Reframing Translators, Translators as Reframers

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This collection explores the notion of reframing as a framework for better understanding the multi-agent and multi-level nature of the translation process, generating new conversations in current debates on translational agency, authority, and power. The volume puts forward reframing as an alternative metaphor to traditional conceptualizations and descriptions of translation, which often position the process in such terms as transformation, reproduction, transposition, and transfer. Chapters in the book reflect on the translator figure as a central agent in actively moving a translated text to a new context, and the translation process as shaped by different forces and subjectivities when translational agency comes into play. The book brings together cross-disciplinary perspectives for viewing translation through the lens of agents, drawing on a wide range of examples across geographic settings, historical eras, and language pairs. The volume integrates analyses from the translated texts themselves as well as their paratexts to offer unique insights into the different layers of mediation in translation and the new frame(s) created for those texts. This book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies, comparative studies, reception studies, and cultural studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures List of tables Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: Reframing reframers and their stories Reframing collaboration Chapter 1 John Rodker, revising author and revised translator Chapter 2 Reframing Ling Ling: A genetic approach to collaborative poetic rewriting Chapter 3 Self-translation, collaborative translation and rewriting: The poem “Chanson” by Giuseppe Ungaretti and Jean Lescure Reframing creativity Chapter 4 The translator as an ex-isle: Literary translation, collaborative pedagogy, and creative writing Chapter 5 Reframing the entremez in the Iberian Peninsula Chapter 6 Dancing in the hall of f(r)ame(s): Practices of translation and memory in the work of choreographers Chapter 7 Reframing of ships past: Power and style in two translations of Lobo Antunes’s As Naus Reframing paratexts Chapter 8 Agency on the margins and supra-individual habitus: Reframing translation through the Greek peritext of Nicholas Gage’s Eleni Chapter 9 Translators as (self-)reframers: Inquiring into translators’ prefaces to literary works in twenty-first-century Portugal Chapter 10 “What is an Afro-Scot anyway?”: Reframing Jackie Kay’s fluid identities in translation Reframing gender Chapter 11 “A transnational star is born”: Reframing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for the Italian reader Chapter 12 Reframing gendered narrations across cultures: Addressing The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives by Lola Shoneyin to the Italian public Chapter 13 Who’s afraid of Jane Eyre?: Translating as reframing in the Portugal of the 1940s and 1950s Chapter 14 Reframing the female voice: The case of translations of Annie Vivanti’s Circe Index