. Language and Memory