Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in the field of translation studies. It includes monographs and targeted edited collections that provide new insights into this important and evolving subject area.
Translating the Migrant City: Translation Landscapes and Spatial Politics in Superdiverse Urban China
1st Edition
By Jialin Liu
April 30, 2027
This volume reenvisions translation as a spatial, sensorial, and civic practice shaped by migration and urban transformation, using the case study of the eastern Chinese trading city Yiwu to explore the concept of a continuously evolving translational city. Drawing on ethnographic research in Yiwu,...
Memory and Translation in Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah: Retrieving the Lost Voices
1st Edition
Edited
By Roma Sendyka, Magda Heydel
April 19, 2027
This collection represents a decade-long collaboration among an interdisciplinary group of scholars engaging with issues at the intersection of memory and translation in Claude Lanzmann’s foundational film Shoah. The Polish-language testimonies of Holocaust witnesses recorded by Lanzmann have ...
Public Service Interpreters' Identity Management and Identity Crisis: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
1st Edition
By Xiaohui Yuan
April 05, 2027
This book offers the first comprehensive theoretical and empirical study of public service interpreting as fundamental identity work. It develops the Symbolic Interactionist Model of Interpreter’s Identity Management, situating interpreters’ agency, ethical decision-making and professional practice...
Cultural Ex-Change in China: Through the Lens of Translation
1st Edition
By Lintao Qi, Qiaoling Liu
March 23, 2027
Qi and Liu examine the trajectory of sociocultural changes in Chinese society since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 by analysing translation phenomena across distinct historical periods. The book investigates how cultural exchanges are mediated and understood through ...
Translation, Affect, and Censorship: The Production, Circulation, and Reception of Transgressive Novels in Late Francoism
1st Edition
By Sofía Monzón Rodríguez
March 12, 2027
Drawing on extensive archival research and a corpus of transnational literary translations, this book examines the interplay of affect, censorship, and literary translation during late Francoism in Spain. The volume moves the focus beyond traditional studies of the literary landscape amidst ...
Contemporary Chinese Literature in Portugal and Brazil: World Literary Circulation through a Borrowed Periscope
1st Edition
By Mengyuan Zhou
February 04, 2027
Focusing on developments since the turn of the century, Zhou examines the circulation of contemporary Chinese literature in the Portuguese-speaking world. The book shows how publishing decisions, translated framing, and digital recommendation systems shape the movement of books between differently ...
Literary Translation in Peripheral Contexts: How Foreignness Enters the World
1st Edition
By Hunam Yun
December 28, 2026
Yun explores how foreign elements from peripheral cultures navigate translation landscapes dominated by fluency-focused approaches and examines diverse translation strategies, ranging from conventional fluency methods to counter-normative and cultural translation techniques, demonstrating how ...
Translation, Exile and Human Rights: Alicia Partnoy and the Politics of Feminist Solidarity
1st Edition
By María Laura Spoturno
December 28, 2026
This book explores translational activism as intertwined with the experience of exile and human rights advocacy, shining light on the Argentinian poet and activist Alicia Partnoy and her use of translation toward social justice. Spoturno builds on the notion of translation as foundational to ...
Ethics of Generative AI in Translation: Literacy, Guidelines, and Implementation
1st Edition
By Yuezeng Niu, Ali Jalalian Daghigh
December 14, 2026
Advancing research on the ethics of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in translation, this book moves the discussion beyond abstract ethical concerns, towards empirical inquiry and evidence-based recommendations that inform future research and practice. Drawing on three empirical studies ...
Alternative Translation: Children’s Literature, Comics and Digital Media
1st Edition
By Michał Borodo, Dominic Cheetham, Paula Martínez Sirés
December 11, 2026
Focusing on children’s literature, comics, and digital media, this book explores alternative forms of translation, which differ from the more traditional approaches and practices in these fields and from the predominant conceptualizations of translation. Alternative translation has been selected as...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Murakami Haruki’s Translators: Towards a Translator-Centred Model of Literary Circulation
1st Edition
Edited
By Motoko Akashi, Cristina Barroso, Andrea Bergantino, James Luke Hadley
December 11, 2026
This volume shifts attention from the global reception of world-famous author MURAKAMI Haruki’s works, to the translators whose labour enables their circulation. Moving beyond established discussions of literary style, market success, and readership, the book foregrounds the often-overlooked role ...
Translating Children’s Literature into Arabic: Narratives and Frames in Kāmil Kīlānī’s Children’s Library
1st Edition
By Amal Abdul-Aziz Ayoub, Ahmed Saleh Elimam
November 30, 2026
This book offers an in-depth exploration of the development of the translation of children’s literature into Arabic, providing unique insights into the prominent role of Kāmīl Kīlānī in shaping its history as well as for the translation of children’s literature more broadly. The volume surveys ...