Postcolonial Polysystems

Author : Haidee Kruger
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027224552

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Postcolonial Polysystems by Haidee Kruger Pdf

"Postcolonial Polysystems: The Production and Reception of Translated Children s Literature in South Africa" is an original and provocative contribution to the field of children s literature research and translation studies. It draws on a variety of methodologies to provide a perspective, both product- and process-oriented, on the ways in which translation contributes to the production of children s literature in South Africa, with a special interest in language and power, as well as post- and neocolonial hybridity. The book explores the forces that affect the use of translation in producing children s literature in various languages in South Africa, and shows how some of these forces precipitate in the selection, production and reception of translated children s books in Afrikaans and English. It breaks new ground in its interrogation of aspects of translation theory within the multilingual and postcolonial context of South Africa, as well as in its innovative experimental investigation of the reception of domesticating and foreignising strategies in translated picture books. The book has won the 2013 EST Young Scholar Prize."

Author : Karen Coats,Deborah Stevenson,Vivian Yenika-Agbaw
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 599 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119038252

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A Companion to Children's Literature by Karen Coats,Deborah Stevenson,Vivian Yenika-Agbaw Pdf

A COMPANION TO CHILDREN'S LITERATURE A collection of international, up-to-date, and diverse perspectives on children's literary criticism A Companion to Children's Literature offers students and scholars studying children's literature, education, and youth librarianship an incisive and expansive collection of essays that discuss key debates within children's literature criticism. The thirty-four works included demonstrate a diverse array of perspectives from around the world, introduce emerging scholars to the field of children's literature criticism, and meaningfully contribute to the scholarly conversation. The essays selected by the editors present a view of children's literature that encompasses poetry, fiction, folklore, nonfiction, dramatic stage and screen performances, picturebooks, and interactive and digital media. They range from historical overviews to of-the-moment critical theory about children’s books from across the globe. A Companion to Children's Literature explores some of the earliest works in children's literature, key developments in the genre from the 20th century, and the latest trends and texts in children's information books, postmodern fairytales, theatre, plays, and more. This collection also discusses methods for reading children's literature, from social justice critiques of popular stories to Black critical theory in the context of children's literary analysis.

Author : Gillian Lathey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317621300

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Translating Children's Literature by Gillian Lathey Pdf

Translating Children’s Literature is an exploration of the many developmental and linguistic issues related to writing and translating for children, an audience that spans a period of enormous intellectual progress and affective change from birth to adolescence. Lathey looks at a broad range of children’s literature, from prose fiction to poetry and picture books. Each of the seven chapters addresses a different aspect of translation for children, covering: · Narrative style and the challenges of translating the child’s voice; · The translation of cultural markers for young readers; · Translation of the modern picture book; · Dialogue, dialect and street language in modern children’s literature; · Read-aloud qualities, wordplay, onomatopoeia and the translation of children’s poetry; · Retranslation, retelling and reworking; · The role of translation for children within the global publishing and translation industries. This is the first practical guide to address all aspects of translating children’s literature, featuring extracts from commentaries and interviews with published translators of children’s literature, as well as examples and case studies across a range of languages and texts. Each chapter includes a set of questions and exercises for students. Translating Children’s Literature is essential reading for professional translators, researchers and students on courses in translation studies or children’s literature.

Author : Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000984521

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The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture by Claudia Nelson,Elisabeth Wesseling,Andrea Mei-Ying Wu Pdf

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship, The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print, digital, and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations. Offering five distinct sections, this volume: Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children’s literature Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children Considers the production, distribution, and valuing of children’s books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives, highlighting context as a driver of content Maps how children’s texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers, sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author’s identity, sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed “other,” and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children’s literature, highlighting issues such as retranslation, transnationalism, transculturality, and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children’s literature Methodically presented and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field.

Author : Stefan Baumgarten,Jordi Cornellà-Detrell
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788921831

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Translation and Global Spaces of Power by Stefan Baumgarten,Jordi Cornellà-Detrell Pdf

This book focuses on the role of translation in a globalising world. It presents a series of case studies that explore the ways in which translation is subject to ideology and power play across diverging domains and genres. Broadly based on a discussion of 'translation and the economies of power', the chapters examine an array of contextual and textual factors, ranging from global, regional and institutional power relations to the linguistic, stylistic and rhetorical implications of translation decisions. The book maps the multiple ways in which power relations and ideological positions affect cross-cultural communication, with special reference to repressive practices in history, translation policies, media power and commercial hegemonies. It concludes that future translation research will benefit from a more sustained emphasis on the power of technology and economic capital.

