ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Memory serves as a timely and unique resource for the current boom in thinking around translation and memory. The Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of a contemporary, and as yet unconsolidated, research landscape with a four-section structure which encompasses both current debate and future trajectories.

Twenty-four chapters written by leading and emerging international scholars provide a cross-sectional snapshot of the diverse angles of approach and case studies that have thus far driven research into translation and memory. A valuable, far-reaching range of theoretical, empirical, reflective, comparative, and archival approaches are brought to bear on translational sites of memory and mnemonic sites of translation through the examination of topics such as traumatic, postcolonial, cultural, literary, and translator memory.

This Handbook is key reading for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in translation studies, memory studies, and related areas.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of contributors

Introduction

I. Translation and memory of trauma

Translating Holocaust testimony: a translator’s perspective

Translating the perpetrator’s testimony: Kommandant in Auschwitz (Holocaust) and Une saison de machettes (Rwanda)

Translating collective memory of Beslan: Russian state television news coverage of annual commemorations

Conflicting memories of war interpreting

Translation and colonial memory in East Africa

At the intersection of the writing of translations and memory: bridging communities affected by past conflict

II. End-users

Translated Holocaust poetry and the reader

Travelling memory, transcreation and politics: the case of Refugee tales

Mnemonic entrepreneurship and trans(articu)lation of the Philippine national anthem

Translation, memory, and the museum visitor

Reframing collective memory in museums

Heritage interpretation(s): remembering, translating, and utilizing the past

III. Figuring memory and translation

Re-trans-post: translation as memory in Québécois culture

Translating trauma in the literary text: violent pasts in Mathias Énard’s Zone and its English and German versions

Transcultural counter-memory and translation in contemporary Spanish fiction

Translating counter-memory in Australian Aboriginal texts

Postmemory lost: historiographical meta-fiction Jinling Shishan Chai in translation

Collective and corrective memories of a classic: mapping Oliver Twist’s memory in translation

IV. Future trajectories

An archive of hope: translating memories of revolution

Translator memory and archives

The French diplomat and the Omaha shopkeeper: photographs of interpreters, 1873–1910

Translation memory systems

Computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools, translation memory and literary translation

Translation and Inuit memory

　

Index