Translators Writing, Writing Translators

Francoise Massardier-Kenney

• Publisher: The Kent State University Press
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9781606352328, 9781606352328
• eBook ISBN: 9781631011467
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Translating & Interpreting
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Translators Writing, Writing Translators is a collection of essays by some of the leading scholar-practitioners working in the field of translation studies. Inspired by the work of distinguished translator and theorist Carol Maier, the contributors reflect, in a variety of forms—from biographical essays to studies of fictional translators to reflective commentary on translation projects and collaborations—on the complex, constantly evolving relationship of theory and practice as embodied in the writing of translators and in the concept of translation as writing. 

The fact that most scholars in translation studies are also practitioners is one of the unique and defining aspects of the discipline. Nonetheless, the field has long been distinguished by a separation of translation theory and practice evidenced by suspicion among practitioners regarding the relevance of translation theory and reluctance by theoreticians to incorporate translation practice into their theoretical writings. Maier's pioneering work stands out as a particularly influential and provocative attempt to rethink and deconstruct the opposition of theory to practice. For Maier, translation theory becomes a site for the investigation of the translator's personal and professional investments in a foreign author, and the translation itself becomes an embodiment of a host of theoretical concerns. Considering the translator's biography and credentials is another defining feature of Maier's work that is discussed in the essays of this volume. 

The combination of the theoretical and the practical makes this collection of interest to a broad array of readers, from scholars and students of translation studies and world literature, to translation practitioners, and as to general readers interested in questions of translation and cross-cultural communication. Rosemary Arrojo, Peter Bush, Ronald Christ, Suzanne Jill Levine, Christi Merrill, Noël Valis, Lawrence Venuti, and Kelly Washbourne are just a few of the scholar-practitioners contributing to this volume. The introduction by Brian James Baer, Françoise Massardier-Kenney, and Maria Tymoczko offers an overview of the central concerns of Maier's work as a writing translator and a translator who writes.

Index

Aaltonen, Sirkku, 114

Abildskov, Marilyn, 61

abolition, Coronado and Lowe on, 187, 194, 203

Academias Pitman (Argentina), 42

Alexander, Meena, 58

All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers, 86

Amairgen’s poem. See Lebor Gabála Érenn

América: Crónica Hispano-Americana, 193

Anabase (St.-John Perse), 116–17

Anderson, Maggie, 3

Antigone (Sophocles), 178

“Antigone’s Delirium” (Zambrano), 169–86; text, 169–77; Zambrano’s life and work, 177–80, 183–84; Zambrano’s translation compared to other Antigone myth translations, 180–83

Argentina: Academias Pitman, 42; execution of Walsh in, 47–49 (see also “Nota al pie” [Walsh])

Armand, Octavio: “Dimitra,” 223–30; overview of work, 4, 6; “Un brindis por Carol Maier,” 19–22

Arrojo, Rosemary, 39–53

Art as Experience (Dewey), 12–13

Art Institute of Chicago, 92

Asimov, Isaac, 114

assimilation, language and, 27

Assmann, Jan, 151n14

Atlantic Monthly, 202

aura, 125–26n12

authority, translation of living writers and, 112–13

authors, 107–30; author function, 141; authorship and identity, 122–23; collaborative roles of authors and translators, 107–8, 109; focus on readers and, 211; translating deceased authors’ works, 109–10, 118–23; translating living authors’ works, 108–11, 112–17. See also individual names of authors

barrio, defined, 218

Bassani, Giorgio, 31

bawdiness (literary), translating, 158–63

Beach Birds (Sarduy), 75

Benjamin, Walter, 125n11, 125–26n12, 182

Berman, Antoine, 78

Bérubé, Michael, 109

“Betrayed” (Packer), 99

Between Languages and Cultures: Translation and Cross-Cultural Texts (Dingwaney, Maier), 8–9, 57

Binyon, Lawrence, 124–25n7

Bioy Casares, Adolfo, 69–75

Black on Maroon (Rothko), 89

Black Square (Malevich), 85

Blaise, Clark, 59–60

Bloody Mary, defined, 218–19

Bloy, León, 171

Boéri, Julie, 97–105

Book of Invasions, The. See Lebor Gabála Érenn

Book of Leinster, 149n7

Boorman, Theodore, 158

Boquitas pintados (Puig), 72–73

Borge, Jorge Luis, 5, 52n6, 69, 113, 223, 226

Bradley University, 98

Breitinger, Johann Jacob, 57

Bryant, William Cullen, 197, 204

Bush, Andrew, 182

Bush, Peter, 155–67; influence of, 210; on Pontiero, 113; on translation of style, examples, 158–66; on translation of style, references, 155–58

Caballero, Beatriz, 180–81

Calasso, Roberto, 156

camp language, translating, 158–63

“Carolina Coronado, Poetess of Spain” (Lowe), 188–91

“Carta a Marta” (Coronado), 204

Castillo, Ana,...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Un brindis por Carol Maier/A Toast for Carol Maier
• The In-Between: Scenes from a Life in Translation
• A Portrait of the Translator as Laborer: A Reflection on Rodolfo Walsh’s “Nota al pie”
• Memoir as Translation, Memory in Translation
• “The Other Adventure” with Bioy Casares: Notes toward a Literary Memoir
• What Is Red?: Reclaiming the Art of Interpreting
• Interview with Carol Maier
• Author Trouble: Translating the Living, Translating the Dead
• Victory by Verse
• Camp, Cubism, and the Translation and Editing of Style: Valle-Inclán’s Tyrant Banderas
• “Antigone’s Delirium” by María Zambrano
• Carolina Coronado and Martha Perry Lowe: Translating Sisterhood
• Pro Pombo: From Contra Natura by Álvaro Pombo
• “Dimitra” by Octavio Armand
• Bibliography of Carol Maier
• Contributors
• Index