Author : Douglas Robinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000763539

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Becoming a Translator by Douglas Robinson Pdf

Fusing theory with advice and information about the practicalities of translating, Becoming a Translator is the essential resource for novice and practicing translators. The book explains how the market works, helps translators learn how to translate faster and more accurately, as well as providing invaluable advice and tips about how to deal with potential problems, such as stress. The fourth edition has been revised and updated throughout, offering: a whole new chapter on multimedia translation, with a discussion of the move from "intersemiotic translation" to "audiovisual translation," "media access" and "accessibility studies" new sections on cognitive translation studies, translation technology, online translator communities, crowd-sourced translation, and online ethnography "tweetstorms" capturing the best advice from top industry professionals on Twitter student voices, especially from Greater China Including suggestions for discussion, activities, and hints for the teaching of translation, and drawing on detailed advice from top translation professionals, the fourth edition of Becoming a Translator remains invaluable for students and teachers of Translation Studies, as well as those working in the field of translation.

Author : Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margeret Iverson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0719048761

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Colonial Discourse/ Postcolonial Theory by Francis Barker,Peter Hulme,Margeret Iverson Pdf

This book on post-colonial theory has a wide geographic range and a breadth of historical perspectives. Central to the book is a critique of the very idea of the 'postcolonial' itself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Africa
ISBN : IOWA:31858070305879

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African Research & Documentation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nalini Persram
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0739116673

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Postcolonialism and Political Theory by Nalini Persram Pdf

Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics, to turn towards a multiplicity--largely excluded from globally dominant discourses of community, subjectivity, power and prosperity--constituted by otherness, radical alterity, or subordination to the newly reconsolidated West. The book offers a diverse range of essays that re-examine and open the boundaries of political and cultural modernity's historical domain; that look at how the racialized and gendered and cultured subject visualizes the social from elsewhere; that critique the limits of postcolonial theory and its claim to celebrate diversity; and that complicate the notion of postcolonial politics within settler societies that continue to practice exile of the indigenous. Postcolonialism and Political Theory is an ideal book for graduate and advanced undergraduate level study and for those working both disciplinarily and interdisciplinarily, both inside and outside academia.

Author : Henry Schwarz,Sangeeta Ray
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470998335

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A Companion to Postcolonial Studies by Henry Schwarz,Sangeeta Ray Pdf

This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947. Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale

Author : Jenni Ramone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230344075

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Postcolonial Theories by Jenni Ramone Pdf

Postcolonial Theories is a lively introduction to postcolonial theories, contexts and literatures which presents both the theory and practice to students in approachable and attractive ways. Jenni Ramone includes discussion of a wide range of influential theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Rey Chow, Edward Said, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Paul Gilroy and Trinh T. Minh-ha. She also demonstrates postcolonial ideas through compelling readings of a wide range of exciting literary texts, including: - Nawal El Saadawi's God Dies by the Nile - Aravind Adiga's The White Tiger - Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy - Jamaica Kincaid's My Brother. Covering a diverse array of geographical locations, and featuring a helpful timeline and annotated bibliography, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in postcolonial theories and how they have continued to adapt in the wake of globalization, digital technology and neo-colonialism.

Author : Benita Parry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781134307401

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Postcolonial Studies by Benita Parry Pdf

This powerful selection of essays proposes practices of reading and criticism to make the field of postcolonial studies more fully attentive to historical circumstances and socio-material conditions. Benita Parry points to 'directions and dead ends' in the discipline she has helped to shape, with a first series of essays vigorously challenging colonial discourse theory and postcolonialism as we have known them. She then turns to literature with a series of detailed readings that not only demonstrate her theoretical position at work, but also give new dimensions to widely studied texts by Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells and E. M. Forster. Parry argues throughout that the material impulses of colonialism, its appropriation of physical resources, exploitation of human labour and institutional repression have too long been allowed to recede from view.

Author : Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780415153041

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Key Concepts in Post-colonial Studies by Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin Pdf

An essential guide to understanding the issues which characterize post-colonialism. A comprehensive glossary has extensive cross-referencing, a bibliography of essential writings and an easy-to-use A-Z format.

Author : Kostas Myrsiades,Jerry McGuire
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791426408

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Order and Partialities by Kostas Myrsiades,Jerry McGuire Pdf

Looks at the political and cultural issues involved in teaching postcolonial literatures and theories.

Author : Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135039745

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Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts by Bill Ashcroft,Gareth Griffiths,Helen Tiffin Pdf

This hugely popular A-Z guide provides a comprehensive overview of the issues which characterize post-colonialism: explaining what it is, where it is encountered and the crucial part it plays in debates about race, gender, politics, language and identity. For this third edition over thirty new entries have been added including: Cosmopolitanism Development Fundamentalism Nostalgia Post-colonial cinema Sustainability Trafficking World Englishes. Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts remains an essential guide for anyone studying this vibrant field.