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  Queer Translation

  Vol. 14 No. 1 (2022)

  Cover image: Serge-Vincent Malena

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  Non thematic

  Vol. 13 No. 1 (2021)

  Articles, Essays, Stories, Translations, and Reviews

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  Non-thematic

  Vol. 12 No. 2 (2020)

   

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  Discourses on Retranslation

  Vol. 12 No. 1 (2020)

  GUEST EDITOR: ŞEHNAZ TAHİR GÜRÇAĞLAR

• Thesis Abstracts

  MA and PhD dissertations completed in the fields of translation and cultural studies. Please register and login to submit a thesis abstract. 

• Non Thematic Issue

  Vol. 11 No. 1 (2019)
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  Lost and Found in (Self-)Translation: From Colonial to Post-colonial Contexts - L’(auto-)traduction en contextes coloniaux et postcoloniaux : s'y perdre et s'y retrouver

  Vol. 10 No. 1 (2018)

  Guest Editors: Denise Merkle, Gillian Lane-Mercier, Michel Mallet
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  Translation and Borders

  Vol. 9 No. 2 (2017)
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  Translation and Performance

  Vol. 9 No. 1 (2017)
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  Translation and Comics

  Vol. 8 No. 2 (2016)
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  Translation and Memory

  Vol. 8 No. 1 (2016)
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  Women in Translation

  Vol. 7 No. 1 (2015)
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  Translating Street Art

  Vol. 6 No. 1 (2014)

  Special Issue Guest Editor: Elena Siemens
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  Translating Peripheries

  Vol. 5 No. 1-2 (2013)
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  Authors‒Translators‒Authors

  Vol. 4 No. 1 (2011)

  Authors who are also translators and translators who translate and write. Explorations of issues of methods and creativity.
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  SLAVIC LITERATURES ACROSS SPACE & TIME

  Vol. 1 No. 4 (2011)
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  TRANSLATION AND IMPERSONATION

  Vol. 1 No. 3 (2010)

  Whether you consider translation a relatively straightforward transfer from one language to another, a desirable means to put cultures in contact with each other, an impossible task that masochistic translators everywhere nevertheless persist in attempting, a necessary evil imposed by globalization, an imperialist tool or an instrument of peace, a duty, a dirty secret, a faulty means of communication, an art, an acquired skill, or a complex practice navigating the treacherous waters of all of the above, you may never have thought of it as impersonation. We invite all of you, therefore, no matter what kind of translation you do, study or merely wish to do, to reflect on the impersonating power of translation! The OED offers these simple definitions for “impersonation”: 1. The action of impersonating or fact of being impersonated; representation in personal or bodily form; personification; b. concr. An instance of this; a person or thing impersonating or representing a principle, idea, etc.; 2. The dramatic representation of a character. Since all of these point to the “personification” of an idea or a character, that is to the persons of the impersonator and partly of the impersonated, our theme will have to consider both the person of the translator as impersonator and the “thing” of translation as impersonation. In this framework translation also becomes performance and the translator a performer of the skills required and acquired for his or her practice. We know of pseudo-translations and of fictional translators, oftentimes brilliant literary impersonations, but what of the mostly invisible translator, in many walks of life, briefly impersonating authors in order to produce more or less evanescent impersonations of the source texts they have been trusted with? What can we learn from thinking about translation in these terms?
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  THE TRANSLATOR AS THEORIST?

  Vol. 1 No. 2 (2009)

  In a field where theory has always emerged out of practice, this “curiously placeless place of the translator” (Kelly and Johnston) seems a fertile and not-often-discussed perspective, an approach from the inside-out rather than the more commonly discussed issues of the role of the translator or translation from the outside looking in. Beyond the biographical and anecdotal we invite contributions from translators and translation scholars interested in reflecting upon, as in, looking on or contemplating, in the etymological sense of theory, translation activities. Topics might include, but are not limited to, the translator's particular approach to the other--of respect and awareness of separateness yet communality; the translator's tendency for passive empathy; the layered inter-subjectivity of the translation process; in fact, the "humanist" worldview a translator necessarily holds, consciously or not.
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  WAR AND PEACE: TRANSLATION AS CONFLICT, RESISTANCE, AND RESOLUTION

  Vol. 1 No. 1 (2008)