Category: Publications

Multilingual Films in Translation A Sociolinguistic and Intercultural Study of Diasporic Films Series:  New Trends in Translation Studies Micòl Beseghi A contribution to the ever-growing field of audiovisual translation studies, this volume investigates the processes involved in the translation of multilingual films, a media genre where language, culture and identity are closely interwoven. To explore the relationships that get established […]

ABSTRACT: A contribution to the ever-growing field of audiovisual translation studies, this volume investigates the processes involved in the translation of multilingual films, a media genre where language, culture and identity are closely interwoven. To explore the relationships that get established between audiovisual translation, linguistic diversity and identity, the book analyses a corpus of immigrant films portraying the South Asian […]

New Series, Volume 1, Number 1 (June 2017)   Preface 1   Lawrence Wang-chi Wong and James St. André       Introduction 3   Bernhard Fuehrer       Joining the Spiritual World of Confucianism: The Jesuit Translation of the Zhongyong 7   Thierry Meynard       Hellenic Shadows on the China Coast: Greek Terms for “Foreigner” and “Religion” […]

Untranslatability Goes Global Edited by Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan © 2018 – Routledge 146 pages   Description This collection brings together contributions from translation theorists, linguists, and literary scholars to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about untranslatability and its implications within the context of globalization. The chapters depart from the pragmatics of translation practice and move on to consider the role of the translator’s voice […]

Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages Edited by Kathryn Batchelor, Sue-Ann Harding © 2017 – Routledge 258 pages   Description This book provides an innovative look at the reception of Frantz Fanon’s texts, investigating how, when, where and why these—especially his seminal Les Damnés de la Terre (1961) —were first translated and read. Building on renewed interest in the author’s works in both postcolonial studies […]

Non-Professional Subtitling Editor(s):David Orrego-Carmona, Yvonne Lee   Subject: Cultural Studies   Book Description From fansubbing, fan-generated translation, to user-generated translation, from amateur translation to social translation, non-professional subtitling has come a long way since its humble beginning in the 1980s. The prevailing technological affordance enables and mobilises the digital generation to turn subtitling into a method of self-expression and mediation, and […]

Queering Translation, Translating the Queer Theory, Practice, Activism Edited by Brian James Baer, Klaus Kaindl © 2018 – Routledge 234 pages | 10 Color Illus. | 7 B/W Illus.   Description This groundbreaking work is the first full book-length publication to critically engage in the emerging field of research on the queer aspects of translation and interpreting studies. The volume presents a variety of theoretical and disciplinary […]