Translation and gender : translating in the "era of feminism / Luise von Flotow.
Material type: TextSeries: Translation theories explained ; 2.Publisher: Manchester [England] : Ottawa : St. Jerome Pub. ; University of Ottawa Press, 1997Description: 114 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0776604481
- 9780776604480
- 1900650053
- 9781900650052
- Translating in the "era of feminism"
- 418.033054 23
- P306.2 .V65 1997
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-114).
Preface -- 1. Historical Background -- The Women's Movement and the Idea of Gender -- Women and Language -- Gender and Translation -- 2. Gender and the Practice of Translation -- Experimental Feminist Writing and its Translation -- Translating the Body -- Translating Puns on Cultural References -- Translating Experiments with Language -- Interventionist Feminist Translation -- Translating Machismo -- Assertive Feminist Translation -- Recovering Women's Works 'Lost' in Patriarchy -- Further Corrective Measures -- 3. Revising Theories and Myths -- Proliferating Prefaces: The Translator's Sense of Self -- Asserting the Translator's Identity -- Claiming Responsibility for 'Meaning' -- Revising the Rhetoric of Translation -- Tropes -- Achieving Political Visibility -- Revising a Fundamental Myth -- Pandora's Cornucopia -- 4. Rereading and Rewriting Translations -- Reading Existing Translations -- Simone de Beauvoir -- Rewriting Existing Translations -- The Bible -- Comparing 'Pre-feminist' and 'Post-feminist' Translations -- Sappho and Louise Labe -- Recovering 'Lost' Women Translators -- Subversive Activity in the English Renaissance -- Nineteenth-Century Women Translators -- La Malinche -- 5. Criticisms -- Criticism from Outside Feminisms -- Criticism from Within Feminisms -- Elitist Experimentation -- Opportunist Feminist Bandwagon -- 'Being Democratic with Minorities' -- Revealing Women's Cultural and Political Diversity -- 6. Future Perspectives -- Broad Historical Perspectives -- Contemporary Perspectives -- Public Language Policies -- Interpreting -- 7. Concluding Remarks -- Glossary -- Bibliographical References.
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