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Translating Holocaust Lives (Paperback)
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Translating Holocaust Lives (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Advances in Translation
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For readers in the English-speaking world, almost all Holocaust
writing is translated writing. Translation is indispensable for our
understanding of the Holocaust because there is a need to tell
others what happened in a way that makes events and experiences
accessible - if not, perhaps, comprehensible - to other
communities. Yet what this means is only beginning to be explored
by Translation Studies scholars. This book aims to bring together
the insights of Translation Studies and Holocaust Studies in order
to show what a critical understanding of translation in practice
and context can contribute to our knowledge of the legacy of the
Holocaust. The role translation plays is not just as a facilitator
of a semi-transparent transfer of information. Holocaust writing
involves questions about language, truth and ethics, and a
theoretically informed understanding of translation adds to these
questions by drawing attention to processes of mediation and
reception in cultural and historical context. It is important to
examine how writing by Holocaust victims, which is closely tied to
a specific language and reflects on the relationship between
language, experience and thought, can (or cannot) be translated.
This volume brings the disciplines of Holocaust and Translation
Studies into an encounter with each other in order to explore the
effects of translation on Holocaust writing. The individual pieces
by Holocaust scholars explore general, theoretical questions and
individual case studies, and are accompanied by commentaries by
translation scholars.
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