Translating Women

Luise von Flotow

• Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
• Year: 2011
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• eBook ISBN:
  9780776619507
• Subtopic: Translating & Interpreting
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Translating Women explores women in translation in many contexts, whether they are translators, authors, or characters. Together the contributors show that feminist theory can apply to translation in many new and unexplored ways and that it deserves the full attention of the discipline that helped it become internationally influential. Feminist theory has been widely translated, influencing the humanities and social sciences in many languages and cultures. However, these theories have not made as much of an impact on the discipline that made their dissemination possible: many translators and translation scholars still remain unaware of the practices, purposes and possibilities of gender in translation. Translating Women revives the exploration of gender in translation begun in the 1990s by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood's Re-belle et infidèle/The Body Bilingual (1992), Sherry Simon's Gender in Translation (1996), and Luise von Flotow's Translation and Gender (1997). Translating Women complements those seminal texts by providing a wide variety of examples of how feminist theory can inform the study and practice of translation. Looking at such diverse topics as North American chick lit and medieval Arabic, Translating Women explores women in translation in many contexts, whether they are women translators, women authors, or women characters. Together the contributors show that feminist theory can apply to translation in many new and unexplored ways and that it deserves the full attention of the discipline that helped it become internationally influential. Published in English.

INDEX

Abelló, Montserrat, 121, 122–124, 133

Abrams, Sam, 127, 128

Abu-Lughod, Lila, 170

Activist translation, 1–9, 283–287, 292, 293, 298–300

Addison, Joseph, 21

Additions, by translator

to Considérations générales sur la végétation, 28

to La botanique historique et littéraire, 17, 20–21, 23

to Paul and Virginia, 60–61, 64–65

phenomenon of, 14

Adelaide and Theodore (Genlis), 15

Adèle et Théodore, ou lettres sur l’éducation (Genlis), 15

Aeschylus, 53

After Babel (Steiner), 67

Agosín, Marjorie, 84, 89

Ahmad, Aijaz, 98

Aillagon, Jean-Jacques, 269–270

Akhmatova, Anna, 98, 101, 130, 131–133

Alexander, Anna, 157–158

Alfred A. Knopf (publisher)

The Second Sex and, 152, 153, 158–163

Algren, Nelson, 159

Alliteration, 204, 217, 225, 228, 233–234

Ally McBeal (TV series), 183, 184, 186, 191, 195

Alterity

Berman on, 63, 206, 210–211, 220

Budick on, 63

in Paul and Virginia, 60, 61–64, 68

Robyns on, 268–269

Venuti on, 206

Althusser, Louis, 127, 128, 264

L’amor adult (Valentí), 125

Amphitryon (Molière), 53

A Natural System of Botany (Lindley), 27

“Anna Akhmatova: Cassandra of Saint Petersburg” (Zgustova)...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle
• Titlepage
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter 01. The Voice of Nature: British Women Translating Botany in the Early Nineteenth Century
• Chapter 02. A Dream of Light in the Eternal Darkness: Karolina Pavlova’s Translations from the German
• Chapter 03. Helen Maria Williams’ Paul and Virginia and the Experience of Mediated Alterity
• Chapter 04. From “Alejandra” to “Susanna”: Susan Bassnett’s “Life Exchange” with Alejandra Pizarnik
• Chapter 05. Re-vision and/as Translation: The Poetry of Adrienne Rich
• Chapter 06. “I like women”: Regarding Feminine Affinities in Translation
• Chapter 07. Ulrike Meinhof: De-fragmented and Re-membered
• Chapter 08. Why Philosophy Went Missing: Understanding the English Version of Simone de Beauvoir’s Le deuxième sexe
• Chapter 09. The Story of Ruth and Esperanza: Concepts of Translation in Ruth Behar’s Translated Woman
• Chapter 10. Sexuality and Femininity in Translated Chick Texts
• Chapter 11. Echoes of Emily Dickinson: Male and Female French Translators Listening to the Poet
• Chapter 12. Prefacing Gender: Framing Sei Shônagon for a Western Audience, 1875–2006
• Chapter 13. Translating Gender/Traduire le genre: Is Transdiscursive Translation Possible?
• Chapter 14. On Becoming in Translation: Articulating Feminisms in the Translation of Marie Vieux-Chauvet’s Les Rapaces
• Chapter 15. “Gender Trouble” in the American Translation of Tahar Ben Jelloun’s L’Enfant de sable
• Index