Companion to Translation Studies

Sandra Bermann is Cotsen Professor of the Humanities, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Master of Whitman College at Princeton University, USA. She was Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton for twelve years, and co-founded the university’s program in Translation and Intercultural Communication. In addition to articles and reviews in scholarly journals, she is the author of The Sonnet over Time: Studies in the Sonnets of Petrarch, Shakespeare, and Baudelaire (1988), and the translator of Alessandro Manzoni’s On the Historical Novel (1996). Prof Bermann also co-edited Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation (2005), with Michael Wood. She recently completed a term as President of the American Comparative Literature Association.Catherine Porter is Visiting Professor in the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, USA, and Professor of French Emerita at the State University of New York at Cortland, where she chaired the Department of International Communications and Culture from 1985–91 and from 1997–2001. She has translated some three dozen books and numerous essays from the French, including recent renderings of Avital Ronell’s Fighting Theory, The Animal Side by Jean-Christophe Bailly, and Luc Boltanski’s The Foetal Condition. Prof Porter was the 2009 President of the Modern Languages Association.

• Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xviIntroduction 1I Approaches to Translation 13 Histories and Theories 141 The Changing Landscape of Translation and Interpreting Studies 15Mona Baker2 Philosophical/Theoretical Approaches to Translation 28Efrain Kristal3 Philosophy in Translation 41Robert J. C. Young4 Variations on Translation 54Susan BassnettMethodologies 675 Text Analysis and Translation 69Jeremy Munday6 The Sociology of Translation: A New Research Domain 82Gisèle Sapiro7 Style in, and of, Translation 95Gabriela Saldanha8 Translation as Higher-Order Text Processing 107Gregory M. Shreve and Isabel Lacruz9 Multimodality in Translation and Interpreting Studies: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives 119Luis Pérez GonzálezTechnologies 13310 Machine Translation: A Tale of Two Cultures 135Brian Lennon11 Localization and the (R)evolution of Translation 147Keiran J. DunneII Translation in a Global Context 163Intercultural Perspectives on Translation 16412 Cultural Hegemony and the Erosion of Translation Communities 165Maria Tymoczko13 Translation as Intercultural Communication: Views from the Chinese Discourse on Translation 179Martha P. Y. Cheung14 Arabic and Translation: Key Moments in Trans‑Cultural Connection 191Roger Allen15 Worlds Without Translation: Premodern East Asia and the Power of Character Scripts 204Wiebke Denecke16 Global and Local Languages 217Gillian Lane-MercierTranslation and the Postcolonial 23117 What Is Special about Postcolonial Translation? 233Ben Conisbee Baer18 Postcolonial Issues in Translation: The African Context 246Kathryn Batchelor19 Postcolonial Issues: Translating Testimony, Arbitrating Justice 259Christi A. MerrillIdentities in Translation 27120 Translocation: Translation, Migration, and the Relocation of Cultures 273Paul F. Bandia21 Performing Translation 285Sandra Bermann22 Queering Translation 298William J. Spurlin23 How Adolfo Caminha’s Bom-Crioulo Was “Outed” through its Translated Paratext 310Cristiano A. Mazzei24 Self-Translation 323Rainier Grutman and Trish Van Bolderen25 Translated Literature and the Role of the Reader 333Brian James BaerTranslation and Comparative World Literature 34726 Translation and National Literature 349David Damrosch27 Poetic Innovation and Appropriative Translation in the Americas 361Rachel J. Galvin28 Majnun Layla: Translation as Transposition 375Ferial J. Ghazoul29 Benjamin’s Proust: Commentary and Translation 388Michael Wood30 A Crisis of Translation: Early European Encounters with Japan 401Valerie Henitiuk31 Revisiting Re-translation: Re-creation and Historical Re-vision 413Elizabeth Lowe32 Reading Literature in Translation 425Peter ConnorIII Genres of Translation 439 Varieties of Translation Practice 44033 The Expository Translator 441Catherine Porter34 Varieties of English for the Literary Translator 454Michael Henry Heim35 Tragedy and Translation 467Phillip John Usher36 The Go-Betweens: Leah Goldberg, Yehuda Amichai, and the Figure of the Poet-Translator 479Adriana X. Jacobs37 Translation and Film: Dubbing, Subtitling, Adaptation, and Remaking 492Wai-Ping Yau38 Visual Paratexts in Literary Translation: Intersemiotic Issues in the Translation of Classical Chinese Literature 504Robert Neather39 Pseudotranslation on the Margin of Fact and Fiction 516Þehnaz Tahir GürçaðlarTranslating the Sacred 52940 Translation and the Sacred: Translating Scripture 531Tom Hare41 Story, Sentence, Single Word: Translation Paradigms in Javanese and Malay Islamic Literature 543Ronit Ricci42 Translating the Sacred: Colonial Constructions and Postcolonial Perspectives 557Hephzibah IsraelIntralingual Translation and Questions of History 57143 Intralingual Translation: Discussions within Translation Studies and the Case of Turkey 573Özlem Berk Albachten44 Intralingual Translation and the Making of a Language 586Kathleen Davis45 Translating Japanese into Japanese: Bibliographic Translation from Woodblock to Moveable Type 599Michael EmmerichIndex 612