The dark side of translation

Book 2020

"We tend to consider translation as something good, virtuous and bright, but it can also function as an instrument of concealment, silencing and misdirection--as something that darkens and obscures. Propaganda, misinformation, narratives of trauma and imagery of the enemy--to mention just a few of the negative phenomena that shape our lives--show patterns of communication in which translation either functions as a weapon or constitutes a space of...

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ISBN:

9780367337285

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pages cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

The dark side: an introduction / FEDERICO ITALIANO
I. (Post-)colonial translations and hegemonic practices: Beyond a taste for the dark side: the apparatus of area and the modern regime of translation under Pax Americana / JON SOLOMON
The Language of the hegemon: migration and the violence of translation / MONIKA MOKRE
II. The Holocaust and the translator's ambiguity: Primo Levi's grey zone and the ambiguity of translation in Nazi concentration camps / MICHAELA WOLF
Translating the Uncanny, Uncanny Translation / CHRISTOPH LEITGEB
III. The translation of climate change discourses and the ecology of knowledge: Shady Dealings: Translation, Climate and Knowledge / MICHAEL CRONIN
Climate Change and the Dark Side of Translating Science into Popular Culture / ALEXA WEIK VON MOSSNER
Darkness, Obscurity, Opacity: Ecology in Translation / DANIEL GRAZIADEI
IV. Translation as zombification: Zombie History: The Undead in Translation / GUDRUN RATH
ʻMmmRRRrr UrrRrRRrr!!ʼ: Translating Political Anxieties into Zombie--Language in Digital Games / EUGEN PFISTER
Index

LCCN:

2019045967

Control Number:

2915207

Other Authors:

Italiano, Federico, 1976- editor

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