At Translation's Edge

NATAŠA ĎUROVIČOVÁ is the house editor of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, where she publishes 91st Meridian, the program’s online journal, and its book series. She is also co-editor of World Cinemas, Transnational Perspectives.PATRICE PETRO is a professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she also serves as the Dick Wolf Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center and presidential chair in media studies. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of twelve books, including After Capitalism: Horizons of Finance, Culture, and Citizenship (Rutgers University Press).LORENA TERANDO is an associate professor of translation and interpreting studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is the translator of Elvira SÁnchez Blake’s Spiral of Silence (Espiral de silencios).

"Readers tired of nervous calls for clear disciplinary borders around Translation Studies will rejoice at this book, written half by translation scholars living on various knife edges of the discipline, half by people the editors call 'disciplinary neighbors, commuters, for whom questions raised in and by translation serve to queer, as it were, their professional working terrain.' Call me fractious, or fractal, but it’s always seemed to me that we all live at the edge of translation, always, and shouldn’t pretend otherwise." - Douglas Robinson (author of Critical Translation Studies) "At Translation’s Edge is an exciting, innovative and engaging volume which demonstrates the truly subversive potential of translation in the contemporary moment. Ranging across languages, historical periods and technologies, At Translation’s Edge shows how time and again translation disrupts normative thinking about language, writing and politics. This book is required reading for anyone concerned about the democratic future of our multilingual planet." - Michael Cronin (author of Eco-Translation: Translation and Ecology in the Age of the Anthropocene)

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: At Translation’s Edge - NataŠa ĎurovičovÁ and Patrice PetroPart I Translation’s DisciplinesChapter 1 The Eventfulness of Translation: Temporality, Difference, and CompetingUniversals - Lydia H. LiuChapter 2 The Translation of Process - John CayleyChapter 3 Who’s It For: Towards a Rhetoric of Translation - Russell Scott ValentinoPart II Translation at the Limits of Nation-StateChapter 4 Translation and Image: On the Schematism of Co-figuration - Naoki SakaiChapter 5 Bute Droma-Many Roads: Romani Resilience and Translation in Contact with the World - Deborah FolaronChapter 6 Ezhi-gikendamang Aanikanootamang Anishinaabemowin: Anishinaabe Translation Studies - Margaret A. NoodinChapter 7 “If you Could Only Understand My Language”: Counterfeit Script, Make-believeTranslation, and the Actor-Spectator Complicity in The Toll of the Sea (1922), Mr. Wu(1927) and Hollywood Party (1937) - Yiman WangPart III Translation’s Practices & PoliticsChapter 8 Perspectives on the History of Translation in Latin America - Martha Pulido (Lorena Terando, Trans.)Chapter 9 From Interpreting to Colloquial Translations: Tools Indispensible to LiteraryCreation - Olga Behar (Lorena Terando, Trans.)Chapter 10 Language, Policy, and Dis/ability in Senegal, West Africa - Elizabeth R. DrameChapter 11 The Translator in the Text - Suzanne Jill LevineNotes on ContributorsIndex