Transfiction and Bordering Approaches to Theorizing Translation: Essays in Dialogue with the Work of Rosemary Arrojo

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This collection seeks to expand the centers from which scholars theorize translation, building on themes in Rosemary Arrojo’s pioneering work on transfiction and the influence of bordering disciplines in investigating and elucidating questions central to the field of translation studies. Chapters by scholars around the world theorize translation from diverse perspectives, drawing on a wide range of literatures, genres, and media, including fiction, philosophy, drama, and film. Half the chapters explore the influence of Rosemary Arrojo’s work on transfiction and the ways in which fictional representations of translators and translation can shed new light on theoretical concerns. The other chapters look to fields outside translation studies, such as linguistics, media studies, and philosophy, to demonstrate the ways in which the key thinkers and theories that have influenced Arrojo’s work can be seen in other disciplines and in turn, encourage further cross-disciplinary research interrogating key questions in the field. The collection makes the case for a multi-layered approach to theorizing translation, one which accounts for the rich possibilities in revisiting existing work and thinking outside disciplinary boundaries in order to advance the field. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in translation studies and comparative literature. Cover Endorsement Page Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents List of Contributors Introduction: Bordering Approaches & Trans-Bordering Themes in Dialogue with the Work of Rosemary Arrojo Borders Disciplinary Borders Theoretical Borders Crossing Borders: Translation, Power, Meaning Linguistic Borders Bordering Risks Notes Bibliography Rosemary Arrojo Career Bibliography Co-written with Andrew Chesterman Co-written with Carol Maier and Marilyn Gaddis Rose Co-written with Ben Van Wyke Co-written with Kanavillil Rajagopalan Chapter 1: The Centrality of the Margins: The Translator’s Footnote as Parergon Introduction Transfictional Footnote Novels Translation as a—Futile—Search for True Meaning: The Athenian Murders 3 Translation as Polyphonic Rewriting: The House of Leaves Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 2: Between Omnipotence and Humility: Scliar’s Fictional Translator and Borges’ Pierre Menard Introduction Scliar’s Fictional Translator Borges’ Pierre Menard Between Omnipotence and Humility Final Remarks Notes Bibliography Chapter 3: The Representation of the Translator in Chico Buarque de Holanda’s Essa gente : Impertinent Letter, Irony, and Co-authorship Introduction Contemporary Brazilian Fiction: Essa gente Unseemly Interventions: Who Is Entitled to Interpretation? Revision/Proofreading as Co-authorship Resourceful Translator, Impotent Writer Final Remarks Note Bibliography Chapter 4: The Sequestered Home: Translation and Counter-Families in Jane Eyre Introduction The Counter-Family Mother Nature The Ever-Watchful Blue Eye The Robbers Bibliography Chapter 5: Detours of Babel Detours Tower of Flames Beginning in Fire Before the Fire Tower of Fluidities Beginning in Water Before the Water Des tours Notes Bibliography Chapter 6: Transfiction in Late Soviet Society: The Imaginary East in Semyon Lipkin’s Dekada Introduction Translation in Late Soviet Culture Lipkin’s Dekada Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 7: “Scrambled Tongues United in a Single Voice”: Transfiction in Contemporary Colombian Literature Introduction Latin Moon in Manhattan : Translation and Subjectivity La sombra del licántropo : Translation as a Matter of Life and Death Changó el gran putas : Against Colonial Translation By Way of Conclusion: Reading and Opacity Notes Bibliography Chapter 8: Fidelity and Performability in Theater (Translation) Introduction Theatrical Translation: Still Fidelity Theatrical Staging: Beyond Fidelity Final Considerations Notes Bibliography Chapter 9: Translation Dilemmas in South Korea: Assessing the Translator’s Role in the Global Success of Parasite (2019), The Vegetarian (2016), and Please Look After Mom (2011) Introduction New Perspectives on Literary Translation in Korea Returning to the Old Clichés of Translation The Struggle for and Will to Power Who Gets to Translate Korean? Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 10: The Unfaithful Faithfulness : The Practice of Translation and Arrojo’s post- Nietzschean Insights Post-Nietzschean Thought, Fidelity in Translation, and the Provisional Limits of Interpretation Changing Scenes, Changing Fidelities: Black Boy and I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Concluding Remarks: The Inevitably Unfaithful Faithfulness Notes Bibliography Chapter 11: A Post-Therapeutic ‘*Translation’ 1 Concept Setting Up the Stage for a General Concept Towards the Ad Hoc Compromise of the “Translator’s ‘Kit’” A General, Post-Therapeutic Concept of ‘*Translation’ — Not Restricted to TS Notes Bibliography Chapter 12: Notes on Translation, Alterity, and Relationality: From the Regimes of Indistinction to the Disclosure of Relation Notes Bibliography Chapter 13: Toward a Grammatologically Informed Linguistics Deconstruction’s Dramatic Debut in the Early 1960s and the Shock Waves It Unleashed Deconstruction as a Wrecking Ball and an Antidote to Linguistics: An Apology for Nurturing the Hope of a ‘Grammatologically Informed’ Linguistics The Rise of So-called ‘Modern Linguistics’ on the Back of the Newfound Wave of ‘Scientism’ Doing Linguistics More in Tune with the Fast-Changing Reality “Out There” The First Step toward Deconstructing the Fundamental Building Blocks of Structural Linguistics What Linguistics Can Learn from Chemistry and Philosophy in Dealing with Shifting Paradigms and Mindsets A New Linguistics, Reborn Phoenix-like, from Its Own Ashes? Acknowledgment Note Bibliography Chapter 14: “A Modest Proposal” for a Translation Theory Introduction “There’s the rub” Back to the scandal Complexity, Impossibility, Singularity: Literature, Translation, and Philosophy Seasons, Relève: A Relevant Translation Notes Bibliography Index