Translation of Children's Literature

Gillian Lathey is Reader in Children’s Literature at Roehampton University and Acting Director of the National Centre for Research in Children’s Literature. She currently teaches children’s literature at undergraduate and Masters levels; supervises PhD students undertaking children’s literature projects; researches the practices and history of translating for children, and administers the biennial Marsh Award for Children’s Literature in Translation. Publications include a comparative study of the representation of war in German and British children’s literature, and articles on translation for children and the reading histories of German-Jewish child refugees in the UK in the 1930s and 40s.

In the last few decades a number of European scholars have paid an increasing amount of attention to children’s literature in translation. This book not only provides a synthetic account of what has been achieved in the field, but also makes us fully aware of all the textual, visual and cultural complexities that translating for children entails. Apart from few important Scandinavian studies of children’s literature in translation, students of this subject have had problems in finding a book that attempted an up-to-date and comprehensive review of the field. Gillian Lathey’s Reader does just this; it investigates a whole range of textual, visual and cultural issues that translating literature for children entails.

• Acknowledgements/ Introduction I. Translations for Children: Theoretical Approaches and their Application 1. Translating for Children - Eithne O’Connell2. Translation of Children’s Literature - Zohar Shavit3. Translation Studies in Contemporary Children’s Literature: A Comparison of Intercultural Ideological Factors - Marisa Fernández López4. Translating Children’s Literature: Theoretical Approaches and Emprical Studies - Tiina Puurtinen II. Narrative Communication and the Child Reader 5. How Emil Becomes Michel: On the Translation of Children’s Books - Birgit Stolt 6. The Verbal and the Visual: On the Carnivalism and Dialogics of Translating for Children - Riitta Oittinen7. Narratology Meets Translation Studies, or The Voice of the Translator - Emer O’Sullivan III. Translating the Visual 8. Translating Pictures - Emer O’Sullivan9. Intertextuality/ Intervisuality in Translation: The Jolly Postman’s Intercultural Journey from Britain to the Netherlands - Mieke Desmet 10. Time, Narrative Intimacy and the Child: Implications of Tense Switching in the Translation of Picture Books into English - Gillian Lathey IV. The Travels of Children’s Books and Cross-cultural Influences 11. Does Pinocchio have an Italian Passport? What is Specifically National and what is International about Classics of Children’s Literature - Emer O’Sullivan12. The Early Reception of the Grimms’ Kinder- und Hausmärchen in England - David Blamires 13. Nursery Politics: Sleeping Beauty, or the Acculturation of a Tale - Karen Seago 14. Harry Potter and the Tower of Babel: Translating the Magic - Nancy K. Jentsch V. The Translator’s Voice 15. Mark Twain’s ‘Slovenly Peter’ in the Context of Twain and German Culture - J.D.Stahl 16. Eight Ways To Say You: The Challenges of Translation - Cathy Hirano 17. Translator’s Notebook: Delicate Matters - Anthea Bell Notes on ContributorsReferences