The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism

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The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Activism provides an accessible, diverse and ground-breaking overview of literary, cultural, and political translation across a range of activist contexts. As the first extended collection to offer perspectives on translation and activism from a global perspective, this handbook includes case studies and histories of oppressed and marginalised people from over twenty different languages. The contributions will make visible the role of translation in promoting and enabling social change, in promoting equality, in fighting discrimination, in supporting human rights, and in challenging autocracy and injustice across the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, East Asia, the US and Europe. With a substantial introduction, thirty-one chapters, and an extensive bibliography, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all activists, translators, students and researchers of translation and activism within translation and interpreting studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of contributors 1. Introduction: translation and activism in the time of the now PART I: Theorising translation and activism 2. Theory, practice, activism: Gramsci as a translation theorist 3. Activist translation, alliances, and performativity: translating Judith Butler’s Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly into Italian 4. Farhadpour, prismatically translated: philosophical prose and the activist agenda Thought/translation 5. Translating Marx in Japan: Yoshimoto Taka’aki and Japanese Marxism Contemporary times and Marx PART II: The interpreter as activist 6. Okyeame poma: exploring the multimodality of translation in precolonial African contexts 7. Translator, native informant, fixer: activism and translation in Mandate Palestine 8. Translation in the war-zone: the Gaza Strip as case study PART III: The translator as activist 9. Translating mourning walls: Aleppo’s last words 10. Resistance, activism and marronage in Paul Bowles’s translations of the oral stories of Tangier 11. Translators as organic intellectuals: translational activism in pre-revolutionary Iran 12. Translating for Le Monde diplomatique en español: disciplinary norms and activist agendas PART IV: Bearing witness 13. Written on the heart, in broken English 14. Writing as hospitality: translating the fragment in Arabic and English 15. Joint authorship and preface-writing practices as translation in post- ‘Years of Lead’ Morocco 16. Activist narratives: Latin American testimonies in translation PART V: Translation and human rights 17. The right not to have an interpreter in criminal trials: the Irish language as a case study 18. The right to understand and to be understood: urban activism and US migrants’ access to interpreters 19. Feminism in translation: reframing human rights law through transnational Islamic feminist networks PART VI: Translating the vernacular 20. Against a single African literary translation theory 21. The single most translated short story in the history of African writing: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the Jalada writers’ collective 22. The dialectics of dissent in postcolonial India: Vrishchik (1969–1973) 23. Bengali Dalit discourse as translational activism: studying a Dalit autobiography PART VII: Translation, migration, refugees 24. What is asylum? Translation, trauma, and institutional visibility 25. Citation and recitation: linguistic legacies and the politics of translation in the Sahrawi refugee context 26. Resistant recipes: food, gender and translation in migrant and refugee narratives PART VIII: Translation and revolution 27. Late-Qing translation (1840–1911) and the political activism of Chinese evolutionism 28. ‘The pen is mightier than the sword’: exploring the ‘warrior’ Lu Xun from 1903 to 1936 29. The political modes of translation in Iran: national words, right sentences, class paragraphs 30. Civil resistance through online activist translation in Taiwan’s Sunflower Student Movement 31. Afterword: postcolonialism, activism, and translation Index