Translation and Opposition

Dimitris Asimakoulas is the Programme Director for the MA in Audiovisual Translation and the MA in Translation Studies with Intercultural Communication at the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey. He has published in leading translation journals, focusing on sociological approaches to translation. He is a member of the editorial board for New Voices in Translation.Margaret Rogers is Professor of Translation and Terminology Studies and Director of the Centre for Translation Studies at the University of Surrey. She initiated the Terminology Network in the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, UK, and is a founder member of the Association of Terminology and Lexicography. She is a member of the Advisory Boards of Terminology, LSP and Professional Communication and Fachsprache as well as being a member of the Executive Board of the International Institute for Terminology Research.

This invaluable volume explores the complex relations between the translator’s textual action, the agency of the various parties involved in bringing about and exploiting translated works, and the social and political effects of this action and agency. The book’s value lies in its detailed mapping of how all these complex intertextual, interpersonal and inter-group relations intertwine across the translated text. The book provides a clear route-guide for where socially-based translation studies is heading, and should be heading, in the 2010s and beyond.

• Dimitris Asimakoulas: Systems and the Boundaries of Agency: Translation as a Site of OppositionPart I. RewritingsZhao Wenjing: How Ibsen Travels from Europe to China: Ibsenism from Archer, Shaw to Hu ShiŞehnaz Tahir Gürçağlar: Rewriting, Culture Planning and Resistance in the Turkish Folk TaleGonda Van Steen: Where Have All the Tyrants Gone? Romanticism Persians for Royals, Athens 1889Brian James Baer: Oppositional Effects: (Mis)Translating Empire in Modern Russian LiteratureEirlys E. Davies: The Translator’s Opposition: Just One More Act of ReportingPart II. Dispositions and Enunciations of IdentityDavid Kinloch: A Queer Glaswegian VoiceSaliha Paker: Translating ‘the shadow class […] condemned to movement’ and the Very Otherness of the Other: Latife Tekin as Author-Translator of Swords of IceMichela Baldo: Translation and Opposition in Italian Canadian Writing. Nino Ricci’s Trilogy and Its Italian TranslationCarol O’Sullivan: Croker vs. Montalembert on the Political Future of England: Towards a Theory of Antipathetic TranslationChristina Delistathi : Translation as a Means of Ideological Struggle Małgorzata Tryuk “You say nothing, I will interpret” Interpreting in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration CampPart III Socio-Cultural Gates and Gate-KeepingIbon Uribarri Zenekorta: Dialectics of Opposition and Construction: Translation in the Basque CountryJosé Santaemilia: The Translation of Sexually Explicit Language: Almudena Grandes’s Las edades de Lulú (1989) in EnglishTomislav Z. Longinović: Serbo-Croatian: Translating the Non-Identical TwinsChris Rundle: Translation as a Threat to Fascism Camino Gutiérrez Lanza Censors and Censorship Boards in Franco’s Spain (1950s-1960s): An Overview Based on the TRACE Cinema Catalogue