Avant-Garde Translation

Alexandra Lukes is Assistant Professor of French and Translation Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She received her Ph.D. from New York University. She is the editor of the special issue “Nonsense, Madness, and the Limits of Translation” (Translation Studies, 2019).

“The Approaches-series follows the developments of contemporary translation studies from its real beginnings in the 1970s up to the present day. It does so in a completely open and free manner, with full attention to the many aspects of a phenomenon that is a barometer both for the contacts in our own society and those with other societies – as well as for how people think, talk and act interculturally, in good times and in bad times.”-Ton Naaijkens, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

• List of FiguresNotes on Contributors1 Introduction: Translation Needs an Avant-GardeAlexandra Lukes2 The Avant-Garde of Translating and Blaise Cendrars’s “Académie Médrano”: A Set of Reflections and TranslationsClive Scott3 Say It in Splayn Words, Splain It in Sane WorseErik Bindervoet and Robbert-Jan Henkes4 The Non-existent Translators of Fernando PessoaMatías Battistón, Ana Laura Paolini, Gerardo Supino and Norberto Magenta5 Outranspo in Conversation with Contemporary Art: From Haroldo de Campos to a Curatorial Practice of Intersemiotic TranslationPablo Martín Ruiz6 To Erre Is Calque: The Uses and Abuses of Calque in Avant-Garde TranslationLily Robert-Foley7 Prismatic Translation 2.0: A (Potential) Future for Avant-Garde TranslationConor Brendan Dunne8 “Now Open the Box”: Translating Avant-Garde PicturebooksAudrey Coussy9 Reading a Multilingual Poem: A Practice in Avant-Garde Translation?Alexandra Lukes10 An Alphabet of Avant-Garde Perspectives on World Literature and the Translator’s (In)visibilityWith an Avant-Garde Translation of Walter Benjamin’s “Die Aufgabe des Übersetzers”Douglas RobinsonIndex of Names