Debates in Translation Studies

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Susan Bassnett is a writer and scholar of comparative literature and translation studies. She is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Glasgow, and Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of Warwick.

David Johnston is Professor of Translation in the Centre for Translation and Interpreting at Queen's University Belfast.

Zusammenfassung
This collection of essays by world-leading translation specialists sheds light on some of the major shifts in thinking about translation that are taking place today. Written in an accessible and engaging style, this is essential reading for all advanced students of translation studies and literature in translation.

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Introduction

David Johnston and Susan Bassnett

1: How New are Today's Debates about Translation?

Susan Bassnett

2: Spacious Translations

Federico Italiano

3: Translation and Trauma

Sharon Deane-Cox

4: Reparative Translation and Activism

Paul Bandia

5: The Translational Rift. Decolonising the Anthropocene

Michael Cronin

6: Technologies and the Future of Translation: Two Perspectives

Dorothy Kenny

7: Translation and Datafication

Neil Sadler

8: The Anxiety of Representation: Translation Studies in China

Lisha Xu

9: The Word Stuck in the Throat: The Necessary Destabilisation of the Multicultural Encounter in Translation

Catherine Boyle

10: The Judgement of the Translator

Sarah Maitland

11: Travel and Gender in Translation: The Case of Isabelle Eberhardt

Loredana Polezzi

12: Translation and News reporting

Roberto Valdeon