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 Foreign Otherness: Cross-Cultural Anxiety in Modern China
1st Edition
By Yifeng Sun
September 25, 2019
This book explores the deep-rooted anxiety about foreign otherness manifest through translation in modern China in its endeavours to engage in cross-cultural exchanges. It offers to theorize and contextualize a related range of issues concerning translation practice in response to foreign otherness...
Translationality: Essays in the Translational-Medical Humanities
1st Edition
By Douglas Robinson
September 25, 2019
This book defines "translationality" by weaving a number of sub- and interdisciplinary interests through the medical humanities: medicine in literature, the translational history of medical literature, a medical (neuroscience) approach to literary translation and translational hermeneutics, and a ...
Translating Frantz Fanon Across Continents and Languages
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathryn Batchelor, Sue-Ann Harding
July 16, 2019
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 and ...
Translating Picturebooks: Revoicing the Verbal, the Visual and the Aural for a Child Audience
1st Edition
By Riitta Oittinen, Anne Ketola, Melissa Garavini
July 16, 2019
Translating Picturebooks examines the role of illustration in the translation process of picturebooks and how the word-image interplay inherent in the medium can have an impact both on translation practice and the reading process itself. The book draws on a wide range of picturebooks published and ...
Translation in Russian Contexts: Culture, Politics, Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Brian James Baer, Susanna Witt
July 16, 2019
This volume represents the first large-scale effort to address topics of translation in Russian contexts across the disciplinary boundaries of Slavic Studies and Translation Studies, thus opening up new perspectives for both fields. Leading scholars from Eastern and Western Europe offer a ...
Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives
1st Edition
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By Olga Castro, Emek Ergun
July 12, 2019
Feminist Translation Studies: Local and Transnational Perspectives situates feminist translation as political activism. Chapters highlight the multiple agendas and visions of feminist translation and the different political voices and cultural heritages through which it speaks across times and ...
The Role of Language in the Climate Change Debate
1st Edition
Edited
By Kjersti Flottum
July 12, 2019
This volume takes a distinctive look at the climate change debate, already widely studied across a number of disciplines, by exploring the myriad linguistic and discursive perspectives and approaches at play in the climate change debate as represented in a variety of genres. The book focuses on key...
Translation and Public Policy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Case Studies
1st Edition
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By Gabriel González Núñez, Reine Meylaerts
July 12, 2019
This book brings together an ensemble of leading voices from the fields of economics, language policy, law, political philosophy, and translation studies. They come together to provide theoretical perspectives and practical case studies regarding a shared concern: translation policy. Their timely ...
Untranslatability Goes Global
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By Suzanne Jill Levine, Katie Lateef-Jan
July 12, 2019
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...
Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan
1st Edition
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By Beverley Curran, Nana Sato-Rossberg, Kikuko Tanabe
June 07, 2019
Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan offers a collection of essays that (1) deepens the understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in contemporary Japan and how translation operates in this shifting context and circulates globally by looking at some of ...
The Dao of Translation: An East-West Dialogue
1st Edition
By Douglas Robinson
September 27, 2018
The Dao of Translation sets up an East-West dialogue on the nature of language and translation, and specifically on the "unknown forces" that shape the act of translation. To that end it mobilizes two radically different readings of the Daodejing (formerly romanized as the Tao Te Ching): the ...
The Pushing-Hands of Translation and its Theory: In memoriam Martha Cheung, 1953-2013
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By Douglas Robinson
September 27, 2018
This book presents an East-West dialogue of leading translation scholars responding to and developing Martha Cheung’s "pushing-hands" method of translation studies. Pushing-hands was an idea Martha began exploring in the last four years of her life, and only had time to publish at article length in...