African Perspectives On Literary Translation

Author : Judith Inggs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000348954
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Perspectives on Literary Translation written by Judith Inggs and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection serves as a showcase for literary translation research with a focus on African perspectives, highlighting theoretical and methodological developments in the discipline while shedding further light on the literary landscape in Africa. The book offers a framework for understanding key approaches and topics in literary translation situated in the African context, covering foundational concepts as well as new directions within the field. The first half of the volume focuses on the translation product, exploring such topics as translation strategies, literary genres, and self-translation, while the second half examines process and reception, allowing for an in-depth look at agency, habitus, and ethics. Each chapter is structured to allow for the introduction of a given theoretical aspect of literary translation followed by a summary of a completed research project with an African focus showing theory in practice, offering a model for readers to build their own literary translation research projects while also underscoring the range of perspectives and unique challenges to literary translation work in Africa. This unique volume is a key resource for students and scholars in translation studies, giving visibility to African perspectives on literary translation while pointing the way forward for future research directions.

Author : Ruth Bush
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108804861
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translation Imperatives written by Ruth Bush and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element explores the politics of literary translation via case studies from the Heinemann African Writers Series and the work of twenty-first-century literary translators in Cameroon. It intervenes in debates concerning multilingualism, race and decolonization, as well as methodological discussion in African literary studies, world literature, comparative literature and translation studies. The task of translating African literary texts has developed according to political and socio-economic contexts. It has contributed to the consecration of a canon of African classics and fuelled polemics around African languages. Yet retranslation remains rare and early translations are frequently criticised. This Element's primary focus on the labour rather than craft or art of translation emphasises the material basis that underpins who gets to translate and how that embodied labour occurs within the process of book production and reception. The arguments draw on close readings, fresh archival material, interviews, and co-production and observation of literary translation workshops.

Author : Paul Bandia
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317640179
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translation as Reparation written by Paul Bandia and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation as Reparation showcases postcolonial Africa by offering African European-language literature as a case study for postcolonial translation theory, and proposes a new perspective for postcolonial literary criticism informed by theories of translation. The book focuses on translingualism and interculturality in African Europhone literature, highlighting the role of oral culture and artistry in the writing of fiction. The fictionalizing of African orature in postcolonial literature is viewed in terms of translation and an intercultural writing practice which challenge the canons of colonial linguistic propriety through the subversion of social and linguistic conventions. The study opens up pathways for developing new insights into the ethics of translation, as it raises issues related to the politics of language, ideology, identity, accented writing and translation. It confirms the place of translation theory in literary criticism and affirms the importance of translation in the circulation of texts, particularly those from minority cultures, in the global marketplace. Grounded in a multidisciplinary approach, the book will be of interest to students and scholars in a variety of fields, including translation studies, African literature and culture, sociolinguistics and multilingualism, postcolonial and intercultural studies.

Author : Emmanuel Chia
Publisher : African Books Collective
ISBN 13 : 9956558443
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Translation and Interpretation in Cameroon written by Emmanuel Chia and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2009 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perspectives on Translation and Interpretation in Cameroon is the first volume of a book series of the Advanced School of Translators and Interpreters (ASTI) of the University of Buea. It opens a window into the wide dynamic and interesting area of translation and interpretation in a multilingual Cameroon that had on the eve of independence and unification opted for official bilingualism in French and English. The book comprises contributions from scholars of translation in the broad area of translation, comprising: the concept of translation and its pedagogy, the history of translation and, the state of the art of translation as a discipline, profession and practice. The book also focuses on acquisition of translation competences through training, and chronicles the history of translation in Cameroon through the contributions of both Cameroonian and European actors from the German through the French and English colonial periods to the postcolonial present in their minutia. Rich, original and comprehensive, the book is a timely and invaluable contribution to the growing community of translators and interpreters in Africa and globally.

Author : J. A. Naudé
Publisher : University of Free State
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Translation Studies and Bible Translation written by J. A. Naudé and published by University of Free State. This book was released on 2002 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith Inggs
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847145892
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translation Studies in Africa written by Judith Inggs and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-05-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating volume bringing together research articles on translation and interpreting studies in Africa, written mainly, but not exclusively, by researchers living and working in the region.

Author : Haidee Kruger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027272980
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Polysystems written by Haidee Kruger and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Polysystems: The Production and Reception of Translated Children’s Literature in South Africa is an original and provocative contribution to the field of children’s literature research and translation studies. It draws on a variety of methodologies to provide a perspective, both product- and process-oriented, on the ways in which translation contributes to the production of children’s literature in South Africa, with a special interest in language and power, as well as post- and neocolonial hybridity. The book explores the forces that affect the use of translation in producing children’s literature in various languages in South Africa, and shows how some of these forces precipitate in the selection, production and reception of translated children’s books in Afrikaans and English. It breaks new ground in its interrogation of aspects of translation theory within the multilingual and postcolonial context of South Africa, as well as in its innovative experimental investigation of the reception of domesticating and foreignising strategies in translated picture books.

Author : Vakunta, Peter Wuteh
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
ISBN 13 : 9956763047
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on the Theory and Practice of Translating Camfranglais Literature written by Vakunta, Peter Wuteh and published by Langaa RPCIG. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study teases out the nexus between text typologies and translational paradigms. Camfranglais fictional works are not canonical texts; rather they find a niche in the corpus of peripheral ethnographic texts that require an interpretive approach to translational practice. Translators of Camfranglais literature cannot but be like the texts they translate - at once multilingual and multicultural. Given the Polytonal and multilingual composition of Camfranglais literary texts, the onus rests with translators charged with the onerous task of bridging communicative gaps to conceive models that are germane to the translation of these multi-coded texts.

Author : Laurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027261628
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Translating Sound Motifs in African Fiction written by Laurence Jay-Rayon Ibrahim Aibo and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with the premise that aesthetic choices reveal the ideological stances of translators, the author of this research monograph examines works of fiction by postcolonial African authors writing in English or French, the genesis and reception of their works, and the translation of each one into French or English. Texts include those by Nuruddin Farah from Somalia, Abdourahman Ali Waberi from Djibouti, Jean-Marie Adiaffi from Côte d’Ivoire, Ayi Kwei Armah from Ghana, Chenjerai Hove from Zimbabwe, and Assia Djebar from Algeria, and their translations by Jacqueline Bardolph, Jeanne Garane, Brigitte Katiyo, Jean-Pierre Richard, Josette and Robert Mane, and Dorothy Blair. The author highlights the aural poetics of these works, explores the sound motifs underlying their literary power, and shows how each is articulated with the writer’s literary heritage. She then embarks on a close examination of each translator’s background, followed by a rich analysis of their treatments of sound. The translators’ strategies for addressing sound motifs are contextualized in the larger framework of postcolonial literatures and changing reading materialities.

Author : Kathryn Batchelor
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1781386781
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intimate Enemies written by Kathryn Batchelor and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of translation has become central to postcolonial theory in recent decades. This volume draws together reflections by translators, authors and academics working across Africa, the Caribbean and the Indian Ocean - areas where the linguistic legacies of French colonial operations are long-lasting and complex.