Table des matières

Acknowledgements

Georges L. Bastin et Paul F. Bandia

Introduction

• Methodology
• Current discourses

Methodology

Julio-César Santoyo Mediavilla

Blank Spaces in the History of Translation

• Oral translation or interpretation
• The daily practice of translation
• Pseudo-translations
• Self-translations
• Forgotten texts
• Translated texts as survivors of lost originals
• Mistakes
• The role played by translation in History

Paul F. Bandia

The Impact of Postmodern Discourse on the History of Translation

• Introduction
• Reflections on methodology
• Deconstructionism and translation history
• History as deconstruction
• Interventionist writing of translation history
• Postmodernity and contemporary translation studies
• Conclusion

Reine Meylaerts

Conceptualizing the Translator as a Historical Subject in Multilingual Environments

A Challenge for Descriptive Translation Studies?

• Geography and/versus habitus?
• Who has the right to be(come) a translator?
• Who has the obligation/mission to remain a translator?
• "Sources" and "targets": are they irrelevant then?

Sergia Adamo

Microhistory of Translation

• Historical awareness
• New objects of study
• In dialogue with the past
• Sources and archives
• The content of the form
• Conclusion

Jesús Baigorri-Jalón

Perspectives on the History of Interpretation

Research Proposals

• State of affairs
• Research suggestions
• The place of history of translation and interpreting in training programs
• Conclusions

Georges L. Bastin

Subjectivity and Rigour in Translation History

The Case of Latin America

• Review of methodology
• State of the question in Latin America
• General principles for a history of Latin American culture
• Orientations for a history of translation
• Conclusion

Clara Foz

Translation, History and the Translation Scholar

• 1. Role of history
• a. Historia a Debate website
• b. History in the history of translation
• 2. Periodization

Current Discourses

Claire-Hélène Lavigne

Literalness and Legal Translation

Myth and False Premises

• Introduction
• Possible origin of the myth
• Corpus Iuris Civilis and its authority during the Middle Ages
• Verse translation by Richard d'Annebaut
• Prologue and epilogue
• Use of synonyms
• Analysis of sections 1.1 (introductory paragraph), 1.1.1 and 4.18.4
• Conclusion

Marilyn Gaddis Rose

The Role of Translation in History

The Case of Malraux

Nitsa Ben-Ari

Puritan Translations in Israel

Rewriting a History of Translation

• Introduction
• The new Hebrew
• Victorian puritanism
• Norms of representation in central literature
• Marginal alternatives: pulp fiction and sex guides
• Repertoire dwindling
• Conclusion

Chantal Gagnon

Ideologies in the History of Translation

A Case Study of Canadian Political Speeches

• Introduction
• Corpus and theoretical framework
• Description of translation shifts
• Discussion of results
• The prime minister and his fellow citizens
• About Canada and Canadians
• Conclusion

Jo-Anne Elder

Keepers of the Stories

The Role of the Translator in Preserving Histories

• Robert Bringhurst and human literary history
• The translator's body of work
• Reshaping, restoring, retrieving histories
• Keeper of the language
• Keeping the stories safe

James St. André

"Long Time No See, Coolie"

Passing as Chinese through Translation

• Smith's translation: Speaking "Chinese" in English
• Nineteenth-century translations as precursors
• Metacommentary in the translations and pseudo-translations
• Translation as passing
• Conclusion

Lourdes Arencibia Rodriguez

The Imperial College of Santa Cruz de Tlatelolco

The First School of Translators and Interpreters in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America

• Location and origin
• Ideological background
• Selection of students
• Problems encountered and teaching orientation

Lydia Fossa

Glosas croniquenses: A Synchronic Bilingual (American Indigenous Languages – Spanish) Set of Glossaries

• Theoretical foundations
• Objectives
• Description
• The project's development

Christine York

Translating the New World in Jean de Léry's

Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Brésil

• The voyage and Léry's account
• The wonder of the New World
• Writing and the Tupi language
• "Foreignization" in travel and ethnographic texts
• Naming the New World

Juan Miguel Zarandona

Amadis of Gaul (1803) and Chronicle of the Cid (1808) by Robert Southey

The Medieval History of Spain Translated

• Introduction
• About Robert Southey and his translations
• a. Causation
• b. The translator and his social entourage
• c. The target culture
• d. The present
• e. Robert Southey's views on translation
• The impressive wealth of Southey's Hispanic and Portuguese collection
• Amadis of Gaul: A domesticating experience
• Chronicle of the Cid: A blending experience
• Conclusions

Contributors

Index