Translating Holocaust Literature

Peter Arnds

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9783847105015
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847005018
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism History & Theory
• Index: Literature

In his testimony on his survival in Auschwitz Primo Levi said "our language lacks words to express this offense, the demolition of a man". If language, if any language, lacks the words to express the experience of the concentration camps, how does one write the unspeakable? How can it then be translated? The limits of representation and translation seem to be closely linked when it comes to writing about the Holocaust – whether as fiction, memoir, testimony – a phenomenon the current study examines. While there is a spate of literature about the impossibility to represent the Holocaust, not much has been written on the links between translation in its specific linguistic sense, translation studies, and the Holocaust, a niche this volume aims to fill.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Introduction
• Alan Turnbull: The Dresden Archive Project. A contemporary artwork
• Tara Bergin: Translating the Passion of Ravensbrück: Ted Hughes and János Pilinszky
• Alana Fletcher: Transforming Subjectivity: Se questo è un uomo in Translation and Adaptation
• Bettina Stumm: Collaborative Translation: The Relational Dimensions of Translating Holocaust Trauma
• Gaëtan Pégny interviews François Rastier: Witnessing and Translating: Ulysses at Auschwitz
• Rita Horváth: “The Magical Properties of Creative Sameness: The Role of Translation in Anne Michaelss Fugitive Pieces”
• Stephanie Faye Munyard: Berman and Beyond: The Trial of the Foreign and the Translation of Holocaust Literature
• Anna Nunan: Translating Monika Maron's Pawels Briefe as a Postmemorial Holocaust Text
• Rosa Marta Gómez Pato: Poetry of Memory and Trauma and their Translation
• Bastian Reinert: Translating Memory. Acts of Testimony in Resnais, Cayrol, and Celan
• Index